Ms Denise Thyer

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

1. Thyer, D. & Croxall, J. (2017). Employability comes full-circle: the student becomes the teacher. In SALT Conference, Swansea University, 11th July 2017

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54044

   https://saltconference2017.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/the-student-becomes-the-teacher-employability-comes-full-circle/

Holl Ymchwil

• PPS121 Professional Development

  This module supports students to complete the first module of the Swansea Employability Academy (SEA) career development course. Students are introduced to the skills needed in applying for jobs and/or moving forward in a career path, including how to recognise and make the most of experience, learning, and knowledge and how to sell themselves effectively.

• PPS317 Professional Development and Critical Thinking

  This module starts with a five-day intensive employability boot camp covering the key skills that are essential in the workplace (Self-management, business and customer awareness, team-working, communication, problem solving & reflective practice). Following this, a work-placement (70+ hours) will be undertaken which can be spread-out over a number of weeks (e.g., one day per week) or over a shorter time period (alternative working patterns can be made in agreement with the module leader). Students will be responsible for self-sourcing a placement for this module. Support, including sign-posting, will be available to help facilitate sourcing. This module is a temporary module which will run for one year only. It is only being offered to students who were unable to enrol on PPS200 due to limited numbers as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

• SHH209 Professional Development and Critical Thinking

  This module will build upon the employability skills students acquired from the first year Professional Development module. It is designed to encourage students to enhance their employability through a supported program of work experience and achievement of the Advanced Career Development Course (previously known as the SEA award). Students will develop key transferable employability skills and achieve specific employability competencies through a mixture of methods including a Presentation, Mock Interview and a Personalised Placement Learning Record. Developing critical thinking and reflexivity in HEI and employment settings will be a cornerstone of this module. Students will be responsible for self-sourcing a placement for this module. Support, including signposting, will be available to help facilitate sourcing. Students will be provided with a placement information pack to provide possible placement providers. In addition, they will be given guidance on appropriate placements and how to approach organisations. Eligibility/ selection criteria for the module: 1. Completed 5 units of the Career Development Course (previously known as the Bronze SEA award) 2. Supporting statement describing your placement, why you would like to take part in this module and what you hope to gain from it (300 ¿ 500 words). 3. A Curriculum Vitae. 4. Attendance record throughout their degree (If mitigating circumstances have affected attendance, these will be considered during selection). 5. This module can take a maximum of 20 students.

• SHS101 Social Enterprise in Health and Social Care

  This module will enable students to identify the primary and secondary needs of society, using theoretical tools to identify how social problems are constructed and responded to. Further, it will introduce the concept of Social Enterprise as a community response to gaps in provisions. The module will enable students to explore the political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental factors of responses to social problems to allow them to evaluate the effectiveness of responses and gaps in provisions.

• SHS201 Being a Social Entrepreneur

  This module will allow students to translate knowledge of social enterprise into action with the development of enterprising skills such as identifying user needs and addressing these needs through collaborative co-design and action, being resourceful and leadership. This is an interactive and practical module aiming to inspire students to social enterprise and entrepreneurship by giving them an experiential introduction to community centered design processes. Students will build upon the knowledge gained in the first year module SHS101 Social Enterprise - An Introduction, progressing through a journey of community centered design, looking at the concept, theory, and design stages of social enterprise, translating this knowledge into a group-based project where they will identify a gap in provisions in their local community, design a social enterprise project as a response to the gap in provisions and pitch their ideas to investors for funding.