Postgraduate Short Courses
We offer a range of postgraduate short courses which can be taken individually or combined over a period of time towards a Postgraduate Certificate of Professional Development.
We offer a range of postgraduate short courses which can be taken individually or combined over a period of time towards a Postgraduate Certificate of Professional Development.
Each short course is worth credit points. Details of credit points are available on the information about each short course.
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The Postgraduate Certificate of Professional Development is awarded when a combination of short courses worth 60 credit points in total have been successfully completed.
You can choose to complete one short course and then return to take a further course at a later stage (any credits will be retained for you). To maintain currency, it is recommended that combinations of short courses leading to the award of the Postgraduate Certificate of Professional Development are completed within a five year timeframe.
Short courses are also available in a range of different formats to help meet the flexibility required by those currently in employment such as block (three full consecutive days during one week), weekly (morning, afternoons or evenings), staggered (three or four days across a twelve week semester) or online (with no need to attend a University campus).
Payments for each short course can also be made over a number of months.
Please contact us if you want to find out any further information about any of the short courses available.
View course page for Advanced Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology
This course focuses on the formulation, characterisation and evaluation of novel pharmaceutical delivery systems based on nanotechnology.
View course page for Attitudes, Health and Well-being
This short course will explore the biopsychosocial model of health, advocated by health psychologists.
View course page for Biodiversity Management
This course aims to provide the scientific knowledge and skills necessary for understanding and implementing biodiversity management.
View course page for Biomass Process & Technologies
This course introduces participants to the diverse sources, technologies and applications of energy from biomass.
View course page for Built Asset Management
This course covers how built asset management translates organisational objectives into property-related decisions, plans and actions.
View course page for Business Practice and Commercial Awareness in Pharmacy
This course aims to critically evaluate, develop and apply business practice and commercial awareness in the marketing of pharmaceutical services.
View course page for Business Sustainability and Innovation
This course focuses on the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in the wider context of business sustainability and the triple bottom line.
View course page for Construction Legal Studies
This course provides knowledge to enhance understanding of fundamental principles and key aspects of law and contractual procedures.
View course page for Contemporary Issues in Tourism and Hospitality
The aim of this course is to equip participants with the ability to address and critique issues that are of relevance to both tourism and hospitality.
View course page for Contract Communication and Dispute Management
This course provides an insight into claims management and the consequences of failing to resolve issues that can escalate into a dispute.
View course page for Corporate Law
This course provides an understanding of legal concepts, principles and rules relevant to businesses, and the skills needed to apply them.
View course page for Critical Event Studies
This course critically examines the wider environment in which event organisers must plan and manage their event.
View course page for Digital Marketing Communications
This course provides knowledge on how digital marketing communications can develop marketing and business decision-making.
View course page for Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is concerned with the changes digital technologies can bring to an organisation's business model.
View course page for Drug Discovery, Development and Delivery
This course focuses on understanding of the processes involved from drug discovery and development to how the drugs are brought to the market place.
View course page for Energy Management
This course provides an introduction into how energy is measured, techniques for saving energy and how to influence those around us in saving energy.
View course page for Energy Policy, Markets and Economics
This course is designed to meet a need for engineers and energy professionals to deliver energy conscious and environmentally sustainable solutions.
View course page for Entrepreneurship
This course aims to build awareness of entrepreneurship as a theoretical concept and a practical reality.
View course page for Environmental Data Analysis
This short course introduces participants to information technology and presentation skills relevant to the environmental manager/researcher.
View course page for Environmental Toxicology
This course provides knowledge and skills necessary to understand the impact of chemicals in the environment.
View course page for Event Management
This course introduces participants to the events industry, the event planning process and the complexities involved in organising events.
View course page for Executive Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching and mentoring can be used as powerful leadership skills in motivating, delegating, team development, managing change and staff engagement.
View course page for Foundations in Management
This course introduces participants to the subject of management, organisational structures and strategy.
View course page for GIS Databases
This course examines the methods by which data can be stored, accessed and manipulated in order to provide high quality databases for GI Systems
View course page for GIS in Business and Society
This course introduces GIS relevant management and decision making concepts in business and society.
View course page for Global Business
This short course focuses on firm internationalisation and the key issues that affect marketing decisions in an international and global context.
View course page for Health Psychology Interventions and Behaviour change
This short course explores how psychological theories and models of behaviour change are applied to intervention strategies to maintain well-being.
View course page for Hydrogen Safety Technologies
This course focuses on advances in hydrogen safety technologies, including but not limited to prevention and mitigation strategies.
View course page for Infrastructure Finance and Investment
This course examines the strategic importance of infrastructure investment in terms of creating and maintaining sustainable and vibrant growth.
View course page for Innovation in Practice
This short course explores organisational innovation from an operational or practice perspective as a key aspect of business development.
View course page for Instrumental Methods in Pharmaceutical Sciences
This course provides participants with the ability to select and apply appropriate methods and instrumentation for quality control/quality assurance.
View course page for International Competitiveness
This applied course focuses on the role of the strategic management process to create competitiveness within a global environment.
View course page for Managing and Leading People
The aim of this course is to provide participants with a comprehensive framework of knowledge concerning the management and leadership of people.
View course page for Marketing Management
This course provides an advanced understanding of how marketing can be managed from both practical and theoretical perspectives.
View course page for Organisation & Management: Thinking Differently
This course focuses on the application of organisation and management theory to construction projects.
View course page for Pharmacy Practice in the Republic of Ireland
This course provides understanding of the legislative and practice requirements, relating to the practice of pharmacy in the Republic of Ireland.
View course page for Principles of GIS
This course introduces the theory and practice of GIS (Geographic Information Systems).
View course page for Principles of Hydrogen Safety
This course focuses on the fundamentals of hydrogen safety applicable to existing and foreseeable hydrogen and fuel cell systems and infrastructure.
View course page for Procurement of Infrastructure and Major Projects
This course contextualises the infrastructure deficit and critically appraises the innovative approaches to procuring infrastructure.
View course page for Project Leadership for Construction Professionals
This course is designed to allow participants to master the twin tracks of managing a construction project and leading a business organisation.
View course page for Project Management in Construction
This course introduces the concepts of project management, examines the recognised practices involved in the project management function.
View course page for Psychology of Health Promotion
This short course will explore how psychological theory contributes to our understanding of health and illness.
View course page for Remote Sensing
This course addresses the scope of remotely-sensed images as another source of GIS data as well as extending mutual benefits of data integration.
View course page for Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Processes and Technologies
The aim of this course is to appreciate, analyse and evaluate current solar thermal and solar photovoltaic technologies.
View course page for Sports, Management and the Law
This course will enable participants to see the interconnections between sport business and the law.
View course page for Strategy
This short course is designed to introduce participants to the key concepts in business strategy in the context of the global economy.
View course page for Strategy and Innovation
This course focuses on strategy and particularly on innovation and business development using innovative business modelling techniques.
View course page for Technology and Internet Law
This course covers legal, technological, and policy developments related to the business of law and professional services.
View course page for Tourism and Hospitality Principles
This course provides participants with the necessary base of the key principles of tourism and hospitality.
View course page for Web-based GIS
This course provides an introduction to web-based GIS using a range of languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
View course page for Wind Energy Conversion Technologies
This course will introduce participants to wind energy theory and technology, resource assessment and wind farm site development.
View course page for Zoonoses and Public Health
This course focuses on a comprehensive, detailed and systematic understanding of the impact of zoonoses on public health and pharmacy practice.