Welcome
Dr Avril Thomson
Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management
Dr Debbie Willison
Director of Teaching, Pure & Applied Chemistry
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Peer and Community Personal
Development Planning
(PC PDP)
Outline of Presentation
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Background
Overview of PC PDP
Methodology
Resources Created
Staff Support
Summary
Future Work
Acknowledgements
Background
Importance of PDP – KEY contributing factor towards a
positive student experience
• Variety of PDP programmes over several decades
• Survey
• Revised Institutional Model for Personal
Development Advising 2010
• PC PDP developed in response
Overview of PC PDP
The vision of PC PDP places the student at the centre of their
professional development
careers advisor
alumni
industrial partners
student
peers
academic advisor
Methodology (general)
Funding to engage students – developed FOR
students BY students
• Development in summer months
• Begin with one Faculty and then expand into
second Faculty
• PDP Champion and Network
• Professional Services
Methodology - First cycle
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Investigation
Specification
Concept Generation and Evaluation
Development
Deliver
Methodology - Second cycle
• Evaluation
• Peer Support
• Online support
Resources Created
• Student and Staff handbooks
• Downloadable action plan and action plan
review
• Skills development centre
• Alumni profiles
• Alumni/Industry forum
• Mahara e-portfolio
‘Tight-loose’ framework
PDP – online
Staff Support
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Peer mentor scheme
Training sessions
PDP Network
PDP Champion
Summary
• Effective online PC PDP package rolled out
across a number of departments in the
Faculties of Science and Engineering
• Peer Mentoring Scheme introduced
• Establishment of a PC PDP Network
Future work
• Further evaluate and refine PDP material
• Work with students from all four Faculties to
establish the use of PC PDP across the
institution
• 4 interns
• Teaching Associate
• Alumni Clubs
Acknowledgements
• Caroline Breslin, Ashleigh Fletcher, Mark Haw,
Michael Hughes, Andrew McLaren, Alan
Robertson, Phil Sayer, Cherie Woolmer
• Philip Baillie, Dorothea Bouck-Standen,
Victoria Hamilton, Laura Hay, Tauflik Marlik,
Stewart Steele
• Wei Adams, Yevgeniya Manchul, Catriona
Provan, Kasim Qureshi