Chartered Scientist CPD Recording Template ‘2013’
Name:
Mineralogical Society Membership No:
Email address:
This template has been provided to help you detail your CPD history and demonstrate that
you meet the CSci CPD standards. In addition to this please provide a current CV or role
profile documenting any CPD activities you have undertaken i.e. training courses,
qualifications. Evidence of activity (as listed in section 4) may be requested during our annual
audit. If you would prefer to submit such evidence at the time of submitting CPD, we would be
grateful.
SECTION 1: Please demonstrate how your CPD activities are a mixture of learning
activities relevant to current or future practice. This should include activities in at least
three (exceptionally two) of the following categories:
a) Work based learning (e.g. supervising staff / students, reflective practice)
1. Recruitment of 2 new team members – each required specific procedures to be
followed and careful design of the adverts and recruitment process to maximise
success. Both roles were recruited successfully despite a limited budget year.
2. Equality & Diversity Course – provided in-house.
3. Environment & Sustainability course – provided in-house.
4. Project Argus course – incident response, business continuity plan. Delivered by
the Police Service.
5. Indium workshop at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx – attend workshop & fieldtrip led by
xxxxxxxxx.
6. Professional development reviews (PDR’s) for my team – annual review of my
team, individual meetings for each member. Paperwork to help promote a team
member, which was successful.
7. COSHH course (November) – attend and complete COSHH management
course at xxxxxxx University.
8. ESF conference xxxxxxxxxxxx (November) – attend conference for ESF project
presentations, funded PhD work of which I am co-supervising a project with
xxxxxxx University.
9. Lab management – completed 1 year as formal lab manager, which involves
team management, budgets, resource allocation and management meetings
with senior managers. In particular the XRF and EPMA required significant
repairs.
10. Teaching (ongoing) – one to one training during projects/lab work of mainly PhD
and postdocs, with lesser MSc and undergraduates. Taught on MSc module with
lab classes and lecture.
b) Professional activity (e.g. involvement in a professional body, mentoring)
1. Membership of the xxx special interest group & Mineralogical Society of Great
Britain & Ireland.
2. Ussher Society Member – Geoscience in SW England.
c) Formal / Educational (e.g. writing articles / papers, further education)
1. Involvement & production of research publications, listed below;
Six papers listed.
2. Production of research promotional material for automated mineralogy in
geoscience, listed below;
Two papers listed
3. Involvement in conference research, listed below;
13 presentations listed
d) Self-directed learning (e.g. reading journals, reviewing books / articles)
1. General reading including the specific subject areas and Elements magazine.
e) Other (e.g. voluntary work, public service)
1. Assist an International School Science day event – spent a Saturday
volunteering to help the XXXXX XXXXXX Science day, Forensic soil demo.
Assisted the event organiser with students. I also provided the analysis prior to
this event as part of the planning.
SECTION 2: Please provide examples of how your CPD activity has contributed to
the quality of your professional practice and service delivery.
The quality of my professional practice and service delivery has been improved by;
a). Development of recruitment skills by leading and recruiting 2 new staff members.
This has allowed the practice and improvement of recruitment skills, in the context of
the University practices.
b). Development of my team leading skills – management of technical staff,
combined with new recruitments and carrying out PDR’s.
c). Lab management skills – continued development of these skills that include
resource allocation (a challenge with more work than resources), budgets, team
leading, meeting the Universities goals and targets, engaging with senior staff and
policies.
e). Health & Safety – this is continuing to improve with day to day management of the
lab and courses such as those listed under section 1.
f). Research – this is always improving due to active involvement in research work, of
which some is published (listed in section 1c), but not all, but all work is important for
skill development.
g). Teaching – continued to improve especially on a one to one and small group
basis.
h). Membership of the XXX (MinSoc) and of the committee provides an up to date
and holistic perspective of geosciences in the UK and potential developments in
conferences and research
SECTION 3: Please provide examples of how your CPD activity has benefitted the
users of your work.
My CPD activity has benefitted the users of my work by;
a). Development of management skills along with my recruitment and team leading
skills has benefitted all users of the lab (staff, students), as we now have an
operational XRF with new staff member, and we also have a repaired EPMA with
staff member, thus both can offer a service for research which previously was not
possible for a long period of time (over a year).
b). Health & Safety has continued to be of a high standard with improvements as
required, benefiting all users.
c). Research – continued engagement with a variety of projects (section 1c) has
benefitted the academics and students I work with, though knowledge development,
publications and conference research.
d). Teaching – continued self-learning (section 1d) has meant that my teaching in
knowledge is up to date. Plus I am always willing to provide extra support by emails
and meetings. All staff/students benefit from this.
The below are all attached to the submission email as electronic documents,
labelled according to the section-point number.
SECTION 4: Summary of supporting evidence available
Evidence of activity i.e. certificates, course
material, reports, research papers
Certificates
Certificates
Date of
activity
2013
2013
CPD section
above activity
relates to
Section 1a
Section 1a
2013
Section 1a
2013
Section 1c
July 2013
Section 1e
Course information (certificate not yet received)
Publications (selected)
This resulted in a publication
Guidance on career breaks, retired members and confidentiality
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I hereby agree that the information given is correct and supports my wish to
revalidate as a Chartered Scientist (CSci).
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