Graduate Diploma Health
- International students can apply
This course is delivered through modules using a variety of teaching methods including lectures, student led seminars, independent learning, portfolio development, action learning sets, language and study skills laboratory exercises.
The key features of this course are:
- Teaching and learning is focused on the advancement of your personal, professional and academic development
- Continuous expert support provided by specialist English Language teachers, through the use of contextualised materials
- Continuous information literacy support (study skills) provided by specialist information literacy staff.
The course is full-time, Monday to Friday.
Assessment
A range of formative and summative assessments will cater for your individual learning style, these include:
- Speaking presentation
- Written presentation
- Individual written project
- Reflective essay
- Written assignment
- Peer assessment
- Compiling a portfolio of experience.
Staff Profile
Course Leader Lyn Rosen’s focus on academic and pedagogic development is related to innovating curriculum development with the use of flexible and open teaching, learning and assessment strategies. Her expertise in work-based learning has been utilised in National Health Service Trusts and Primary Care Trusts for the development of clinical and managerial staff using real life work-based projects.
Dr Debbie Roberts’s main research interests focus on nurse education, and she has expertise in clinical learning, peer learning, reflective practice, high-fidelity clinical simulation and problem based learning.
Dr Karen Staniland is involved with the promotion of flexible, work-based learning and e-learning in nursing. Her main research interests lie in healthcare quality improvement in relation to clinical governance and the essence of care and she is currently engaged in sociological research on pandemic influenza.
Dr Christine Hogg’s research interests and expertise include working with people who self-harm, working with women with eating disorders, transcultural issues in nursing and health care, education and practice and Lay beliefs about health and illness.
Dr Naomi Sharples is a dual qualified nurse with a background in Mental Health and Deafness. Her research has focused on linguistics, deafness, communication, leadership, management and diversity.