Personal Development Programme (PDP)
Tailored to the students of each individual department, this programme sets out to develop within the curriculum the set of skills, generic across all disciplines, which support students in their career planning activities into the future. These skills include:
- Self-appraisal - students develop a profile of their own skills, values and interests
- Researching opportunities for employment and further study
- Decision making
- Goal setting & action planning
The full PDP programme, which is run in collaboration with the Departments, includes a combination of seminars, online tools, a workbook (known as the PCDR), careers evenings / talks by alumni and in Germanic Studies, mentoring.
The full PDP programme is being delivered collaboratively in the following departments:
- Physics
- Physiology
- Psychology
The following departments have integrated sections of the PDP programme into their skills development programmes and these are generally delivered by a Careers Adviser:
- Management Science and Information Studies
- Nursing & Midwifery
- Occupational Therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Radiation Therapy
Elements of the programme are also delivered by Careers Advisers in the following departments:
- Civil Engineering
- Classics
- Computer Science
- Germanic Studies
- Hebrew, Biblical & Theological Studies
- History of Art
- Mechanical Engineering
- Music
