Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Get the skills you need to progress your career, with professional development courses from Newcastle University.
What does CPD stand for?
CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development.
CPD sets your career on the right path
Are you considering a career change? Are you looking to:
- progress within your team
- change roles
- keep up to date with the latest developments?
If so, continuing professional development (CPD) can help to set your career on the right path.
At Newcastle University, we offer a broad range of professional development courses. They're designed to help you gain from the latest expertise and reach your full potential.
Helping you to achieve goals and progress
CPD makes learning proactive. It’s an ongoing process of lifelong learning that can help you achieve your goals. It can help you progress in your career, whatever stage you’re at. Check out our introduction to CPD video or read on to find out more about how CPD could benefit you.
Our professional development courses
Our professional development courses combine world-leading research with specialist expertise. You can develop the knowledge you need to succeed in a competitive market.
We can provide short courses or longer-term programmes that will make a real impact on your future career. These can help you:
- develop your leadership and management skills
- build specialist expertise for your industry
Many of our CPD courses accredited by professional bodies. You'll be confident that the training you receive will be:
- high-quality
- tailored to your industry
- recognised by employers
We also offer courses that provide academic credits. They can help support any future study you choose to do.
Browse our full list of CPD courses:
Introduction to Ageing for Innovators - available online now
Learn how ageing affects individuals and businesses, and the opportunities it brings for innovation, in this online course created by experts from our National Innovation Centre for Ageing.
Autism Clinical Interview for Adults (ACIA)
Learn how to administer and complete the Autism Clinical Interview for Adults materials, and gain access to free of charge ACIA schedules to enable professionals to make reliable Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnoses in adults and teenagers aged 16+.
Complete beginners will learn some basic knowledge of Mandarin Chinese. They'll also experience the culture, practice daily dialogues and learn how to read and write Chinese characters.
Gain a better understanding of, and familiarity with, basic Chinese language and culture.
Further your knowledge and understanding of Chinese after learning some basic Chinese language.
Develop to intermediate-level integrated skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking Chinese.
Develop vocabulary, Chinese characters, and practical reading in daily life and business.
Further your comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Chinese.
Develop advanced practical skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking Chinese.
Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Preparation Course 1
Learn practical Chinese language skills that include:
- introducing members of family and classmates
- expressing how you feel, time and place
- basic polite expressions
- basic knowledge for daily shopping
Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Preparation Course 2
Learn practical Chinese language skills such as:
- how to order food in a restaurant or talk about weather
- transportation and health
- how to ask for directions
- basic vocabulary for employment and study
Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Preparation Course 3
Learn practical Chinese language skills including:
- how to describe family and social life
- detailed dining expressions
- detailed health statements
- how to express opinions
Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) Preparation Course 4
Learn practical Chinese language skills for:
- basic communication strategies including understanding standard and clear conversation at social occasions
- describing experiences and expressing opinions
- understanding the main content of news broadcasts
Adaptive Designs & Multiple Testing Procedures CPD
Develop your clinical trials skills and discover how to use adaptive design to develop more efficient, informative and ethical clinical trials.
Part-time Coaching & Mentoring MSc
Master coaching and mentoring skills for transformative development. Build your confidence in a range of professional contexts enhancing your organisational and individual performance.
CPD webinars through to practical content which link to the General Dental Council development outcomes, helping the dental team meet their verifiable requirements.
Change career paths and become a software engineer, or develop digital knowledge to help in your current role, through this conversion programme open to anyone with a previous degree.
Digital and technology solutions (Data analytics specialist) degree apprenticeship
Gain advanced data science skills, from data visualisation to machine learning, and help your company become more data driven.
Digital and technology solutions (Cyber security specialist) degree apprenticeship
Help protect your workplace against cyber threats by gaining the skills needed to become a successful cyber security professional.
Quantifying Energy Decision Making
Learn to physically and economically quantify energy decision making through energy science concepts, supply contexts, issues influencing energy project evaluation, and economic appraisal methods.
Renewable Energy Systems and Smart Grids
Learn fundamental engineering principles of all major sources of renewable energy, including a detailed understanding of its conversion into electricity and subsequent distribution.
Gain technology knowledge relating to to Industrial Automation and manufacturing applications covering: Introduction to Distributed Control Systems (DCS); Communication networks for DCSs; Network Protocols; Controller Area Network and CANopen.
Learn the fundamentals of air pollution including a historical perspective, current air quality policies and standards, the sources and effects of major pollutants, and methods to estimate air pollution emissions from road transport and industrial sources.
Core Concepts in Environmental Engineering
Acquire knowledge and understanding of the physical, chemical, biological sciences which underpin Environmental Engineering and sustainability of the environment, appropriate for a practising environmental engineer.
Environmental Engineering for Developing Countries
Gain an insight into water supply, sanitation, hygiene and disease in developing countries, water resource and environmental engineering interventions, and related social, economic and institutional issues.
Introduction to Practical Hydraulics
Learn the founding concepts of hydraulics and how they can be applied to problems in drainage, sewer design, water supply and the specification of pumps, aimed at those without traditional engineering training.
Gain an understanding of technical issues and the management of solid wastes, including both domestic and international policy, and appropriate methods of storage, collection, transfer, treatment and disposal appropriate for industrialised and developing countries.
Develop an understanding of physical, chemical and biological principles in wastewater assessment and treatment, and develop analytical and molecular microbial ecology skills through laboratory analysis of wastewater and sludge samples.
Gain an understanding of the legal, health and technical aspects of treating water for drinking and industrial purposes, and the principles involved in the design and selection of unit processes for a water treatment plant.
Quantitative Ecological Research Methods
Learn practical, technical and statistical approaches to survey design and description of ecological change in marine and terrestrial habitats and species.
Gain an understanding of risk-based approaches to contaminated land, traditional, and more recent innovative alternative techniques for its reclamation in the UK.
Learn both theory and practice of using Network Real-time kinematic (RTK) Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) for centimetre-level positioning to enhance surveying skills.
Explore GNSS error sources and examine ways of mitigating errors in a highly practical course, to develop accuracy and precision for those familiar with basic GNSS and Network RTK.
This module will provide an introduction to the engineering properties of soils and rocks.
Develop your knowledge of geomaterials and their use in industry.
Discover the design and assessment of slopes, pitwalls, excavations, and tailing dams.
Foundation Design and Retaining Structures
Build on principles of soil mechanics and discover their use in foundations design.
Soil Modelling and Numerical Methods
This module will give you an introduction to the models describing the behaviour of soil.
Gain an understanding of the fundamental and some advanced principles of structural reliability, and their application through a number of realistic problems, both analytically and numerically.
Leadership in Health Informatics: An Introduction
An introduction to leadership in the context of health informatics, within the structures of the NHS and social care.
Introduction to Health Information Systems Interoperability
Explore the role and usage of interoperability standards within healthcare information systems and the organisations that create and maintain these standards.
Human Computer Interaction in Healthcare
An introduction into the field of human computer interaction as a field of research and gain an understanding about how its interface design is critically important in context of digital health.
Gain an overview of Clinical Information System (CIS) in healthcare and learn how Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) can assist human-decision making and lead to improved care outcomes.
Explore ethical considerations around digital innovation in healthcare and health systems and how digital ethics such as artificial intelligence and data collection and reuse apply in health contexts.
Learn the basics, and the capabilities, structure and content and of SNOMED CT, the NHS's electronic health records system, through hands-on activities.
Learn fundamental concepts of cyber security and gain understanding of information system security requirements and good practices to establish a security culture.
Data Privacy and Protection in Healthcare
Gain an understanding of the key provisions of GDPR applicable to health data and the rights and obligations associated with processing it.
An introduction to understanding how digital information and enabling technologies based on such information are influencing current medical practices and the possibilities for the future.
Clinical Informatics in Practice
A practical session on the Design and Implementation of a large Health Informatics Transformation Programme in the NHS.
Human Tissue Act (Research Sector) Training - available online now
Learn about best practice when working with human tissue, and how to ensure compliance with the Human Tissue Act in the research sector.
Level 5 Operations or Departmental Manager Higher Apprenticeship
Develop skills and knowledge to lead teams and projects effectively and become empowered to influence and drive change within your organisation.
Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship leading to PG Dip in Management Studies
Build your leadership capacity and address organisation needs whilst combining work and study. Progression to full masters available to further support your personal development.
Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship leading to PG Dip in Strategic Leadership
Build your leadership capacity and address organisation needs whilst combining work and study. Progression to full masters available to further support your personal development.
Develop your leadership skills to shape organisations whilst tackling and developing solutions around the future of work in a global and societal context.
Part-time Strategic Leadership MSc
Develop as a strategic leader with transformative skills, capability and confidence in complex systems, innovation and change, and sustainability in a global context.
Considering a part-time Masters in marine engineering? If you're looking to continue working whilst being able to study, explore our MTEC. Find out more about our Marine Technology Education Consortium MTEC programme here at Newcastle.
Alternatively, individual CPD modules are listed below:
Fundamentals of Offshore, Subsea & Pipeline Engineering
An introduction to the fundamentals of offshore, subsea and pipeline engineering, its systems, safety and environmental issues, offshore surveying, and other wider ocean engineering issues.
Reliability and Integrity Management of Marine Systems
Gain an understanding of risk and reliability relating to integrity management decisions in a marine context, and how hazards are assessed and quantified using industry recognised techniques of FMECA and HAZOP.
Marine Risers, Umbilicals and Mooring Lines
Gain an understanding of different configurations, components and equipment used in marine risers, umbilicals, and mooring lines and develop computing software skills for their design and dynamic analysis.
TEDEI - Training in Early Detection for Early Intervention - available online now
Learn to detect early atypical motor behaviour in infants 0-6 months old. Relevant to those working with infants, especially front-line community healthcare professionals.
Gain an introduction to how evidence gap maps (EGMs) are used to review evidence
Renewable Energy: Air Pollution
Learn the fundamentals of air pollution including a historical perspective, current air quality policies and standards, the sources and effects of major pollutants, and methods to estimate air pollution emissions from road transport and industrial sources.
Renewable Energy: Energy from the Earth
Discover how both traditional and renewable energy supplies are extracted from the Earth.
Renewable Energy: Energy Management
Gain an overview of political, environmental and fiscal issues affecting energy management and gain practical tools and techniques to actively manage energy and identify energy efficiency opportunities in your workplace.
Renewable Energy: Environmental Impact Assessment
Learn the principles and practice of the EIA process and gain hands-on experience and skills.
Renewable Energy: Introduction to Hydro, Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy
Learn more about hydro, wind, wave and tidal energy.
Renewable Energy: Introduction to Photovoltaics
The aim of the Introduction to Photovoltaics Module is to introduce primarily non-engineering students to the photovoltaics technologies available.
Renewable Energy: Policy, Politics and Ethics
Gain an appreciation of the political and ethical context of renewable energy at international, national and local level to be able to critically review Government energy strategies.
Renewable Energy: Quantifying Energy Decision Making
This module has been developed to enable business enterprise students to physically and economically quantify energy decision making.
Technology for Circular and Hydrogen Economies
The aim of the module is to provide students with comprehensive and systematic knowledge to support the integration and use of hydrogen.
Asphalt Materials and Pavements
A landmark in training, this course is the leading edge of education in the highways sector providing up-to-date knowledge of all aspects of the industry, relevant to all from experienced professionals to trainees.
Behavioural Models for Individual Choices
Gain an understanding of the theory of decision making, and the ability to model and forecast how individuals make decisions, to aid planning, policy and prediction.
Railway Management, Economics and Planning
This week long programme comprises three elements which together make up the Courses in Railways CPD offering.
Courses in Road Safety: Collision Prevention and Reduction
Understand the scale and nature of the road accident problem in the UK, national and local transport policy, recent road safety developments, and how to manage the safety process.
Courses in Road Safety: Road Safety Audits
Learn how road accidents happen and are recorded, and how to use and interpreting accident data to understand and prevent future accidents.
Courses in Road Safety: Road Safety Policy
Learn how to structure a road safety audit report and identify common problems.
Design of Transport Infrastructure
Understand the constraints and challenges in creating sustainable transport infrastructure, how current road design standards were derived, safety issues, and material, design and maintenance requirements
Borehole Design, Construction and Operation
In this module, you'll get an introduction to a variety of types of boreholes and wells, their use, design, and operation.
Climate Change: Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation
Gain a detailed understanding of the principles and practice of implementing all aspects of boreholes, including site selection, design, drilling, investigation, test pumping, and long-term maintenance.
Understand the hazards and risks associated with climate change in built and natural environments, the engineering adaptation strategies needed, and how to apply an assessment framework for risks and adaptations for different cities.
Gain a robust and practical introduction to assessment techniques, and methods of presenting and interpreting natural groundwater quality data for ground water resource assessment.
Groundwater Assessment – Geological mapping
The aim of the course is to have an appreciation of the data available via the BGS for the generation of 2D and 3D cross sections for the development of conceptual and numerical modelling.
Develop practical groundwater modelling skills using MODFLOW and other industry standard related packages, to develop a deep understanding of subsurface flow regimes.
Solid Waste and Resource Management
In this module, you'll get an understanding of the technical issues and the management of resources and solid waste.
Learn about the treatment of domestic and industrial wastewaters.