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Skills that empower: How mentorship and strategy fuelled a leadership journey

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Nicola Reeves is the Managing Director of Happy Hour Productions, a Bristol-based TV and video advertising agency that blends strategy, creativity and production under one roof. In 2023, she enrolled on the Help to Grow: Management Course at UWE Bristol, seeking to sharpen her leadership skills and steer her agency’s next chapter with confidence.

Olly Reid is a business coach, adviser and mentor, and Co-Founder of HUM4NS – an award-winning professional development organisation based in Bristol. A UWE Bristol alum, Olly completed his BA, MA and PGCE at the university, and is now an Equity Coach on the UWE Equity programme, where he delivers the session ‘Success Starts with You’.

We caught up with Nicola to explore how the Help to Grow: Management course helped shape her journey, and how a powerful mentoring partnership with Olly Reid, forged during the programme, fuels her growth today – and continues to add value to both of their businesses.

Nicola, please could you tell us a bit about yourself, your career journey, and what made you apply to join the Help to Grow: Management Course at UWE Bristol?

I studied English at the University of Bristol and whilst I was there, some of the big advertising agencies came to present their graduate recruitment programmes – I saw M&C Saatchi and thought yep, I want to work for an ad agency in client services!

From there, I got my first job at McCann – one of the big global agencies – and worked across brands like Cathay Pacific, SimplyHealth, Badger Ales and Unilever. I worked my way up for around seven years before going travelling and working at smaller independent agencies, including a great agency in Sydney too.

During my time at McCann, I’d met the Happy Hour team many times on TV production shoots and knew what a great bunch they were, especially Tom George, the founder and owner. So when I was approached by Tom to join Happy Hour as Client Services Director on their TV and video clients, I was excited for the new challenge of working in both advertising and production.

I’ve now been there for 13 years and took over the mantle of Managing Director in 2023. So, in that new role with newfound freedom to plan the strategic development of the business, I felt that the Help to Grow: Management Course would give me the support and new network that I’d need.

How was your time on the Help to Grow: Management Course?

It did just that! It was a great grounding in all the fundamentals of running a business – some of which you know you have nailed, and some you realise quite quickly that you don’t!

It gave me dedicated time to work on the business, instead of just in it. The course was also perfect for meeting great individuals from different businesses and sectors – the group coaching and support that comes from an outside perspective is invaluable.

Olly, could you tell us a bit about yourself and your career journey – from studying at UWE Bristol to co-founding your company, and becoming a mentor on the Help to Grow programme?

My early career was in hospitality leadership and management, but in 2008 I arrived at UWE Bristol as a mature student to train as a teacher and completed a degree in Education Studies. That experience was genuinely life-changing. During my time there, I was elected Vice President for Education at the Students’ Union – two incredible years that taught me a huge amount about people, leadership, and the power of purpose. After my term finished, I returned to complete my PGCE and later a Masters in Integrated Professional Development.

I’ve always been fascinated by how people learn, grow, and perform – that curiosity has really shaped everything I’ve done since.

After teaching, I began blending my experience in leadership, management, and education – first with The Prince’s Trust, then with the social enterprise Entrepreneurial Spark, before moving into the corporate world and leading the NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator across the Midlands, South West, and Wales . Working with leaders and business owners,  I truly saw the power of mindset and culture in driving business success.

That passion led me deeper into coaching and leadership development. I went on to complete an ILM Level 7 in Executive Coaching and Mentoring and, over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of coaching hundreds of leaders and business owners – from CEOs to founders – helping them strengthen their mindset, performance, and resilience.

In 2021, I co-founded HUM4NS, a personal and professional development company on a mission to help people and teams become happier, healthier, smarter, and kinder. We deliver programmes like HELP (the Empowered Leadership Programme), coaching for senior leaders, and team development experiences that build better humans, not just better businesses.

Alongside this, I’m Trustee at the Marmalade Trust and a proud mentor on the Help to Grow: Management programme, supporting SMEs across the UK to scale sustainably and lead with confidence. Watching leaders reconnect with their purpose and potential is what keeps me inspired every single day.

How did you find the mentoring aspect of the course, and how has your mentoring partnership continued since the course finished?

Nicola: I’d say the mentoring aspect of the course was the thing that makes it so valuable – you need that person to hold you accountable for putting into practice what you’ve learnt. Your mentor also gives you the personal, mental and emotional support you need as a leader.

There’s a reason they say it’s lonely at the top and having a mentor is such a good sounding board – if you get the right one!

I was lucky enough to find Olly who has stayed on as my mentor and coach since I finished the course over two years ago. We have regular 121 sessions and I’m also now on the 12-month HUM4NS Empowered Leadership programme (HELP) run by Olly.

Olly: Great mentoring is a two-way relationship. It only works when both sides show up. The best outcomes happen when there’s the right match: a mentor who listens, challenges and supports, and a mentee who’s open, curious and ready to put things into practice. That’s exactly what Nicola brought to the table. For me, the mentoring element of Help to Grow is where the learning becomes real leadership – it’s the bridge between knowing what to do and actually putting it into action. I joined Help to Grow to give back, but mentoring Nicola has turned into an unexpected long term partnership that has added value to both our businesses.

What have you been up to since?

Nicola: We’ve been busy at Happy Hour since Help to Grow!

We’ve refined our positioning, and overhauled the look and feel of our brand, including launching a new website, alongside fully integrating HubSpot to manage our pipeline.

We launched our own podcast – Happy Half Hour – where we chat to guests from production, advertising and media in our own purpose-build podcast studio. We’ve also launched ‘TV Essentials’, which is a lower cost entry point for first-time TV advertisers.

In the team, we’ve had a handful of new hires, as well as celebrating two 10-year anniversaries. We’ve made it to the number one spot in Campaign magazine’s Top Regional Agencies (and number 27 in the UK’s Top 100). We’ve also recently picked up a Cannes Dolphin for our work on Arsenal’s No More Red Campaign, a film promoting their work to reduce youth knife crime in London – something we’re incredibly proud of.

As for the future, perhaps another acquisition, and bringing a non-exec director on board to help focus our growth plans. Let’s see where the future takes us!

Olly: I’ve gone on to win two Help to Grow Mentoring Matters Awards, one for Innovation and the other for the Most Inspirational Mentor, alongside an Entreconf Award and being finalists at the National Start Up Awards, Great British Entrepreneur Awards and Bristol Life Awards.

HUM4NS has launched new programmes, expanded from Bristol, to Wales to Australia, and I’m continuing to support the Happy Hour team through coaching, workshops and SLT days.

Explore the Help to Grow: Management Course at UWE Bristol.

90% Funded Management Course enters Fourth Year of Delivery at UWE Bristol

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After a successful third year of delivering the Small Business Charter accredited Help to Grow: Management Course, UWE Bristol is welcoming more business owners, managers and senior decision makers to register for upcoming cohorts.

Since March 2021, UWE has helped over 250 business leaders to complete the course. With modules covering strategies for growth and innovation, leading high-performance teams, building a strong brand, and financial management, Help to Grow: Management offers business leaders the opportunity to step back from day-to-day operations for a few hours a week and to take a more strategic look at their business.

The course is 90% subsidised by the government, costing participants just £750, and consists of:

  • 12 modules in a mix of face-to-face and online learning
  • Weekly peer group calls
  • 1-1 mentoring
  • Access to a local and national alumni network

Participants will learn from small business experts at Bristol Business School in a supportive, innovative environment. Previous cohorts have expressed the benefits of having the opportunity to network with other local businesses in an encouraging atmosphere that fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing.

UWE Bristol Help to Grow: Management Alumni and Director of 9Trees CIC, Michael Cunningham, commented:

“After a massive delve into all facets of 9Trees CIC, many hours of group work and discussion with all the companies involved, I feel I have come out with a greater understanding, putting into place some changes immediately and planning for the year ahead. We all made some great friends along the way too!”

UWE Bristol have three cohorts scheduled to run through the academic year 2024/25, with two cohorts planned to run in Bristol and one in Taunton. Find out more about courses available and book your place on our website, or contact the team on helptogrow@uwe.ac.uk.

ILM Level 7 – Certificate for Executive & Senior Level Coaches and Mentors – October 2023

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Introduction

Our Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring programme aims to give you the skills and experience to develop your coaching/mentoring skills by practically completing coaching/mentoring sessions and critically reviewing these.

Listen to the Future Impact podcast (via Soundcloud) featuring four inspirational women who talk about their coaching journey after undertaking the Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring (ILM Level 7) programme.

Who is it for?

The Level 7 qualification is ideal for senior leaders with significant responsibility for coaching and mentoring as part of their day-to-day role working with employees and colleagues. It is also designed to develop learners planning to move into a senior executive role or to establish and enhance an existing career as a coach or mentor offering coaching and mentoring to people within settings dealing with strategy and senior decision-making.

It is also aimed at those who are offering or wish to offer coaching/mentoring at a high level within organisations or as an external coach or mentor. You will need to have access to complete at least 20 hours of coaching and mentoring in the workplace.

Content

The coaching and mentoring team run the programme with a mixture of theory and skills development and will be taking a number of different experiential approaches in keeping with ideas of adult learning. This will include different approaches such as the arts of building trust, listening, questioning and using positive silence.

Additionally, some time will be spent exploring the more creative link to coaching, for example through the lenses of play and mediating objects.

October 2023 Cohort dates

October 2023TimeLocation
Introduction – Tuesday 10 October 202310:00 – 11:00Online
Session 1 – Tuesday 17 October 202309:30 – 16:30Frenchay Campus
Session 2 – Monday 20 November 202309:30 – 16:30Online
Session 3 – Monday 8 January 202409:30 – 16:30Online
Session 4 – Tuesday 6 February 202409:30 – 16:30Frenchay Campus
Session 5 – Monday 4 March 202409:30 – 16:30Online
Session 6 – Monday 15 April 202409:30 – 16:30Online
Session 7 (part 1) – Thursday 2 May 202409:30 – 13:00Online
Session 7 (part 2) – Monday 3 June 202409:30 – 13:00Online
Session 8 (part 1) – Monday 8 July 202409:30 – 13:00Online
Session 8 (part 2) – Tuesday 10 September 202409:30 – 13:00Online
Session 9 – Tuesday 8 October 202409:30 – 16:30Frenchay Campus

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Unleadership: Transformative Leadership Practices

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Introduction

The way formal leaders, individuals, communities, and organisations have been responding to these challenges has highlighted the inspirational outcomes achieved through leaderly acts that have often emerged from unexpected places. The motivations and inspiration behind these acts cannot be explained through the usual leadership semantics. Instead, we look to what we have termed ‘unleadership’, not a lack or absence of leadership but paying attention to the everyday, seemingly unremarkable leaderly acts and practices.

Transformative Leadership Practices is a unique, reflective and practical programme that explores the power of these leaderly acts; along with the underlying mindsets and personal and interpersonal qualities sustaining them.

What do I get out of it?

This programme will help you to:

  • Broaden your imagination of how ‘unleading’ can complement and develop leadership practices.
  • Build your understanding of how uneadership can positively affect, support and develop your areas of responsibility and make a difference in the communities you live and work in
  • Develop your repertoire of transformative leadership acts and practices and new ways of working.
  • Gain insight into working effectively, collaboratively and confidently in complexity and ambiguity, guided by your sense of purpose.

Benefits for employers

  • Release the positive energy and collective wisdom within staff.
  • Develop leadership capacity and impact to create positive change in key areas of the organisation.
  • Develop a workforce who embrace the different challenges posed by working with uncertainty and complexity.
  • Nurture your employee’s leadership agency and influence and take responsibility for further fostering it across their networks.
  • Tap into new ways of working amongst staff, responding to collective challenges more quickly under a shared sense of purpose.

Dates & Fees

October 2023 CohortTimeLocation
31 October 202309:30 – 16:30Frenchay Campus
1 November 202309:30 – 16:30Frenchay Campus
2 November 202309:30 – 16:30Frenchay Campus

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Short courses from the Centre for Print Research

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The Centre for Print Research (CFPR) offers a series of dynamic continuing professional development courses (CPD) aimed at a wide audience including artists, designers, craftspeople, communicators, photographers, teachers and managers. CPD courses offer the opportunity for professional updating, learning new skills and techniques, and for intellectual stimulus.

CFPR is a research centre within UWE Bristol. It has links and partnerships with world leading academic institutions; an outstanding track record in working with industry; and works collaboratively with high profile artists, studios, contemporary makers and galleries.

More courses will be added in the next couple of weeks.

View all the courses.

Upcoming courses:

Introduction to Analogue Black and White Photography for Printmakers – 11 & 12 July

This two-day workshop focusses on 35mm black and white film photography and darkroom processes, using analogue cameras and working in a traditional darkroom. Participants will explore the ins-and-outs of manual analogue cameras, how to correctly expose and develop traditional 35mm film, making contact sheets and prints in the darkroom from their negatives to archival exhibition standards.

This course will re-engage artists and printmakers with traditional 35mm film photography and maybe even with their own cameras that have laindormant for a while. It is as much an introduction to analogue photography for newcomers as well as a refresher for lapsed photographers wanting to return to darkroom days of years gone by.

Unblocking your Artist’ Book Block! – 12 & 13 July 2023

The two-day practical course will give participants the time and opportunity to engage with many different creative book-making techniques in order to overcome any creative block. In the first half of the course we will make three completely new books using a variety of generative methods and then in the second half we will concentrate on making a final personal book project using the participants ideas and after consultation with the tutor. The emphasis will be on the enjoyment of creative energy, sometimes working in collaboration with the other people on the course. You will go away with a selection of new books you have created and with the skills and confidence to carry on making in your own time. This course will take place at UWE Frenchay Campus.

Let’s Lino! Workshop – 17 – 21 July 2023

This course is Lino Printing 101. It will give an overview of the whole lino printing process, including drawing designs, transferring designs onto lino blocks, carving and printing. There are many methods of printing to explore: single colour, multiple block, reduction lino printing: the possibilities are endless and importantly, very exciting.

This course will enable any beginner to understand the fundamentals of lino cutting, mark making and translating images into print. It will equip you with skills and techniques needed to continue making your own prints at home.

  • Full Price £399.00 / Concessionary Price £320.00 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutors: Ellie Rose & Carinna Parraman
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Advanced Tetra Pak Printmaking – 25 & 26 July 2023

With its layers of paperboard, polyethylene and aluminium foil, Tetra Pak not only has an immediacy which other collagraph materials lack, but also a satisfying tactility when cutting, scoring, peeling and printing with this distinctive material. During this advanced two-day Tetra Pak collagraph print workshop, the course tutor, Stephen Fowler, will facilitate the exploration of multi tetra pak plate prints which explore colour overlay, and the combination of intaglio and relief collagraph print processes. This course is ideally suited to for artists, educators, printmakers, and illustrators who have some experience in collagraph printmaking, or have attended one Stephens previous Tetra Pak printmaking courses before. This course will take place at UWE Frenchay Campus.

Introduction to Woodbury Type and Woodbury Gravure Prinkmaking – 27 & 28 July 2023

Participants will learn how to prepare images for Woodburytype and Woodbury Gravure. They will learn how to use the laser cutter, how to prepare inks for Woodburytype and what inks to use for Woodbury Gravure. Particiapants will use the laser cutter to make plates for Woodburytype and Woodbury Gravure and print with gelatine inks and relief inks.

Woodburytype was the first commercially successful photomechanical reproduction method. It was later replaced by lithography in commercial printing. It is a continuous tone and gives a very special image quality. The continuous tone Woodbury Gravure is even more obscure and has never taken off commercially. Participants will learn about both techniques.

  • Full Price £249.00 / Concessionary Price £199 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutors: Susanne Klein and Harrie Fuller
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Introduction to Rubber Stamping – 27 July 2023

Stamping is a portable medium, you can take it anywhere, print anywhere, not just on paper but walls, food, and human bodies too. A brick stamp can print a wall, a house, street, town and even a city. During the workshop you will learn how to carve and print stamps. You will leave with a number of stamps, prints and a limited edition publication containing the groups stamp print impressions. This course is ideally suited to for artists, educators, printmakers and illustrators who have some or no experience printmaking.

  • Full Price £129.00 / Concessionary Price £103.00 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutor: Stephen Fowler
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Screenprinting Beginners Workshop – 28 July 2023

This one-day course will give participants a chance to learn about the history of screen printing, learn various techniques – from artworking to coating your own screen, but most importantly to have fun, get inky and engage with the printing process. Participants of the course will leave with their own hand printed artwork. They will also have a good understanding of the process of screenprinting which would give them the confidence to return for future workshops, or to enter any print room and know what to do.

  • Full Price 129.00 / Concessionary Price £103.00 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutor: Laura Clarke Oaten
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Introduction to The Zone System – B&W Photography 7 & 8 August 2023

An Introduction to the Zone System will explore the concept of ‘visualisation’ a method by which the photographer can anticipate the final result before making an exposure. We will look in detail at exposure, how a light meter works and how to accurately interpret light meter readings and how to apply this knowledge to exposure what effect exposure has on film. The Zone System provides photographers with a method to evaluate the tonal range in composition and guides the photographer to adjust the camera’s exposure settings and film development times to best record an image the way the photographer imagines it.

  • Full Price £249.00 / Concessionary Price £199 – Price includes all materials, PPE and catering
  • Course Tutor: Marc Arkless
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Concessionary rate prices: CFPR offer a 20% discounted concessionary rate to UWE Bristol staff, alumni (including previous CFPR CPD attendees), anyone reliant on state benefits for their income, anyone currently in full-time education (worldwide) or part-time higher education (UK), and those who are retired.

Successful Leadership and Management course for SME leaders enters third year of delivery at UWE Bristol

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UWE Bristol is entering its third year delivering the Help to Grow: Management course, designed for business owners, managers and senior decision makers of SMEs from all business sectors.

Designed to be undertaken alongside full time work, Help to Grow: Management is a 12-week course consisting of 50 hours of timetabled activities. SME leaders are supported through the course by Bristol Business School lecturers and industry experts, with a focus on combining academic and real-life business experience. 

Participants enrolled on the course in Year Three will have the opportunity to enhance their leadership and management skills, learning how to develop responsible business practices and recognising what drives productivity and growth in their market. The course consists of 12 modules in a mix of face-to-face and online learning, supported by weekly peer group calls, 1-1 mentoring, and access to a network of other SME leaders through both local and national alumni networks.

The course is 90% subsidised by the government, costing participants just £750. In the first two years, UWE Bristol has guided over two hundred SME leaders through the course, building on the university’s track record of supporting SMEs across the South West.

The course covers strategies for growth and innovation, leading high-performance teams, and digital transformation, as well as financial management and building a brand. SME leaders benefit from the opportunity to step away from the office for a few hours a week, gaining valuable “thinking space” and time to develop a growth action plan.

UWE Bristol Help to Grow: Management Alumni, Natasha Mortimer of Imagineerium, found Help to Grow to be “a super insightful course which has provided me, and the company, with a business toolbox that is crucial for the future, offering a chance to network with other businesses and cultivate a community focused on growth. Here is to a very bright future!”

UWE Bristol are running courses in Bristol and Taunton in the academic year 2023-24.

Find out more about courses available and book your place on our website, or contact the team on helptogrow@uwe.ac.uk.

Previous learner testimonials are available on YouTube through the following link.

Professional Development Course: Flourishing at Work

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UWE Bristol are pleased to be offering a new short course, “Flourishing at Work”.

This is an experiential course, facilitated by James Costello, a leading workplace consultant, psychotherapist and trainer.

The course goes beyond a palliative approach to wellbeing, which assumes stress is a failure of someone to cope with an emotionally challenging workplace, offering instead strategies to forget or survive things. Whether working in classrooms, health-care settings, or hospitality we all recognise the emotional labour of “putting on a show” when we least feel like it.

The pandemic accelerated our understanding of work as a place to go; work instead is a place to be in complex and multi-layered networks of relationships.

Through the use of “One at a Time” in-person experiential workshops, which include both individual and group-work, you will explore issues including:

  • Understanding the pressure-points in the context of your unique setting.
  • Develop your listening skills, enabling you to diffuse emotionally charged situations differently.
  • Learn to notice emotional “triggers” and have different outcomes.
  • Reflect on your negotiating style when resolving conflict.
  • Become more aware of boundary issues regarding relationships that go beyond face-to-face, which includes virtual real-time and out-of-time working.

What you will gain:

  • An understanding of the boundaries between home and work.
  • Insights into working structures to inform change processes in your context.
  • The capacity to understand yourself and others in your context.

If you are interested in this course, the dates and further information can be found below:

DateTimeLocation
27 April 202309:30 – 16:30Bristol Business School, Frenchay Campus
10 May 202309:30 – 16:30Bristol Business School, Frenchay Campus

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If you have any queries, please get in touch using this form.

UWE Bristol to provide a Echocardiography Training Programme

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Following a competitive tendering process, staff from the College of Health, Science and Society at UWE Bristol have been awarded a Health Education England (HEE) contract to provide a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography (Echocardiography Training Programme, ETP). The ETP first ran as a pilot in 2020 and subsequently two HEIs were commissioned to deliver training. This recent HEE procurement for additional training provision is in response to urgent workforce needs.

The term echocardiography refers to medical imaging of the heart using sound waves, similar to the ultrasound scans performed during pregnancy. The procedure is routinely used to look at structures within the heart and to assess its functionality, for example following a heart attack or diagnosis of heart failure. It is also used to diagnose conditions such as congenital heart disease or heart valve problems. There is a significant shortfall in cardiac physiology staffing currently, combined with a substantial increase in demand, especially for staff trained to deliver echocardiography services. As an accelerated training option for individuals with existing relevant qualifications, the ETP provides a means to grow the workforce rapidly, thus reducing waiting times for diagnostic and follow-up appointments.

Dr Karina Stewart, Associate Head of the School of Applied Sciences (Subject Lead for Healthcare Science), Mr Duncan Sleeman (Senior Lecturer in Cardiac Physiology) and Dr Kathryn Yuill (Senior Lecturer in Physiology) lead on submission of the tender response. Dr Stewart said that they were delighted with the outcome. She added that the Level 7 ETP would be an important addition to the portfolio of healthcare science training currently offered at UWE, which includes a degree apprenticeship (Level 6) Cardiac Physiology Practitioner Training Programme (PTP). The team were successful in a bid for HEE funding to purchase equipment and software for simulation of cardiac ultrasound in 2021. This will be key to the delivery of training to ETP students, which will be through a combination of on-campus block weeks and online teaching.

The Health Education England contract is for three years in the first instance. Delivery of the Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Echocardiography will begin in October 2023.

Find out more about our Health Postgraduate courses.

NEW Air Quality courses available

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Following the success of the online offer over the past 3 years the Air Quality Management Resource Centre (AQMRC) in the School of Architecture and Environment, are pleased to once again offer these courses in person on the UWE Bristol Frenchay Campus.

Please click on the links below for further information, to make an enquiry and for information on how to book:

Additionally, there are online materials available from the 06 March 2023.

Delivered with a mixture of self-learning and face-to-face delivery, the courses provide attendees with an opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in the area of Air Quality. The courses will appeal primarily to local authorities, consultancies, government agencies and regulatory bodies and students, in the fields of air quality, planning, transport, architecture, environmental science and public health. These courses are IAQM-accredited. 

Accreditations and partnerships: 

On these courses, delegates cover the basics of air quality management and policy, including what causes air pollution and its effects, before looking at monitoring and modelling techniques using ADMS-Roads. They also learn about the role of planning in air quality and explore how air pollution can be tackled.  

The courses align with the University’s commitment to sustainability.  

Course lead and Associate Professor for Clean Air, Dr Jo Barnes, commented on the success of the courses:   

“Our IAQM-accredited Air Quality CPD short courses, underpinned by our research and teaching, aim to provide a comprehensive overview to enable those with little or no knowledge on the subject, to those with years of experience, the tools and ability to apply their learning in their workplaces. The combination of extensive access to online materials provided in advance, the live presentation and interactivity of the practical sessions, really bring this subject to life and gives delegates the chance to also learn from each other.”  

Course attendee Amelia Rivers, Environmental Health Officer commented:   

“The learning I will apply back at work will be the importance of monitoring air quality when looking at planning applications and really think about the potential effects on air quality the proposed application can have.”  

You can download the full information leaflet below:

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Up-skill yourself with a set of new, professional short-courses, which for the first time can access the option of student loan funding

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UWE Bristol is partaking in a nationwide pilot to trial Higher Education Short Courses, that will give learners the option to apply for Higher Education Short Course (HESC) loans from Student Finance England. At present, UWE Bristol are offering courses worth 30 credits, in the subject areas of architecture, urban design, and the engineering of zero carbon buildings.

All of UWE Bristol’s Higher Education Short Courses have been designed to meet the standard required to be credit bearing, can count towards related degree qualifications, and can be undertaken by UK citizens free-at-the-point-of-delivery through Student Loan Company funding, which is offset against future earnings.

Each course will be delivered over a period of 22 weeks, as evening classes from 6-9pm, to help learners fit their studies around other commitments. Learners will be registered as UWE Bristol students and will have access to our related support services.

For applicants who may be new to higher education, or new to the topic of urban design, architecture and construction, UWE Bristol is offering a foundation level course, between Frenchay Campus and City of Bristol College, Advanced Construction Skills Centre, Hengrove:

For applicants with existing knowledge of both Higher Education and the built environment, UWE Bristol also offers more advanced courses aimed at developing skills in the design and management of zero carbon buildings. These will be delivered both in person at UWE Bristol’s Frenchay Campus and available to access online.

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