Online CPD Courses

Trinity College Dublin is working on a suite of new online Continuous Professional Development courses.

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History of the Irish Economy

This module focuses on how various pressures and policies have shaped the development of the Irish economy over time. This will be achieved by connecting the forces at work that influence the Irish economy, from local to global, and the options available to policymakers to the outcomes of interest. Policy options include fiscal, monetary/macro-prudential and trade-related policies, while the “success metrics” of relevance to Irish policymakers include income, population, employment, inequality and prices. Click the link below to learn more and to register.

Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH)

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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Microbiology

Are you looking to enhance your knowledge and stay updated in the evolving field of pharmaceutical microbiology. Our short course builds upon 30 years of teaching excellence in microbiology for manufacturing as part of the MSc in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology. This short course builds upon our expertise in this area and is designed to educate and update participants in pharmaceutical microbiology practice and regulation in a manageable and easily accessible way.

Department: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Workplace Wellbeing

Wellbeing is a core value of most societies, albeit conceptualised, defined, and promoted in diverse ways. Deriving primarily from a psychological perspective, this course introduces participants to a sociotechnical systems model of workplace wellbeing, contextualising the organisation’s role between individual’s own wellbeing management, the services, infrastructure and policies in society and the physical infrastructure and technological environment.

Department: School of Psychology

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Sustainable Green Organisation

Sustainability is as much about people as it is about energy and economics. This course introduces participants to a sociotechnical systems model of sustainable organisations, contextualising the organisation’s role between individual decision-making and the services, infrastructure, technology and policies in society.

Department: School of Psychology

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Understanding and Managing Risk in the Workplace

The course seeks to influence and change practice towards a more predictive risk-based, data-driven process of implementing change and innovation. This is a highly practical course that introduces students to a novel risk governance platform that facilitates the implementation of a risk-based applied project within the student’s operational area and will be supported by ongoing mentoring.

Department: School of Psychology

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Impact Evaluation Methods: An Interactive and Collaborative Course

This 5-week online short course in Impact Evaluation Methods provides participants with a strong grounding in Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), quasi-experimental methods, process evaluations, and quantitative methods for understanding impact. Participants will have an opportunity to develop their own design for an impact evaluation. On successful completion of the course, you will receive a certificate from the Trinity Impact Evaluation Research Centre - this course is not accredited.

Department: Trinity Impact Evaluation Unit

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The Economics of the Property Market

Designed to cater for professionals working in the Irish housing market, this introductory e-learning course explores how housing markets work and describes basic concepts behind the economics of property. This four-week online course will equip you with basic tools to apply economic analysis in the property market. Core concepts, such as shifts in demand and supply, opportunity cost, and general equilibrium effects, will be explored and applied to your practice.

Department: Economics

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