Graduate Certificate
This programme provides a professional development opportunity for you to update and extend existing skills and knowledge in your current workplace. You'll identify existing issues related to your sector, and learn research methods that can be applied in real-world settings through reflective practice and academic study.
You'll be able to remain professionally current by critically engaging with research practice through Te Tiriti o Waitangi and indigenous approaches. These foci will ensure that you can confidently pursue culturally responsive applied research.
Upon completion, you'll be able to add value to your organisation by employing advanced applied research skills, and the qualification will also enable you to demonstrate this ability to employers and other industry stakeholders.
Once you've successfully completed this programme you'll receive the qualification of a Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Practice and If you'd like to continue studying, you can progress to the Master of Applied Practice (Social Practice). Progressing students can transfer their credits, so the Masters will only be an additional 1 year (full-time) or 2 years (part-time).
The key difference between this programme and the Masters is that this programme teaches you how to conduct applied research in your industry, whereas the Masters gives you the opportunity to actually conduct this research as part of your studies.
What you will need to study this programme.
Domestic students Academic requirementsYou must have completed at least one of the following:
Don't meet these Academic requirements?
For more information, download the programme regulations (PDF 449 KB)
- Community development worker - Counsellor - Not-for-profit practitioner - Social practitioner working for a government agency - Social practitioner working for a non-government agency (NGO) - Social worker (both NGO and statutory)