UCD wins at the Association for Business Psychology Workforce Experience Awards
- Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2024
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By Beth Kocher Gormley, Communications and PR Manager, UCD College of Business
UCD Careers Network (UCD Smurfit School) won the award in the Excellence in Learning & Development category at the Association for Business Psychology Workforce Experience Awards in London.
The award-winning entry was Making the LEAP: Using business psychology to develop the employability of a Financial Times Top 100 Global MBA class in an evidenced-based, experiential, for-credit module.
“This award represents the power of a partnership approach, when the Academic Programme and Careers Network work together to support the employability development of UCD students, ” said Louise Campbell, Head of Smurfit School Careers Network.
“The opportunity now is to broaden this approach as part of the transformational learning and development pillar of the UCD Smurfit School strategy,” said Campbell.
“Embedding employability in the curriculum and developing career education approaches that enhance and develop employability attributes in our students and graduates is at the heart of the UCD Career Development and Employability Strategy,” said Dr. David Foster, UCD Director of Careers, Employability and Skills. “This award highlights the potential of this success.”
The purpose of the Association for Business Psychology Awards are to celebrate excellence in business psychology and offer a unique and distinctive platform for the celebration of excellence in business psychology.
Whilst many awards programmes exist in the field of Human Resources generally, and in various psychological disciplines, the ABP Awards focus on demonstrating how applying an understanding of the science of human behaviour can impact workforce experience and deliver commercial and practical value to organisations.
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