Consultancy

We offer consultancy opportunities for a wide range of subjects and educational issues, with related accreditation possibilities where appropriate. For example:

• helping to develop focused, in-house staff development (e.g. supervision consultation and training and for community-based middle managers and team leaders)
• providing training for educational staff development (e.g. assertiveness skills and time management training for teachers and support staff)
• accrediting existing staff development programmes (e.g. training the trainer programmes for local authorities)
• helping and advising institutions to introduce new practices (e.g. designing initial training programmes for youth support workers).

Consultancy work aims to provide immediate responses to current workforce issues. The School of Education is fortunate to be able to draw upon the wealth of experience and expertise amongst its core teaching and research staff as well as the number of practitioners and managers who work with us as associate staff.

When considering consultancy undertaken by the School of Education, the following list of possible activities might be useful:

• service and policy consultancy and development
• organisational, service and/or client needs analysis
• project consultancy
• project evaluation
• coaching and mentoring
• team development
• action learning sets
• group supervision
• change management consultancy
• assessment and accreditation of learning
• community development and widening participation
• student/client voice
• critical and reflective practice development
• short courses.