Academic Staff Development Programme
Key details: Each individual workshop requires you to book a place through PDMS. You do not need to 'complete' the programme (the workshops all complement each other, but are offered on a stand-alone basis).
Booking not required
Audience
- Academic staff
- Research staff
- Research supervisors
Programme information
The Academic Staff Development Programme (ASDP) is a series of focused, bite-sized workshops designed to equip, support and develop members of academic staff and research staff who teach. Workshops fall under 3 themes (Teaching, PGR Supervision and Development). They are offered once per semester each academic year both in person and online, and draws upon the knowledge, experience and expertise of staff from a variety of schools/units across the University. The ASDP is designed to complement the guidance and mentoring provided within Schools, where appropriate discipline-based support can best be given.
To view and book places on ASDP workshops, select 'Academic Staff Development Programme' from the Programme Filter on the Personal Development Management System (PDMS). Throughout the ASDP we have mapped each of the teaching workshops to the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk). For a full list of each mapping to individual workshops, please visit ASDP teaching workshops | University of St Andrews.
Development
5 courses - these are all optional.
- Embedding gender-inclusive language principles in pedagogical practice
- Wednesday 5 February 2025
- Practical Conflict Resolution Skills for Academics
- Thursday 16 January 2025
- Recruitment and Selection
- Thursday 20 March 2025
- Voice Awareness for Professional Voice Users
- Wednesday 26 February 2025
- What do we mean by leadership? (CELPiE)
- Monday 21 April 2025
PGR Supervision
6 courses - these are all optional.
- Introduction to neurodiversity for PGR supervisors
- Tuesday 29 April 2025
- PhD viva examinations: best practice
- Thursday 13 March 2025
- Preparing for Challenging Conversations with PGRs
- Thursday 17 April 2025
- Supervising part-time PGRs
- Supervision of interdisciplinary PGRs
- Thursday 20 March 2025
- Training for New PGR Supervisors
- Friday 31 January 2025
- Wednesday 19 March 2025
Teaching
15 courses - these are all optional.
- Assessing reflective writing
- Thursday 27 February 2025
- Becoming an External Examiner
- Convening a module
- Wednesday 30 April 2025
- Curriculum Design: Putting Module Proposals through C-View
- Wednesday 26 March 2025
- Deconstructing Ideal Learners & Curriculum Design in HE
- Designing and marking student assessments
- Wednesday 26 March 2025
- Diversifying Student Learning
- Wednesday 19 March 2025
- Education Development Leave Applications Information Workshop
- Effective feedback on student assessments
- Wednesday 12 February 2025
- Effective Lecturing: Lecture Styles for Individual Learners
- Wednesday 2 April 2025
- Module and Curriculum Design: creating effective and constructively aligned modules
- Wednesday 19 February 2025
- Networking Lunch for Academic Staff
- Wednesday 22 January 2025
- Small Group Teaching: Student Engagement through Interactive Teaching
- Wednesday 5 March 2025
- Storytelling for Academics and Researchers: Unleash the Power of Narrative
- Wednesday 23 April 2025
- Theories of Learning
- Tuesday 22 April 2025