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.
Advanced Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology
This course focuses on the formulation, characterisation and evaluation of novel pharmaceutical delivery systems based on nanotechnology.
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Advanced knowledge in symptom management in Palliative Care
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Advancing Care for People with Continence Disorders
Enabling students from a variety of disciplines to increase their knowledge in relation to the advancement of effective and proactive continence care.
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Advancing Care for People with Stoma
Enables the student to carefully consider a range of issues related to advancing care for people with a stoma across the lifespan
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Advancing Care for People with Urological Disorders
Assists the student to identify ways in which they can act as a positive force for the advancement of well-being in people with urological disorders
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Assessment of Perinatal Mental Health and Wellbeing
This module will provide students with the skills to complete an assessment of the MH needs of pregnant women and new mothers.
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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.
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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.
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Community Nurse Practitioner Prescribing V150 L7
Prepares safe and effective Community Nurse Prescribers who are competent to prescribe from the Nurse Prescribers Formulary for Community Prescribers
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Community Planning and Delivery Outcomes
The course explores community planning from different perspectives in terms of integrated service provision.
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Construction Legal Studies
This course focuses on fundamental aspects of law and contractual procedures affecting professional practice in the construction industry.
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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.
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Corporate Law
This course provides an understanding of legal concepts, principles and rules relevant to businesses, and the skills needed to apply them.
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Critical Event Studies
This course critically examines the wider environment in which event organisers must plan and manage their event.
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Digital Marketing Communications
This course provides knowledge on how digital marketing communications can develop marketing and business decision-making.
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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.
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Emergency Planning, Response and Resilience
This course provides core knowledge and understanding of the key concepts and lifecycle stages of emergency planning, response and resilience.
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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.
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Entrepreneurship
This course aims to build awareness of entrepreneurship as a theoretical concept and a practical reality.
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Environmental Impact Assessment
This course introduces environmental impact assessment, the methodology of carrying out an environmental audit and environmental management systems.
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Foundations in Management
This course introduces participants to the subject of management, organisational structures and strategy.
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Foundations of International Human Rights Law
This course gives participants an overview of the primary treaty regimes and institutions which underpin the international human rights regime.
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Foundations of Peace and Conflict Studies
This course provides an advanced introduction to key concepts, ideas and debates in this field of study of peace and conflict studies.
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Foundations of Transitional Justice
This course introduces participants to the aims of transitional justice and the main transitional justice measures that seek to respond to mass abuse.
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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
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GIS in Business and Society
This course introduces GIS relevant management and decision making concepts in business and society.
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Global Business
This short course focuses on firm internationalisation and the key issues that affect marketing decisions in an international and global context.
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Global Marketing
This course covers a range of concepts, issues and practices that are relevant to the study of global marketing.
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Health Assessment and Clinical Reasoning
Develop and enhance the student knowledge base and practice of health assessment and facilitate the development of problem solving skills
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Health Communication
This course will provide the conceptual understanding of and an overview of the current issues within health communication.
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Hydrogen Safety Technologies
This course focuses on advances in hydrogen safety technologies, including but not limited to prevention and mitigation strategies.
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Inclusive Engagement Methods for Communities
This course focuses on designing and delivering inclusive engagement opportunities to empower communities.
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Infrastructure Finance and Investment
This course examines the strategic importance of infrastructure investment in terms of creating and maintaining sustainable and vibrant growth.
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Innovation in Practice
This short course explores organisational innovation from an operational or practice perspective as a key aspect of business development.
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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.
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Integrative Holistic Forensic Healthcare Practice
Aims to develop the student's knowledge and systematic understanding of integrative holistic concepts, theories and practices
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International Competitiveness
This applied course focuses on the role of the strategic management process to create competitiveness within a global environment.
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Managing and Leading People
This short course aims to enable participants to acquire an understanding of organisations and the behaviour which occurs within them.
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Marketing Management
This course provides an advanced understanding of how marketing can be managed from both practical and theoretical perspectives.
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Motivational Interviewing for Practice
Provides the student with the necessary knowledge and values that underpin MI, and introduce them to the skills of practicing it.
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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.
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Pollution Monitoring
This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to monitor pollution of the environment.
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Principles of Forensic Healthcare Practice
Develops the students' decisions making skills and assessment of risk to work safely and effectively in forensic healthcare settings.
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Principles of GIS
This course introduces the theory and practice of GIS (Geographic Information Systems).
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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.
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Principles of Working with People with Learning Disabilities who display Challenging Behaviour
Provides the student with the necessary knowledge and skills required to understand what challenging behaviour is
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Principles of assessing people with learning disabilities and mental health problems
Provides the student with the necessary knowledge and skills to work under supervision in assessing/screening an individual with a learning disability
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Procurement of Infrastructure and Major Projects
This course contextualises the infrastructure deficit and critically appraises the innovative approaches to procuring infrastructure.
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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.
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Project Management in Construction
This course introduces the concepts of project management, examines the recognised practices involved in the project management function.
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Regulation and Compliance
This course provides an understanding of the regulatory compliance issues critical to a role in financial services in the 21st Century.
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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.
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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.
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Spirometry for Healthcare Professionals
This will equip you to accurately produce & critically analyse the interpretation of spirometry readings, leading to an accurate diagnosis & treatment
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Sports, Management and the Law
This course will enable participants to see the interconnections between sport business and the law.
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Strategy
This short course is designed to introduce participants to the key concepts in business strategy in the context of the global economy.
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Strategy and Innovation
This course focuses on strategy and particularly on innovation and business development using innovative business modelling techniques.
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Technology and Internet Law
This course covers legal, technological, and policy developments related to the business of law and professional services.
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The Digital Consumer
This course identifies how an online digital communication strategy can enable an organisation to critically evaluate online performance.
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The Fundamentals of Adult Continence Promotion
To develop and enhance knowledge in relation to proactive, person-centered continence management
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The Fundamentals of Stoma Care - Level 7
Helps healthcare professionals to identify how they can play an increasingly influential role in assisting the person living with a stoma
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The Fundamentals of Urology - Level 7
Assisting healthcare professionals to play a greater role in urological care
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Tourism and Hospitality Principles
This course provides participants with the necessary base of the key principles of tourism and hospitality.
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Water Management
This course provides an opportunity for participants to develop their understanding of processes in the environment and in water treatment.
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Web-based GIS
This course provides an introduction to web-based GIS using a range of languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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Wind Energy Conversion Technologies
This course will introduce participants to wind energy theory and technology, resource assessment and wind farm site development.
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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.