Continuing Professional Development
We can support your training needs and enhance your workforce.
Our training courses provide access to a wide range of expertise. They support the continuing professional development needs of those working in:
- life science
- health
- social care
They are flexible for both the learner and the employer. You can access support in a variety of ways to help them with their studies. We scrutinise each of our courses, both academically and professionally. Whether you chose to study a course that is credit bearing or not, it will add true value to your workplace.
Explore the range of short online courses offered by Newcastle University.
Module catalogue
These attendance modules require you to attend fixed (though infrequent) study days at the University campus. Some modules run more than once in a year and where this applies, you should choose the link for the semester in which you would like to study.
Semester 1 begins at the end of September. Semester 2 begins at the end of January. Semester 3 begins in mid-June. We list exact semester dates on the University Calendar.
Modules in Public Health
Running in Semester 1: (September)
MPH8001: Principles of Public Health - 20 Credits
MPH8002: Research Methods for Public Health – 20 Credits
MPH8003: Introduction to Health Statistics and Epidemiological Analysis – 20 Credits
Running in Semester 2: (January)
MPH8004: Social and Commercial Determinants of Health – 20 Credits
MPH8005: Global Health and Planetary Boundaries – 20 Credits
MPH8006**: Applied Epidemiology and Data Science – 20 Credits
MPH8007: Ageing Across the Life Course – 10 Credits
MPH8008: Health Economics – 10 Credits
MPH8009: Health Improvement: Theory, Policy and Practice – 10 Credits
MPH8010: Public Health Protection – 10 Credits
** Please e-mail pghealth@ncl.ac.uk before applying for this module.
Get in touch
If you have a question about these courses, email the team at pghealth@ncl.ac.uk.
For further details and information on how to apply please visit Public Health MPH, PGDip, PGCert.
Modules in Clinical Research
Running in Semester 1: (September)
MCR8009: Integrity, Infrastructure & Information Governance in Healthcare Research - 20 credits
MCR8013: Designing a Research Proposal - 20 credits
MCR8033: Qualitative Research - 20 credits
Running in Semester 2: (January)
MCR8010: Data Management and Communication of Clinical Research: Doing Clinical Research Well - 20 credits
MCR8019: Clinical Research Statistics - 20 credits
MCR8036: Clinical Research with Older People - 20 credits
Running in Semester 3: (April)
MCR8011: Writing in a Research Setting - 20 credits
MCR8015: Clinical Trials - 20 credits
Get in touch
If you have a question about these courses, email the team at epgclinres@ncl.ac.uk.
For further details and information on how to apply please visit Clinical Research MClinRes, PGDip, PGCert.
Short courses
Introduction to Practical Bioinformatics
This intensive two-day course aims to introduce scientists to the command-line interface and the R programming environment. We start from the basics without assuming any prior knowledge. It introduces; the Linux command-line, command-line BLAST and shell scripting. Includes data handling in the R statistical programming environment.
RNA-Seq Data Analysis
This one-day course covers important aspects of Bioinformatics and the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data. We work though an RNA-Seq Analysis using the popular DESeq2 package for differential gene expression analysis.
Introduction to Marker Gene Sequencing (16S, 18S, ITS)
This is a two-day course that demonstrates a typical workflow for microbial marker gene (16S, 18S, and ITS) sequencing analysis, from raw FASTQ files to a wide range of plots, tables, and statistics. The course aims to teach attendees how to use the most appropriate tools for their analysis, and write their own pipeline for marker gene analysis. The primary goal of this course is not only to equip attendees with the coding skills required for their analysis, but to explain the principles behind the tools and methods.
Home Office Licensee Training and Laboratory Animal Specialist Courses
The Comparative Biology Centre offer modules for PIL A, B, C and PPL applicants and a variety of other specialist short courses. Courses run all year round, please get in touch for further information.
An Introduction to Policy Evaluation for Public Health
This course introduces statistical techniques to evaluate public health interventions and policy. It will outline how to interpret statistical results and questions to ask yourself when reading public health papers, highlight key datasets available to evaluate public health policy and interventions, and examine three different estimation techniques that can be used for policy evaluation.
Children’s Allergy Webinars
These free webinars are aimed at healthcare professionals in both primary and secondary care who see children with allergy or have an interest in allergic conditions. Upcoming topics include cow’s milk allergy, season allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma, allergic skin disease and venom allergy.
Bespoke courses
We can create bespoke training to meet your staff’s specific needs, including:
- a huge range of Communication Skills Training through Roleplaynorth
- anatomy and clinical skills courses, with facility hire, academic input, technical support and cadaveric materials all available
- bespoke hands-on training in scientific techniques and analysis of results
Get in touch
To discuss a bespoke course please get in touch:
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3246
Email: business@ncl.ac.uk