Our Data & Digital Leadership CPD units offer modular, adaptable, and practical professional development for students to gain or enhance their ability to collect, manage, analyse, use and communicate data to design implementable innovations and solve workplace challenges. Developing data and digital leadership skills from a ‘humanising data’ perspective, enables staff to focus on people-centred needs and values, while using data insights to create progressive cycles of data collection and intervention to improve service delivery, enhance workplace practices and solve real world challenges.
For more information please see https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/bu-data
Modules
CPD 1: Understanding Data
In Understanding Data, you will develop key data literacies for using digital information to make people-led decisions, interrogating data for targeted interventions, and dealing with data challenges including bias, absent information and messy data.
Dates and times:
After these, you will have time to work on your portfolio before an assessment submission deadline close to the end of the unit period. Details of specific dates will be provided closer to the time.
CPD 2: Working with Data
In Working with Data you will gain a foundation in data governance including policies, storage and management, build technical literacy and capacity with a particular focus on working with spreadsheets and data dashboards, scaled to users' skill levels and workplace needs.
Dates and times:
After these, you will have time to work on your portfolio before an assessment submission deadline close to the end of the unit period. Details of specific dates will be provided closer to the time.
CPD 3: Communicating with Data
In Communicating Data you will develop effective strategies for communicating with data in writing, visuals and interactive forms, learn to build effective narratives with specific data sets, and communicate data-based initiatives to decision-makers, colleagues and the public.
Dates and times:
After this, you will have time to work on your portfolio before an assessment submission deadline close to the end of the unit period. Details of specific dates will be provided closer to the time.
Venue and teaching methods
Teaching methods include online, in-person and hybrid approaches to: lectures, seminars, work-based learning, student-centred learning, tutorials, group work. Students will also be expected to undertake additional research and reading to support formal learning.
These units require a commitment to attendance.
If you already have a degree, we strongly recommend that you consider undertaking this unit at Level 7 (Master's level). This will enable you to gain academic credits that may be able to be transferred into a relevant MA pathway.
Students may enter Level 7 (Master's level) study if they have been awarded:
100% Coursework.
To view the Intended Learning outcomes for each unit at Level 6 and Level 7, please see https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/bu-data
£3150.00
This is the fee for all 3 units. This course can be self-funded or funded by an employing organisation.