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Online Courses

Short courses delivered online that cover a range of topics and subject areas.

Dietary management and the low FODMAP diet in IBS - Introduction course (2023-2024)

Available dates:

From: 01 September 2023 To: 31 July 2024

Duration:

Equivalent to 1 day

This course is designed as a taster course to provide an introduction to irritable bowel syndrome and its dietary management.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Places available

£150

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Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of Ex-combatants

Available dates:

From: 09 March 2023 To: 09 March 2025

Duration:

5 hours (self-paced)

This course offers an overview of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants in countries recovering from conflict. It outlines the concepts, definitions, and types of DDR approaches that are followed by various international, and national agencies to demobilise armed groups, and to return and reintegrate their rank and file into civilian society. The short course will also map the evolution of programmatic efforts over time, and how the various shifts have influenced DDR effectiveness. This short course incorporates a gendered focus on the reintegration of women and girl combatants; and on the age-specific needs of child soldiers. It also involves a deep engagement with the question of ex-combatant re-recruitment; and the role of ex-combatant agency in the decision to re-engage in violence. 

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Places available

£450

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Embracing Uncertainty: Policymaking in Turbulent Times

Available dates:

From: 05 March 2024 To: 29 March 2024

Duration:

4 weeks

To effectively address situations of uncertainty requires knowledge, attitudes and skills that are commensurate with the intrinsic complexity of the world. This module provides insights into complexity theory, explains the key principles and mechanisms of complex dynamic systems, and discusses how these can be harnessed in public policy. As embracing complexity is as much a perspective as a set of skills, the module follows the principle of learning

Executive Education course

Places available

£950

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Empathy and Emotion in Policymaking

Available dates:

From: 02 July 2024 To: 26 July 2024

Duration:

4 weeks

This module sets out ways in which policymakers can engage more with a diverse range of voices. It will enable you to foster a connection with citizens across the country through a greater appreciation of empathy, emotions, and the very human dynamics of policymaking.

Executive Education course

Places available

£950

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Ethics, Leadership and Governance

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

4 weeks

The module will explore the factors that can erode, mask or hide ethical decision-making can be minimised or at least ameliorated. It will then examine how the right kinds of behaviours at the individual, leadership and institutional levels can be promoted.

Executive Education course

Places available

£950

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Financial Management for Policymakers

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

4 weeks

This course seeks to contextualise the informational environment in which accounting, particularly management accounting, is conducted as to assist policy decision-makers to make well informed decisions as they plan, control and monitor their organisations.

Executive Education course

Course closed

£950

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Foresight and Horizon-Scanning in Policymaking

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

4 weeks

The module is aimed at officials with an interest in policy planning, strategy, forward-studies and horizon-scanning on socio-political and foreign policy issues where uncertainty tends to be higher.

Executive Education course

Places available

£950

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Frontiers in Transplantation Clinical Excellence through Innovation - 2023

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

2 days

Annual symposium to showcase recent developments in basic transplantation immunology alongside the latest cutting-edge clinical research with an emphasis on the ‘bench-to-bedside’ strategies being pursued within the King’s College London.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Places available

£250

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GMDP Academy - Kings College London Medical Affairs in Medicines Development Programme

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

1 year part time

Offered by King’s College London and the Global Medicines Development Professionals Academy (GMDP), this online CPD programme is designed for biomedical professionals working in medical affairs related functions and other areas of the medicines development arena within the biopharmaceutical industries and clinical research organisations.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Places available

£8050

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iData: The Markets and Politics of Personalisation

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

4 weeks

This module covers key aspects and characteristics involved in the relationship between material infrastructures, digital culture and personalisation. It will cover major debates surrounding social big data as it relates to the cultural, economic, and political dimensions of personalisation.

Executive Education course

Course closed

£950

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