Handbook

Through the ethics components of this course, you will interrogate the challenges of maintaining professional standards through conduct and accountability, consistency and discretion, and transparency and rigour. Building on this, in the expertise components you will reflect on how best to navigate public and private interests, and current affairs and political debates that affect your work. You will better articulate your professional contributions, understand the contributions of the professions you work closely with, and recognise the importance of confidently using data, evidence, and analytical acumen to inform your work.

Central to the practice year experience, this course will guide you through your first role in the planning sector, provoke you to draw upon your own experiences to think more critically about the planning sector’s complexity and competing objectives, and inform your development as a planning professional. You will bring real world examples of the opportunities and challenges of your professional placement into the classroom, and learn from the diversity of other students’ experiences, to integrate insights across theory and practice.