Centre for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching PDP and Employability: practice and research @...

Centre for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching

PDP and Employability: practice and research @ Birmingham City

University

Jo Powell & Rachel Moule



What’s happening with PDP?

• Ongoing support for staff one-to-one and workshops including supporting staff’s own PDP

• BCU generic PDP moodle site: Your Personal and Professional Development

• E-Portfolio Mahara launched with tools and pedagogic framework

• Researching academic staff perceptions of PDP• In development- SEDA approved course for staff

supporting PDP• Researching student use of e-Portfolio for PDP• 10 step reflective feedback model to support modules


Status of Employability• Birmingham City University cited as good example* for

‘embedding (employability) into all documents that bear on how the organisation works’

• Also integrated into PG Cert / staff MA Ed modules • NTF project: Creating Future Proof Graduates

http://www.bcu.ac.uk/futureproof/• Graduate Employability Skills Framework for mapping

employability skills opportunities to the curriculum• Employability and Entrepreneurship Working group

established• In development-BCU Employability Award to include ePDP

* UK Commission for Employment & Skills - The Employability Challenge 2009


PDP NARN research with students

Research project investigated students’ reasons for engaging or not engaging with PDP via e-Portfolio.

Focus group with 8 first year non-traditional UG students. Student perspectives confirm the literature:– they really value the opportunities afforded by ePDP– BUT it feels ‘indulgent’– If given academic acknowledgement they would give it a

higher priority– Needs to be very clearly integrated and signposted

throughout the course, preferably via personal tutorial system


PDP NARN research with staff

• Research project investigating staff perceptions PDP and its parts and how valued they are– Questionnaire of 125 cross faculty academic staff– Asked to rate value of PDP and its parts– Asked to define PDP

• PDP seen as important – although elements of reflection, self awareness, action planning and employability rated more important separately

• Different faculties see different elements as most important


Interested? Please call us:

Ruth Lawton

University Teaching Fellow for Employability

Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching

[email protected]

0121 331 5126

Jo Powell

Tutor for PDP and Employability

Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching

[email protected]

0121 331 6412

http://www.bcu.ac.uk/celt/employability-personal-development

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