Reflection on how transport and health interconnections could improve your practice

Overview

You will learn how your own work can be informed by themes of feeling safe on the streets at all ages, taking the perspective of a whole journey and a whole system and how to use behaviour science and knowledge of cars as a cultural norm to make a change in your area of work. You will also understand the role of community led transport design and build a network of like-minded individuals to reflect on the themes with and perhaps collaborate with in the future.

Programme

• Unit 1 & 2: Orientation and Collaboration Pre-recorded seminars, blogs to read online, discussion board and personal reflective journal.
• Unit 3 & 4: Feeling safe on the streets and the life course approach. Pre-recorded seminars, blogs to read online, discussion board and personal reflective journal.
• Unit 5 & 6: Whole journey and systems perspective. Pre-recorded seminars, blogs to read online, discussion board and personal reflective journal.
• Unit 7 & 8: Behavioural Science, behaviour change and transport norms. Pre-recorded seminars, blogs to read online, discussion board and personal reflective journal.
• Unit 9 & 10: Bottom-up and grassroots transport design. Pre-recorded seminars, blogs to read online, discussion board and personal reflective journal.
• Unit 11 & 12 Final assessment guidance and discussion board

Learning Outcomes

• 1. Identify where collaborative working will improve the impact of their own paid or voluntary role.
• 2. Have the communication skills to feel confident to reach out to others to invite them to take part in collaborative projects related to transport and health.
• 3. Have knowledge of the key issues associated with safe street sharing.
• Apply safe street sharing knowledge to their own role and understand how they can take action to implement safe street sharing knowledge in practical ways in their own lives and within their paid or voluntary roles.
• 5. Feel confident to contact members of the course network of like-minded individuals to continue to work with in the future.
• 6. Identify and understand their role in a whole journey and the wider transport and health system and how they are connected to other individuals and organisations within and outside their current role and how that understanding can help them leverage change.
• 7. Understand the importance of grass roots/ community/ bottom up transport design and its role in the wider discussion of transport and health provision in their region.
• 8.Understand the role of behaviour science in making changes in your paid or voluntary role.

Assessments

• Written Assessment 1500 words (100%) 

Reading Suggestions

Reading suggestions will be offered throughout the course. 

Entry Requirements

This course is for everyone. No previous experience is needed and there are no formal entry requirements. 

What Do I Need?

As this is an online course, you would need the following:

• Internet access.
• Access to a laptop or computer with a web camera and microphone; the use of headphones might also benefit.
• Use of the Chrome web browser where possible.