Professional Practice
Our Professional Practice qualifications provide you with a unique professional development opportunity. You can use your experience in your sector, workplace or community to research and add original knowledge to your field.
You’ll choose your area for research and generate substantial knowledge to add to your field. Your new knowledge will inform you, your field of practice and your profession. You’ll design and achieve new professional and personal learning goals — enabling you to create new knowledge for and about New Zealand’s workplaces through applied practice and research projects.
Professional Practice is for any experienced professional in any industry, community or field.
It's perfect for you if you are an advanced practitioner ready to make a significant contribution to your sector or community.
Professional Practice qualifications are delivered by Capable NZ.
Professional Practice qualifications
Workplace & Social-space
The course is designed to take your current work environment as the basis of this qualification. It is a self-directed study where you investigate a challenge or an area at your workplace that you want to solve or develop. You can then research and define this issue, develop an approach for resolving it, and implement processes to achieve your desired outcomes.Duration
1 Year Full-time
2 Years Part-time
Delivery
Distance, Work-based
Career potential
Manager, Specialist roles, Team Leader
Postgraduate, Workplace & Social-space
If you want to research a significant area or issue at your own workplace and recognise your work with an advanced qualification, this master's programme is for you.Duration
18 Months Full-time
Delivery
Work-based
Location
Distance
Career potential
Doctoral Research, Specialist roles
Postgraduate, Workplace & Social-space
Perfect for you if you are an expert in your field and want to create new knowledge in your area. This course is self-directed where you will reflect on your own experience and investigate your chosen issue.Duration
3 Years Full-time
Delivery
Work-based
Location
Distance
Career potential
Academia, Leader , Researcher
Examples of Doctor of Professional Practice research
Examples of Master of Professional Practice research
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