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Get the skills you need

Our high quality short courses, summer schools and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities are designed to develop the key skills you'll need in your professional or academic career.

Arts and Humanities

Led by experts across the field of Arts and Humanities, our practical professional development courses offer specialist training across a range of areas. Develop your skills, tools and expertise to take your career to the next level.

Essex Human Rights Online Summer School
The Essex Human Rights Centre is delighted to present its pioneering and popular summer school on human rights taught by an interdisciplinary faculty of renowned academics and practitioners.
Human Rights Leadership lab
Taught online over 6 x 4 hour sessions, the Human Rights Leadership Lab is a supportive and reflective learning space to develop your leadership presence, skills and impact
International Law in Armed Conflict
Suitable for human rights practitioners, professionals from government and international bodies, as well as post-graduate students and academics seeking knowledge in this field, this four-day in-person course is designed to provide the foundations for understanding the role of international law in situations of armed conflict.
Human Rights and Journalism
Taught online, 18 hours over 2 weeks (2 sessions per week) and taught by Steve Crawshaw, an experienced former foreign correspondent with many years’ experience also as a senior human rights advocate, the course seeks to provide participants with a realistic introduction to ways of addressing the ethical and practical challenges of working in an increasingly complex world.
Addressing the Social Context of Mental Distress
This short course is a three-day Summer School, taught by leading experts and practitioners working on the social context of mental distress, including Professor Richard Wilkinson (co-author of The Spirit Level and The Inner Level). It builds on the first CICSI Summer School held in 2023, on De-Medicalising Mental Distress.
Human Rights and Local Government
Taught online, 9 hours over 2 weeks (3 sessions per week), the Human Rights and Local Government is a practical development course designed for local government officials and councillors, local community groups, and anyone interested in local policy-development and human rights. You will acquire concrete tools and skills to practice human rights at the local level.
Leading from the Screen: The Visible and Invisible in Remote Working
The University of Essex presents a professional development training programme held over four days. Through a combination of experiential learning, practice and an exploration of key theoretical concepts, this interactive training programme will equip you to recognise, understand and manage the visible and invisible dynamics of remote working.

Science and Health

Our portfolio of courses offers flexible study options. Many of our courses are credit-bearing and have been developed in partnership with local providers, ensuring you are equipped with the necessary skills required in industry.

Health and Social Care CPD
The School of Health and Social Care delivers CPD programmes for qualified professionals in health and social care. Our staff are both academically and clinically qualified and many are practising clinicians. We provide you with training that is not just clinically relevant but based on current research and our years of experience.
Sport, rehabilitation and exercise science CPD
Our School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences runs CPD courses in musculoskeletal assessment, practice and sonography, which can be taken as a PG certificate, PG diploma, or an MSc.
Programming and data science
The Faculty of Science and Health have worked in collaboration with partners including Suffolk County Council and East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) to develop short courses that support digital skills that focus on digital transformation through the use of data.

Social Sciences

Building on our academic and practical expertise, we offer a range of CPD opportunities to enable you to continue your personal and professional development.

Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
The Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis provides world-leading social science methods training to postgraduate research students by offering instruction from an internationally renowned faculty.
Psychosocial and Analytic Students CPD modules
You can take a selection of non-credit bearing modules at our Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies on a CPD basis and we also offer a number of other courses and sessions.

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International Summer School
With Essex’s International Summer School you’ll have the chance to study fascinating undergraduate modules with our expert academics, explore England and make new friends from all over the world.

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