FREE CPD Virtual Summer School open for bookings
14 March 2022
Our Virtual Summer School is filled with free sessions from the University’s Research Centres and Institutes to support your professional development.
We are thrilled to announce that our free virtual CPD programme is back for its third year!
For 2022's Virtual Summer School we've teamed up with several of the University's research institutes and centres to bring you a curated programme of webinars showcasing the exciting and innovating work taking place - and how this research can translate into helping you improving your professional skills and knowledge.
We have worked with research institutes and centres to create sessions exploring critical success factors to rescue, revive and renew following the COVID-19 pandemic, and which look at areas of up-skilling, re-skilling and new-skilling.
We have 14 sessions available to book, including sessions on topics as diverse as electric vehicles, the impact of the creative economy, and the mysterious world of semiconductors.
Our Summer School runs from 13 to 23 June, and is completely free to attend. Registrations are now closed for this programme.
Week 1: 13 - 17 June
| Session | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
THE SHOCK OF THE NEW: JOBS AND SKILLS IN OUR ELECTRIC MOBILITY FUTURE Professor Peter Wells | Centre for Automotive Industry Research | MONDAY 13 JUNE 09:00 - 10:00 | This session is on the jobs to be created (and lost) and the skills needed throughout the sale, service, and repair sectors in the new normal of electric cars in everyday use. |
THE ‘THINCS’ BEHAVIOURAL MARKER SYSTEM: AN ASSESSMENT TOOL TO SUPPORT SAFE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE INCIDENT COMMAND Dr Philip Butler | THINCS research project | TUESDAY 14 JUNE 11:00 - 11:45 | THINCS is a behavioural marker system that was co-produced with the National Fire Chiefs Council. It is an assessment tool that measures the performance of social, cognitive, and personal skills vital for safe FRS incident command. A journey through its development, evaluation and impact will highlight the research and detail the system and its app. |
INNOVATION IN SOCIAL CARE: PARADOXES, CHALLENGES AND CREATING AN ENABLING CULTURE Alexis Pala | Y Lab Babs Lewis and Robert Jamieson | People Powered Results, Nesta Stephanie Griffith | Social Care Wales | TUESDAY 14 JUNE 13:00 - 14:00 | Join Social Care Wales, People Powered Results at Nesta and Y Lab of Cardiff University to learn about our joint approach to delivering research into supporting innovation and explore our preliminary findings with us. People in Wales with energy and ideas are finding new ways to deliver meaningful social care. Now more than ever, innovation is needed to help deal with the ongoing impacts of the pandemic. In early 2022, the named speakers did some discovery work to better understand what innovation is already happening in Wales, who is already in this space, how can we bring new people along with us, and how can we better support innovators to grow, scale and spread new ways of doing things that enable people live their best life without compromising future generations? This session will share our approach to answering these questions, what was revealed, and what has been done since. |
THE EXCITING WORLD OF DATA SCIENCE! Professor Alexander Balinksy | School of Mathematics Dr Debbie Cooper | Office for National Statistics | WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE 11:00 - 12:00 | Data science can be applied to help solve so many challenges of our modern world, making it an exciting area in which to work. This session, hosted jointly by Cardiff University and the Office for National Statistics, will talk you through a specific example of data science in application and the opportunities available to up-skill and re-skill in the field. |
COLLABS: NOT JUST FOR INFLUENCERS Dr Jack Underwood | Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute | THURSDAY 16 JUNE 11:00 - 11:30 | Collaboration is the backbone of scientific research, but it doesn’t just extend to academia and universities. This session will explore the mutual benefits to charities, companies and third sector organisations of collaborating on research projects, and how skills can be exchanged to help everyone achieve success. |
EXPLORING THE DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTE CONSULTATION SKILLS IN HEALTHCARE TRAINING Dr Dorottya Cserzo | Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education | FRIDAY 17 JUNE 11:00 - 12:00 | This session introduces a planned research project examining the development of remote consultation skills in healthcare training. The session will begin by reviewing the literature about consultations skills training and remote consultation. In the second half the speaker will invite views and opinions on current thinking. |
DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC AND PATIENT INVOLVEMENT (PPI) IN CLINICAL TRIALS RESEARCH Peter Gee, Julie Hepburn | Health and Care Research Wales Professor Oliver Ottmann | Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC) | FRIDAY 17 JUNE 13:00 - 14:30 | This session will provide an overview of PPI opportunities in clinical cancer research in Wales. We will explore the shared benefits to industry and the cancer community of developing novel therapies and technologies in partnership and outline the activities and support available to carry out this work. |
Week 2: 20 - 23 June
| Session | Time | Summary |
|---|---|---|
INSIDE THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF SEMICONDUCTORS Chris Meadows | CSconnected | MONDAY 20 JUNE 11:00 - 11:45 | Until a major shortage of semiconductors affected multiple supply chains, who knew that a typical car contained around 3,000 separate semiconductor devices? Semiconductors ushered in the digital age and next generation technologies are set to further transform our lives in ways we can’t yet imagine. Wales is home to an impressive eco-system of organisations researching, innovating and manufacturing advanced semiconductor products. This session will introduce delegates to the sometimes mysterious world of semiconductors, the unique position Wales commands and the opportunities the sector offers. |
CREATIVES MEAN BUSINESS: THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE UK’S CREATIVE ECONOMY AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ALL BUSINESSES Professor Sara Pepper | Creative Cardiff | Clwstwr | MONDAY 20 JUNE 14:00 - 15:00 | The UK creative economy accounts for more than 2.5million jobs. This sizeable workforce spans multiple industries with creatives - from designers to software engineers, marketing executives to photographers - embedded in organisations across all sectors. This session will reflect on the growth and development of the UK’s creative economy in the last decade and why it matters to all businesses, and to society. |
MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING FOR WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES Professor Donald Forrester | CASCADE | TUESDAY 21 JUNE 11:00 - 12:30 | Motivational Interviewing (MI) provides ways of thinking about communication and a toolbox of skills that social care practitioners consistently find help them to have better meetings with parents and others. It also has a strong evidence base across many settings. Donald Forrester is a leading international experts in MI for child and family social work. He has studied and trained hundreds of social workers and have developed new ways of understanding the contribution that MI can make. |
| INNOVATION IN PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Dr Jane Lynch and Dr Oishee Kundu | Y Lab | TUESDAY 21 JUNE 14:00 - 15:00 | ‘Innovation is the new quality’ – it seems that innovation is mentioned in almost every strategy document or values statement. If you are a procurement professional or a supplier, what does innovation mean to you? Join us for this interactive session where we will outline some of the enablers and barriers to drive more innovation in Wales. |
UNDERSTANDING MUSLIM MENTAL HEALTH: DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF FRONT-LINE PUBLIC SERVICE PROFESSIONALS Dr Asma Khan | Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK | WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 11:00 - 12:00 | Research shows that Muslims in Britain are under-referred to mainstream services for mental health. This session will explore how a better understanding by a broad range of front-line workers of the distinctive ways in which Muslims understand and experience mental health issues could lead to improved support and services. |
THE FUTURE OF SKILLS IN THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Professor Phillip Brown | Centre for Innovation Policy Research (CIPR) | WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 14:00 - 15:00 | It is widely believed that digital disruption is transforming all aspects of the economy and society. This disruption is seen to be driven by advances across interdisciplinary fields leading to technological breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, additive manufacturing, synthetic biology, smart materials, etc. Media reports of these advances have highlighted the prospect of mass technological unemployment resulting from workplace automation. But such concerns have been a feature of all previous industrial revolutions. So what is so significant or ‘revolutionary’ about today’s developments in digital innovation? This session explores different interpretations of the fourth industrial revolution and the role of digital technologies in (re)shaping the future of work, education, and labour markets. Professor Brown will present a theory of ‘job scarcity’ rather than ‘labour scarcity’, which does not signal the end of work, but the need for a fundamental reassessment of current public policy. |
THE POWER OF EMBEDDING THE ARTS IN HEALTHCARE Dr Sofia Vougioukalou | Y Lab Kate Strudwick | Head 4 Arts | THURSDAY 23 JUNE 11:00 - 12:00 | This session will provide an overview of how can the arts be best embedded within health and social care systems and discuss the impact of creative engagement on different groups of service users. |
Full programme of events
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