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Continuing Professional Development

We can support your training needs and enhance your workforce.

Our training courses provide access to a wide range of expertise. They support the continuing professional development needs of those working in:

  • life science
  • health
  • social care

They are flexible for both the learner and the employer. You can access support in a variety of ways to help them with their studies. We scrutinise each of our courses, both academically and professionally. Whether you chose to study a course that is credit bearing or not, it will add true value to your workplace.

Explore the range of short online courses offered by Newcastle University.

Module catalogue

These attendance modules require you to attend fixed (though infrequent) study days at the University campus. Some modules run more than once in a year and where this applies, you should choose the link for the semester in which you would like to study.

Semester 1 begins at the end of September. Semester 2 begins at the end of January. Semester 3 begins in mid-June. We list exact semester dates on the University Calendar.

Modules in Public Health and Health Services Research

Running in Semester 1 (end of September)

 

Running in Semester 2 (end of January)

Get in touch 

If you have a question about these courses email the team pghealth@newcastle.ac.uk

For further details and information on how to apply please visit Public Health and Health Services Research MSc, PGDip, PGCert

Modules in Clinical Health Science and Clinical Research

Clinical Research with Older People (E-learning CHS8007)

Integrity, Infrastructure and Information Governance in Healthcare Research (E-learning MCR8009) 

Study Design, Data Management and Communication of Clinical Research: Doing Clinical Research Well (E-learning MCR8010)

Writing in a Research Setting (E-learning MCR8011)

Designing a Research Proposal (E-learning MCR8013)

Clinical Trials (E-learning MCR8015)

Clinical Research Statistics (E-learning MCR8019)

Qualitative Research (E-Learning MCR8033)

Introduction to Qualitative Research (E-learning MCR8034)

 

Get in touch

If you have a question about these courses email the team epgclinres@newcastle.ac.uk

For further details and information on how to apply please visit Clinical Research MClinRes, PGDip, PGCert

Modules in Public Health

You can study stand-alone modules as CPD on programme code 6017P (CPD Public Health).

Students can take the following stand-alone modules:

You need to apply at least 6 weeks before your chosen module starts. Fees are charged per 10 credits, and the fee changes each year with inflation.  

For details on when modules run, and this year’s fee, please email pghealth@newcastle.ac.uk.

For details on how to apply, see Public Health MPH.

Modules in Oncology and Palliative Care

Running in Semester 1 (end of September)

Running in Semester 2 (end of January)

Both semesters: E-Learning: Clinical Research Statistics (MCR8019)

Get in touch

Explore our training in oncology and palliative care training.

If you have a question about these courses email the team oncpall@newcastle.ac.uk

For further details and information on how to apply please visit Oncology MSc, PGDip, PGCert Programme

Short courses

Introduction to Practical Bioinformatics

This intensive two-day course aims to introduce scientists to the command-line interface and the R programming environment. We start from the basics without assuming any prior knowledge. It introduces; the Linux command-line, command-line BLAST and shell scripting. Includes data handling in the R statistical programming environment.
Contact: bsu-support@newcastle.ac.uk

RNA-Seq Data Analysis

This one-day course covers important aspects of Bioinformatics and the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data. We work though an RNA-Seq Analysis using the popular DESeq2 package for differential gene expression analysis. Contact: bsu-support@newcastle.ac.uk

Introduction to Marker Gene Sequencing (16S, 18S, ITS)

This is a two-day course that demonstrates a typical workflow for microbial marker gene (16S, 18S, and ITS) sequencing analysis, from raw FASTQ files to a wide range of plots, tables, and statistics. The course aims to teach attendees how to use the most appropriate tools for their analysis, and write their own pipeline for marker gene analysis. The primary goal of this course is not only to equip attendees with the coding skills required for their analysis, but to explain the principles behind the tools and methods.
Contact: bsu-support@newcastle.ac.uk

Home Office Licensee Training and Laboratory Animal Specialist Courses

The Comparative Biology Centre offer modules for PIL A, B, C and PPL applicants and a variety of other specialist short courses. Courses run all year round, please get in touch for further information.
Contact: cbc-office@ncl.ac.uk

An Introduction to Policy Evaluation for Public Health

This course introduces statistical techniques to evaluate public health interventions and policy. It will outline how to interpret statistical results and questions to ask yourself when reading public health papers, highlight key datasets available to evaluate public health policy and interventions, and examine three different estimation techniques that can be used for policy evaluation.
Contact: heather.brown@newcastle.ac.uk

Children’s Allergy Webinars

These free webinars are aimed at healthcare professionals in both primary and secondary care who see children with allergy or have an interest in allergic conditions. Upcoming topics include cow’s milk allergy, season allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma, allergic skin disease and venom allergy.
Contact: childrensallergy@nuth.nhs.uk or cpdsupport@newcastle.ac.uk

Bespoke courses

We can create bespoke training to meet your staff’s specific needs, including:

Get in touch

To discuss a bespoke course please get in touch:

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3246 

Email: business@newcastle.ac.uk

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