We facilitate the delivery of training and education that addresses important skills gaps in the health and care workforce, provide the next generation of researchers and practitioners with inspiring placement opportunities, and drive forward an agenda of inclusion.
This is achieved by creating opportunities for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to access transformative learning experiences, from work experience, to doctorates, to an extensive offer of continued professional development.
The Training and Education pillar is organised into three themes
- Transforming Practice
- Inspiring the Next Generation
- Building Research and Innovation Capacity
Aim
Combine academic, health professional, and industry expertise from a range of disciplines to deliver a transformative programme of training and education that addresses one or more of the Global Challenges, providing a superb student experience.
Objectives
- To raise awareness, through knowledge transfer, of healthy living behaviours and innovative practices that help people to move.
- To deliver a programme of Continued Professional Development (CPD) that supports professionals working in practice, across a range of workforce sectors, to deliver and drive forward health and wellbeing practices for tomorrow’s world.
- To provide opportunities that enable professionals (including ECRs) to build their research and innovation capacity and support ideation.
- In partnership with educational and industrial partners, contribute to training and education programmes that enable health and care professionals to develop their skills in digital and AI driven technologies, so that they are well equipped to use the latest solutions in health and care.
- To support the delivery of doctoral programmes and apprenticeships, and the training of the next generation of researchers who can work across academia and industry
- Introduce learners (early on in their education/career) to the practice of research and innovation, creating opportunities that allow them to contribute to research and enable them to simultaneously learn from, and progress, real-world projects.
- Ensure the AWRC is permeable and accessible to academics with varying degrees of teaching and learning commitments and aspirations to develop a research portfolio.
- Meaningfully engage the public with the work of the AWRC through activities that provide an opportunity to raise awareness of practice and research, including career pathways, in the field of health, wellbeing and physical activity.
