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School of Applied Learning and Work

Welcome to the School of Applied Learning and Work, a practical professional development hub equipping frontline implementers with immediate operational tools to foster team cohesion and enhance workplace harmony.

About the School of Applied Learning and Work

The School of Applied Learning and Work focuses heavily on ongoing professional development, work-related learning, and immediate workplace competence. Designed for crucial frontline implementers—such as department heads, team leaders, and operational supervisors—this school provides highly actionable tools. The curriculum emphasises real-world skills needed to maintain team cohesion, proactively reduce workplace conflict, and mitigate corporate tribunal costs.

School of Applied Learning and Work

Housed Programmes

Escalate: The Emerging Professorial Programme

ESCALATE is a premier 10-month hybrid leadership programme engineered to support the development of academics looking to progress to full professorships.

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Certificates

Empower your leadership with professional development rooted in equity, inclusion, and real-world impact.

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Short Courses

Institute for Equity, University Centre is a specialist research-led authority on EDI, leadership, organisational effectiveness, and professional standards.

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Workshops

ALL workshops can be booked as one-off training or as part of a package.

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School of Applied Learning and Work Fellows

Professor Kim Ochs

Visiting Professor

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Kelly Dolphin

Executive in Residence

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Professor Milton Brown

Visiting Professor

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Professor Matthew Chapman

Visiting Professor

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Dr Deeba Parmar

Dr Deeba Parmar

Dr Deeba Parmar, Head of Learning and Teaching, BPP University EdD, MSc, PGCHE, BSc, PFHEA
EdD, MSc, PGCHE, BSc, SFHEA

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Bank Of England
British Council
Camden Learning
Kaplan
Manchester Met
Merseyside Police
Standards & Testing Agency
The Church Of England

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What Makes
Us Unique?

Grounded In Practice

We provide institutions and organisations support for action-planning; design of intervention and tools; implementation and delivery of interventions; and monitoring.

Informed By Research

Monitoring and evaluation of interventions. We conduct equity and curricular audits and make recommendations based on these audits.

Multidisciplinary

Delivery of interventions; and monitoring and evaluation of interventions. We conduct equity and curricular audits and make recommendations based on these audits.

Intersectional

We provide institutions and organisations support for action-planning; design of intervention and tools; implementation and delivery of interventions.

Grounded In Practice

We provide institutions and organisations support for action-planning; design of intervention and tools; implementation and delivery of interventions; and monitoring.

Informed By Research

Monitoring and evaluation of interventions. We conduct equity and curricular audits and make recommendations based on these audits.

Multidisciplinary

Delivery of interventions; and monitoring and evaluation of interventions. We conduct equity and curricular audits and make recommendations based on these audits.

Intersectional

We provide institutions and organisations support for action-planning; design of intervention and tools; implementation and delivery of interventions.