Course Catalogue

To enable staff to develop an appreciation of the role of academic leadership in the enhancement of professional practice

This module fosters an understanding of the role of academic leadership in enhancing professional practice. It focuses on leadership skills for academic improvement within a discipline, including team building, emotional intelligence, influencing and negotiating skills and coaching and mentoring.  Academic leadership is integral to the delivery of high quality learning and teaching at the module, programme and subject level. The module focuses on an analysis of leadership skills for the enhancement of academic practice within a discipline. Participants will be provided with an opportunity to critically evaluate their leadership approaches in relation to building a team. The role of coaching and mentoring will also be explored with particular emphasis on the correct application of the approaches for team development.  Students will deliver a presentation identifying appropriate model(s) of leadership in their specific leadership context.  Students will provide a justification for their choice(s) in this context and identify strategies to enhance their leadership skills to achieve their objective(s).

The programme is designed to support teaching staff who are currently working in a Higher Education environment. It is, therefore, fundamentally associated with the workplace and practice. All teaching is rooted in an exploration of the relationship between theory and practice and the programme's assessment strategy focuses on assessment tasks that have direct relevance to practitioners