Professional Development Programmes

This PDP aims to equip participants with an understanding of the intersection between technology, sustainability, and business. By the end of the programme, participants should be able to critically analyse the environmental impact of digital technologies in a business and propose an implementation strategy for sustainable solutions.

The PDP is delivered via six live online sessions, held weekly. Self-directed learning materials and practical tools are also provided.

Week One: Sustainability - A Human Activity

Week Two: The Role of Technology in Sustainability - The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful

Week Three: Mitigating Negative Impacts with Green Digital Technologies

Week Four: Case Studies, Best Practices and Change Management in Green Tech

Week Five: Ethics and The Future of Green Tech

Week Six: End Game; Sustainability Reporting

The programme will help individuals and businesses harness the power of AI, upskilling participants in key AI tools and enabling organisations to develop internal AI expertise.

The PDP is delivered via six live online sessions, held weekly. Self-directed learning materials and practical tools are also provided.

Week One: Introduction to Generative AI

Week Two: Prompt Engineering for Customised Outputs

Week Three: Understanding Language Models (LLM)

Week Four: Fine-Tuning Prebuilt LLMs

Week Five: Ethical Considerations in AI

Week Six: Philosophy of Mind and AI Futures

Our Digital Marketing PDP covers a broad range of topics to elevate an individual’s digital marketing skills, and enhance an employer’s in-house expertise. The programme will outline key components of digital marketing and how these can support business growth, creating and implementing digital marketing strategies, customer and competitor analysis, and measuring the impact of digital marketing activities.

The programme uses case studies, individual and group project work, and audit tools, to elevate an individual’s skills and knowledge. By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Describe the business benefits of a cohesive digital marketing strategy
• Outline the key components in digital marketing and explain how they can apply these to deliver business growth through customer engagement
• Demonstrate their ability by producing branded materials
• Identify and evaluate what “good” means
• Recognise and mitigate the business risks associated to digital marketing
• Analyse the impact of digital marketing through KPIs
• Recall and describe the key tools used to measure metrics

The PDP is delivered via six live online sessions, held weekly. Self-directed learning materials and practical tools are also provided.

Learn the fundamentals of front-end and back-end software development with our Software PDP.

Front of house developers are primarily focused on the graphical user interface, and our programme will teach the fundamentals of: HTML, CSS and JavaScript; APIs; DevOps Methodology; Version Control Systems (Git); Introduction to Programming Languages; and User Interface and Visual Elements for Websites and Mobile Apps.

For those who want to learn more about working behind the scenes, then this programme will teach individuals how to build and maintain mechanisms, with sessions covering: Quality Assurance Testing; Using Frameworks (Django & Node.js) and Databases (SQL) and Building and Maintaining Websites.

The PDP is delivered via six live online sessions, held weekly. Self-directed learning materials and practical tools are also provided.