Roll out of popular course on public sector consultancy
Tech's course on research-based public sector consultancy is now compulsory for all employees working with public sector consultancy. Learn more about the faculty management team's decision, and what it means for you and your colleagues.
Since 2019, Tech has been offering a course on research-based public sector consultancy. At the request of Tech's public sector consultancy committee, the course has now been made compulsory for all employees working with public sector consultancy. This was decided by the faculty management team, and Ole Hertel, Tech's vice-dean for public sector consultancy and business collaboration, is pleased with that decision:
"At Tech, we're constantly working to ensure the high quality of our public sector consultancy. We’ve therefore been ISO9001 certified, and that’s why we’re now rolling out our popular course on public sector consultancy to all employees involved in public sector consultancy. Our experience from previous courses is that even experienced employees have benefitted greatly from participating in the course."
Greater insight into a complex system
The purpose of the course on research-based public sector consultancy is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills and competences needed to provide independent, research-based public-sector consultancy of high quality and consistency within their field of research. For Lene Juul Pedersen, a professor at the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and chair of the department's public sector consultancy committee, the course has been rewarding, even though she already had extensive experience with public sector consultancy:
"The course gave me much greater insight into how tasks are ordered and used, and into the dilemmas that may arise when carrying them out," she says and continues:
"I also gained a greater understanding of the entire quality management system and better insight into who we’re writing for. I would strongly recommend others to take the course, because strengthening your insight into the system and the complex world we interact with in public sector consultancy is very satisfying."
This is what the change will mean for those of you who work with public sector consultancy
In future, the course on research-based public sector consultancy will be compulsory for all employees (e.g. researchers, senior researchers, senior advisers, professors, academic staff and research assistants) who in one way or another work with research-based public sector consultancy.
New employees or employees who have not previously worked with public sector consultancy must take the course within two years of employment/beginning to provide public sector consultancy. Experienced employees must have taken the course before 1 July 2027.
If you are the coordinator of a consultancy task, you must have completed the course.
The faculty management team has also decided to offer two places on each course for employees at the two ministries who work with public sector consultancy. This will increase the ministries’ understanding of how we work with consultancy at Tech.
About the course
So far, the course on research-based public-sector consultancy has been held twice a year: in Danish in the spring semester and in English in the autumn semester. The next course in January is already fully booked, but another course in Danish will be held on 14 March and 9-10 April 2024.
The course consists of a four-hour online kick off and a two-day residential course. The course ends with a compulsory, written exam assignment, which must be passed. The course gives 3 ECTS for those who need it.
Want to find out more?
If you have any questions about the new rules or the course, you are welcome to contact Thomas Plesner at tpl@au.dk or +45 22972351