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Last updated: 4 September 2008
PRESS RELEASE ARCHIVE
Welcome to the Press Release Archive. Please feel free to browse.
2004
August - Case Study Findings
April - Innovation Grants
March - Regional Workshops
2003
January - Grant Award
Making Practice Based Learning Work
The Department of Employment and Learning (Northern Ireland) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England awarded a grant of £250,000 for a collaborative project involving staff from Ulster, Northumbria and Bournemouth universities to make practitioners more effective in promoting the quality of practice based learning. The three year project commenced in January 2003, taking place in Northern and Southern Ireland, North East and South West England.
The project aims to promote practitioner effectiveness at supporting & supervising students in the workplace across a range of healthcare disciplines. It will identify and document good practice on preparing practitioners for their educational role, develop and evaluate learning materials for practitioners, which will then be disseminated across health and social care communities.
The disciplines involved in the project are Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Radiography, and Nursing. The project outcomes will be disseminated to other disciplines where integration of theory and practice-based learning is currently developing, for example, Biomedical Sciences, Podiatry, Clinical Physiology Midwifery and Social Work.
The project commissioned staff from the universities participating in the project to produce a case study for each of the five disciplines involved in the project. These case studies involved an audit of the practice undertaken by Universities throughout the UK and Ireland on the methods used to prepare practitioners for their educational role in supporting students during practice placements. The audit commenced in September 2003 and was completed in January 2004. The project team also held regional events in Newcastle on 4th December and in Bournemouth on 15th December 2003 to analyse development of good practice in the educational preparation of practice based supervisors.
The findings of the case studies include examples of good practice that emerged from both the audit and regional events. For example, courses for preparing practice educators conformed to professional requirements. Examples of practice educator preparation courses that were either shared by disciplines or by institutions emerged in several case studies. All case studies identified the use of inter-professional learning activity, though this was normally in the classroom rather than practice settings. The case studies all felt the role of the practice educator needed greater formal recognition and more resources to enhance the status of the practice educator.
These case studies are being used by the project team to inform development of learning materials, available in a number of efficient media, e.g., paper, electronic, CD-ROM and web-based, which can be used by practitioners to make them more effective at helping students learn whilst on placement in the workplace. A number of further regional workshops are being held in Belfast, Bournemouth and Newcastle to inform the nature of these materials. The project team are currently seeking tenders to assist with development of these materials.
The final year of the project will involve evaluation and then wider dissemination of the materials produced as part of this project.
An archive of previous press releases is also available.
Further Information
Further details are available at the Project website:
http://www.practicebasedlearning.org
Or can be obtained by contacting the Project Administrator, Barbara Gregg:
Telephone: 0289 036 8458
E-mail: BM.Gregg@ulster.ac.uk
MAKING PRACTICE BASED LEARNING INNOVATION GRANTS
The Department of Employment and Learning (Northern Ireland) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England have funded a collaborative three year project involving staff from Ulster, Northumbria and Bournemouth universities to make practitioners more effective in promoting the quality of practice based learning.
The project aims to promote practitioner effectiveness at supporting & supervising students in the workplace across a range of healthcare disciplines. It will identify and document good practice on preparing practitioners for their educational role, develop and evaluate learning materials for practitioners, which will then be disseminated across health and social care communities.
The project team want to develop learning materials, available in a number of efficient media, e.g., paper, electronic, CD-ROM and web-based, which can be used by practitioners to make them more effective at helping students learn whilst on placement in the workplace. These materials will be based on accepted areas of good practice in the following areas:
Learning & Teaching in Practice
Supporting Learning in Practice
Reflection in Practice
Interprofessional Work in Practice
Diversity in Practice
Assessment in Practice
The project team intend to fund applications from interested parties seeking to develop learning materials that can be piloted and disseminated. Awards will be made by competitive application and it is anticipated that awards will be no more than £1,000. If you wish to apply, then guidance notes and an application form will be available from 1st May 2004.
Closing date for applications will be May 24 2004.
Making Practice Based Learning Work Regional Workshops
University of Ulster Thursday 1st April 2004
Bournemouth University Wednesday 26th May 2004
University of Northumbria Friday 11th June 2004
We would like to invite you to attend one of the above workshops as part of the FDTL funded Project which aims to make practitioners more effective at supporting & supervising students in the workplace across the following five healthcare disciplines:
Dietetics
Nursing
Physiotherapy
Occupational Therapy
Radiography
The purpose of the workshop will be to:
- disseminate the findings of the first phase of the Making Practice Based Learning Work Project
- present the common issues affecting the nature of practice-based education
- present examples of innovations/good practice in the preparation and support of practice based educators
- discuss and agree the way forward to how the project can improve the preparation and/or support of practice educators
This event is funded via the project, refreshments and lunch will be provided.
If you would like to attend, please contact
Barbara Gregg by telephone on
028 9036 8458 or by Email: bm.gregg@ulster.ac.uk or complete and return
the reply slip attached.
Making Practice Based Learning Work
The Department of Employment and Learning (Northern Ireland) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England has awarded a grant of £250,000 for a collaborative project involving staff from Ulster, Northumbria and Bournemouth universities to make practitioners more effective in promoting the quality of practice based learning. The three year project will take place in Northern Ireland, North East and South West England and commenced in January 2003.
This project aims to promote practitioner effectiveness at supporting & supervising students in the workplace across a range of healthcare disciplines. It will identify and document good practice on preparing practitioners for their educational role, develop and evaluate learning materials for practitioners, which will then be disseminated across health and social care communities.
The disciplines involved in the project are Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Radiography, and Nursing. The project outcomes will be disseminated to other disciplines where integration of theory and practice-based learning is currently developing, for example, Biomedical Sciences, Podiatry, Clinical Physiology Midwifery and Social Work.
The main outcome of the project will be the development of learning materials, available in a number of efficient media, e.g., paper, electronic, CD-ROM and eb-based, which can be used by practitioners to make them more effective at helping students learn whilst on placement in the workplace.