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‘Invest in Yourself’ Researcher Skills Development Programme

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RBI is pleased to announce that booking is open for the 2023-24 Invest in Yourself programme. The programme offers skills development and training to UWE Bristol staff engaged in research. UWE researcher staff of all career stages, contract status and job role are warmly invited to take part, and we also welcome research support staff seeking to deepen their expertise.

Find out more about Invest in Yourself, or book directly.

Invest in Yourself supports staff to develop broad skills to support their research careers. It includes workshops and short sessions in areas such as research methods, impact and engagement and bidding. Most longer workshops are offered face-to-face, allowing you to meet colleagues within and outside your discipline and providing networking opportunities, but you will also find a number of short online sessions. These include our ‘Focus On…’ series which gives essential information and starting points on topics such as REF, intellectual property, and engaging with the media. We also host a monthly Writing Space session, where staff and postgraduate researchers can focus on their writing in a supportive environment.

We run a separate programme of skills training for postgraduate research students. For more details, please see the Graduate School’s researcher skills pages. Staff are welcome to join selected sessions in the PGR programme, listed on the Upcoming workshops page on the UWE intranet.  

Upcoming highlights include:
Focus on…REFMonday 25 September 202311:00-12:00
Introduction to Nvivo (2-day course)Monday 2 October 2023 & Tuesday 3 October 202309:30-16:30
LinkedIn for ResearchersWednesday 4 October 202313:00-14:00
Evaluating EngagementWednesday 18 October 202313:00-16:00
Focus on…Getting Your Research into the MediaMonday 30 October 202314:00-15:00
Developing your bidding careerTuesday 31 October 202313:00-15:30
Planning for ImpactMonday 13 November 202314:00-15:30
Focus on…policy engagement 6Monday 27 November 202314:00-15:00
Using InfographicsWednesday 6 December 202313:00-14:00
PGR Supervision MasterclassTuesday 12 December 202312:00-14:00
Introduction to Doctoral SupervisionWednesday 13 December 202409:30-16:30
Project Management for Researchers (1 day)Tuesday 16 January 202409:30-16:30
Crafting your research funding applicationTuesday 19 March 202409:30-12:00
Project Management for Researchers (2 days)Tuesday 21 May & Wednesday 22 May09:30-16:30
Introduction to Nvivo (3 part-days)Monday 3 June & Tuesday 4 June & Wednesday 5 June 202409:30-14:00
The Writing Space (PGR and research staff writing session)Second Monday of every month October 2023 – June 202409:30-12:00

…and much more! For the full list of courses and further dates, please see the Researcher Skills category in MyLearning. This also contains e-learning resources, including compulsory training modules on Research Ethics and Research Data Management.

If you have any questions, please email skillsdevelopment@uwe.ac.uk

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
  • More information
  • Book your place

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
  • More information
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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
  • More information
  • Book your place

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
  • More information
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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
  • More information
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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.

Applications for the award-winning Green Skills for Jobs and Entrepreneurship programme are now open

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Green Skills for Jobs and Entrepreneurship is an innovative programme designed to support young people in the West of England area from Black, Asian and minoritised backgrounds into the emerging green sector. Following eight days paid -in person training, learners will move onto either a fully funded internship or receive support with launching their own sustainable business. Each Green Skills learner will receive 1:1 coaching, mentoring and careers advice tailored to their personal and professional development goals.

Over 50,000 new jobs are set to be created to support the net zero targets for businesses in Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Recognising that the sustainability sector is the second least diverse in the UK, the programme aims to support an inclusive transition to a green economy by bridging structural divides and addressing the underrepresentation of people from minoritised backgrounds in environmental careers.

Learners planting seeds during a workshop facilitated by the Hip Hop Gardeners

The Green Skills Programme will take place over four weeks on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Tuesday 23 May to Wednesday 14 June 2023.

Young people interested in applying for the scheme should see below:

Apply here

Businesses in the region can find out more below:

More information for Businesses

“Green Skills has undoubtedly elevated me into a new level of self-confidence. I once had doubt in my abilities, but now I am coordinating over 200 volunteers in which delivers surplus food to 400 members across the southwest region. I would not have been able to secure such a role without the support and opportunities given to me by the Green Skills Programme. I am and forever will be grateful for that experience. I highly recommend this programme to anyone striving to achieve positive and impactful change in their life.”  

– Zephyr Giddings – Green Skills Learner Zephyr, Green Skills Learner 

“The Green Skills program has been hugely impactful in providing skills, guidance and networks that are desperately needed to help enable minority background individuals into impactful and purposeful careers. In the sessions I delivered, the curiosity, positive energy and problem solving abilities of the learners was clear, they just need support and guidance to channel that into opportunities. I believe the Green Skills program is directly helping to galvanise the learners into brining social and environmental justice into their careers while also bring much needed diversity to the sector.“

– Sara Telahoun, Anthesis 

UWE Bristol launches Skills Bootcamp in Achieving Zero Carbon Buildings to support employers in upskilling their workforce

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UWE Bristol is delivering a 12-week course starting on Friday 13 January 2023 designed to support employers from across the construction, engineering, and related industries to upskill their workforce to meet the current and future challenges of the climate change crisis through achieving zero carbon buildings.

Funded by the Department of Education, as part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life’ our 12–week Skills Bootcamp will give learners the skills and knowledge of the role that modern methods of construction (MMC) and new digital technologies have in delivering zero carbon. With one-day per week of learning, learners will explore these challenges through diverse and hands-on learning activities, case studies and live discussions to develop fundamental knowledge and then enhance those skills to take back and embed into their organisations and own roles.

Why is this Skills Bootcamp beneficial to my organisation?

Employers in the construction industry require people ready to face the challenges of a changing sector that needs to rapidly modernise and decarbonise. Recently the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and the Construction Leadership Council have emphasised the use of industrialised manufacturing (MMC) and digital technologies as key to unlocking current competitiveness and sustainability issues in the industry.

As such, the industry is in urgent need of individuals:

  • with knowledge and awareness of MMC and the required integration of a complex supply chain working under just-in-time conditions.
  • that are digitally literate and capable of working with Building Information Modelling (BIM)
  • with knowledge and awareness of best sustainable practice, how to measure carbon footprints and how to implement effective carbon and energy reduction measures in new and retrofitted buildings.
  • able to collaborate and be part of a team.

By upskilling your workforce through our Skills Bootcamp in Achieving Zero Carbon Buildings, employers are committing to providing their employee with the opportunity of a new role or taking on additional responsibility in their current role, utilising the skills learnt. In return employers will benefit from an able and ready workforce to tackle future challenges in sustainable buildings and contribute to business and sector growth.

Across the 12 weeks learners will explore:

  • Session 1 – Introduction to Skills Bootcamp
  • Session 2 – Introduction to the Climate Change & the Net-Zero Carbon Building’s Challenge ​
  • Session 3 – Building Services & Zero Carbon ​
  • Session 4 – Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) for Zero Carbon (approaches and systems)
  • Session 5 – Site visit
  • Session 6 – Retrofitting for Zero Carbon
  • Session 7 – New Technologies for Zero Carbon (digital)
  • Session 8 – Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) for Zero Carbon (logistics and coordination)
  • Session 9 – Industry Symposium; Skills Development and Mentorship ​
  • Session 10 – New Technologies for Zero Carbon (MEP)
  • Session 11 – Learner presentations – How to Achieve Zero Carbon on Real Buildings?
  • Session 12 – Industry Symposium; Skills Development and Mentorship

Bootcamp fees

Skills Bootcamps are heavily funded for employers to access impactful training for their workforce to help to meet their industry’s current and future challenges. For this bootcamp, employers will be required to contribute the following fee per an employee:

  • SME organisation contribution (per employee)   £420
  • Large organisation contribution (per employee) £1,260

Eligibility

Skills Bootcamp learners must meet the following basic eligibility criteria:

  • Be aged 19 plus
  • Not currently in full-time or part-time education
  • Have the right to live and work in the UK
  • Live in England
  • Have not registered and attended (including partial completion) any other skills bootcamp in between April 2022-March 2023 from any provider.

Full information and registration.

Or contact the UWE Bristol Skills Bootcamps Team on: bootcamps@uwe.ac.uk or 0117 32 86303

Black History Month 2022: Skills focus

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As part of Black History Month 2022, we are spotlighting individuals working around the following themes:

  • Skills
  • Innovation
  • Research
  • Business

This week we are focusing on Skills:

UWE Bristol in partnership with Black South West Network and NatWest are working to deliver the Green Skills for Jobs and Entrepreneurship (Green Skills) programme. This is an initiative funded by the UK Government’s Community Renewal Fund (CRF) and managed by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) on behalf of the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).  

Green Skills is a unique and transformational programme that provides access to jobs, training and business opportunities to Black, Asian and minoritised young people (aged 18-28) and recent graduates living in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Bath and Northeast Somerset.  

Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees joined our most recent cohort of learners on one of our programme delivery days, where he spoke to learners about leadership, the Bristol One City plan and the city’s declaration of a climate and ecological emergency drawing on its intersection with racial and social justice and the need for a just and inclusive transition to a greener workforce.   

‘It was fantastic to meet with young people taking part in the Green Skills for Jobs programme and discuss their concerns and ideas for responding to the climate crisis. It is particularly encouraging to see minoritised communities representing the full diversity of our city given space to engage in these issues and bring solutions to the table.  

We know the impacts of the climate crisis will disproportionately impact minoritised groups, both locally and globally. We also know that there is a huge opportunity for young people to benefit from green jobs and skills, where there is growing demand and expansion. This programme highlights the need to tackle economic and climate justice together and I look forward to seeing what the group go on to do next.“

UWE Bristol launches new and accredited Digital Marketing Bootcamp for employers to upskill their staff or individuals looking to change career

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UWE Bristol is delivering a 12-14 week course designed to provide individuals with high-impact workplace skills that they can immediately input into their organisation or use to help them find a new role. With one-day per week of learning, learners will be able to gain the DMI Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing and boost their CV.  

Funded by West of England Combined Authority, our 12–14-week bootcamp will give learners the skills and knowledge to become a digital marketer. Each week will focus on a specific area of digital marketing to develop fundamental knowledge and then enhance those skills through interactive activities.

The training will be offered to two separate cohorts to support more individuals as below:

Cohort 1 – Young adults (19 – 26), women and underrepresented groups currently unemployed or looking to start or progress their career in digital marketing.

Starts Wednesday 12 October 2022

Cohort 2 – individuals employed in an SME in the region, looking to develop or enhance their digital marketing skills to take on new responsibilities or a new role within their organization.

Starts Wednesday 11 January 2023

Individuals who are not employed within Digital Marketing and are looking to start a new career can register for cohort 1 and will be supported with the skills to work in the industry alongside support to boost CV and LinkedIn profiles to attract potential new employment.

Employers can put their employees forward for cohort 2, or employees can apply individually. As the employees move through the training they will develop a portfolio of work based on existing work-based problems to enable the learning to have an instant impact and they will also be supported with a personal development plan to support career development.

Once registered onto our digital marketing bootcamp you automatically become a member of the DMI which means you get access to an extensive toolkit of resources, e-books, podcasts, lessons and much more, all of which can greatly support your learning and career beyond this training.

Course Content

  • Session 1 – Introduction to Digital Marketing​
  • Session 2 – Content Marketing ​
  • Session 3 – Social Media Marketing ​
  • Session 4 – Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) ​
  • Session 5 – Pay Per Click ​
  • Session 6 – YouTube and Display ​
  • Session 7 – Email Marketing ​
  • Session 8 – Website Optimisation​
  • Session 9 – Analytics ​
  • Session 10 – Digital Marketing Strategy​
  • Session 11 – Revision & Career Development Planning​
  • Session 12 – Revision & Career Development Planning
  • Session 13 – 14 – CV development, Linkedin, Interview prep and employability skills 

Eligibility

Our bootcamps are open to individuals and businesses located in the West of England region (Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bath and Northeast Somerset, and North Somerset). While each cohort has a primary targeted audience, we will consider applications from anyone who meets the basic eligibility criteria of being based in the west of England.

  • Be aged 19+
  • Have the right to live and work in the UK
  • Not have taken or be undertaking any other funded skills bootcamp in 2022
  • Live or be working for an employer; or looking to gain employment in the West of England region

Full information and register your interest here.

Registrations now open for Year Two of the Help to Grow: Management Programme 

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After a successful first year of the Help to Grow: Management training programme, registrations are now open for Year Two at UWE Bristol. 

Help to Grow: Management is a 12-week practical training programme for senior managers of small and medium enterprises that aims to help boost performance, resilience, and long-term growth of their businesses. Delivered through a blend of online and face-to-face learning, the course covers strategies for growth and innovation, leading high-performance teams, and digital adoption, as well as financial management and responsible business practices. 

Learners engage in regular peer group calls, have access to 10 hours of one-to-one mentor support, hear from guest speakers and have access to join other SME leaders through both local and national alumni networks. 

By the end of the programme, participants will develop a tailored business growth plan to help increase productivity and revenue and thus take their business to the next level.  

Help to Grow: Management is 90% subsidised by the government and costs just £750. Designed to be undertaken alongside full-time work, the twelve modules require 50 hours of commitment to timetabled activities.  

In our first year, UWE Bristol has guided over one hundred SME leaders through the programme, building on the university’s proven track record of supporting SMEs across the South-West. UWE Bristol has held the Small Business Charter since 2015 indicating a strong track record in working with, supporting and developing businesses. Those completing the programme have benefitted from the expertise of UWE module facilitators – Senior Lecturers at Bristol Business School who combine academic and real-life business experience. Additionally, learners have been supported throughout the course by a dedicated project support team enabling the smooth running of the programme and excellent pastoral care.  

UWE Bristol Help to Grow: Management Alumni, Robert Ogden of Renewable Exchange commented:  

“The programme gives you a very broad coverage of a lot of relevant business topics. For me personally, the mentoring sessions were a great way to take the entire course material, distil down what I found most relevant to Renewable Exchange and then turn these into actionable changes. Some of these changes can be fairly significant, for example, we’ve now opened an office in Germany which is our first international market. But, quite a lot of the changes that you might look to make are fairly small and quick improvements and just those marginable gains that improves the way the business functions and considers problems, and I found these to be really helpful for Renewable Exchange.  

If you’re looking for ways to grow your business, and if you go in with the right open-minded attitude and can commit the necessary time to learning and taking action off the back of it, then you’ve got a really great chance of getting some success out of your investment into the programme, so I would definitely recommend it.” 

UWE Bristol Programme Director, Dan Knox commented: 

“We at Bristol Business School are rightly proud of our long-standing commitment to regional businesses and communities, and especially pleased to have supported so many businesses on the Help to Grow: Management programme.  The depth and breadth of support that this programme offers is unrivalled nationally and really gives SME leaders the time, the space and the tools to step back from day-to-day operations in order to think strategically. We look forward to welcoming many more businesses to the programme in 2022-23 and to continuing to support our alumni to find the most appropriate ways for them to continue to grow and to engage with further opportunities in the regional and national business development ecosystem.”   

UWE Bristol are running courses across the South West, including Bristol, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Cornwall through the academic year 2022-23.  

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

Time for SMEs in the West of England to seize the opportunities from the transition to net zero

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Calling SMEs across the West of England region – now is the time to plan for net zero with fully funded support from the Skills for Clean Growth programme.
 
The pace of change in the economy and legislative environment is accelerating as business leaders and politicians look to reach ambitious targets to reduce carbon intensity at a regional, national and international level. The West of England has gone beyond the commitments of central government with the ambition to reach net zero across the region by 2030.

At the same time, consumers, businesses and investors are growing in appetite for products and services that have a positive environmental impact and are driving decarbonisation.

By embracing low carbon practices, you will help position your business to prosper in this rapidly changing world.

Skills for Clean Growth will support you to grow your business in a sustainable way by upskilling your management team and employees to drive change and the adoption of low carbon practices.

Free expert support from the Skills for Clean Growth programme

The Skills for Clean Growth programme (part of the West of England’s Workforce for the Future Programme and being delivered by UWE Bristol and NatWest) is supporting SMEs to manage the risks and embrace the opportunities from the transition to net zero. Driven by the needs of businesses on the programme, training is focused on support that is immediately actionable.
 
SMEs are supported with analysing their skills needs & action planning before being given access to bespoke training, resources, and peer networks to help reach their targets.

Current workshops topics include Green Energy Procurement and Management, Measuring Carbon Emissions, and Behavioural Change, with new training and resources continually developed in response to the needs of businesses engaging with the programme.

Register now to start your clean growth journey .

“There is a climate emergency and everyone is going to have to do their bit to help build a greener future. As we change the way we make goods and retrofit our homes we will need a newly skilled workforce. That is of course also a significant opportunity to create high skilled, well paid, green jobs. I’m pleased to be able to offer this support so workers will get the skills they need to meet the demands of a greener economy.”
Dan Norris, Mayor, West of England Combined Authority

Launch event

Join us on Wednesday 25 May to find out about the programme and the opportunities available to businesses.

This event will bring together key stakeholders and SMEs on the programme, whilst providing an overview of the overall Workforce for the Future programme and the support available through Skills for Clean Growth. There will be several speaker slots from key partners, UWE Bristol academics and industry leaders with a green skills and low carbon focus.

This launch event is open to eligible SMEs on the Workforce for the Future programme. To be eligible for support, you must have a business presence in the West of England (Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset) and be a small or medium sized enterprise (SME). If you are eligible and new to the Workforce for the Future programme, please register your details here.

Develop your workforce in other areas through Workforce for the Future

Skills for Clean Growth is being delivered by UWE Bristol and NatWest as part of the West of England Combined Authorities Workforce for the Future programme, supporting SMEs with skills development across a range of future focused areas. Support is funded through the European Social Fund and is being delivered across a number of partners.

Find out about support available through Workforce for the Future.

Contact the team to find out more – cleangrowth@uwe.ac.uk or visit our website.

Free Digital Skills workshops for SMEs

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UWE Bristol are offering free & comprehensive Digital Marketing support for SMEs based in the West of England.  

The support is part of Workforce for the Future, a free service that will help SMEs to identify and address their skills needs, by upskilling and retraining employees, or supporting them to source and bring in new staff to drive their business forwards. 

What Support is Available? 

As part of our diverse offer, we will show you how to harness the power of digital with in-depth 1:1 support with expert advisors. We can help you with:

  • Introduction to Digital Marketing  
  • Digital Marketing Strategy Workshop   
  • Follow up & review sessions with consultants to develop your strategy  
  • SEO  
  • Social media, analytics and advertising    

Across the programme, your business and your employees will be able to access a bespoke combination of support via the below strands: 

  • Leadership & strategy 
  • People, Culture & Organisation 
  • Customer Insight & Interaction 
  • Process Operations & Data 
  • Technology & Security 

You will work with UWE Bristol to define an action plan of learning based on your specific needs. All courses are delivered as part of Workforce for the Future.  

How do I access the support?

To access the support and courses your organisation must be registered with Workforce for the Future Program.  Please contact us to register at: digitalworkforce@uwe.ac.uk  or register your interest via this form.

UWE Bristol is delivering Workforce for the Future on behalf of the West of England Combined Authority. If it is determined that your development needs do not fit with the digital enhancement opportunities available at UWE Bristol, you will be referred to the West of England Combined Authority Growth Hub, who will refer you to a more suitable partner.