The Centre's Work
Welcome to the Centre for Excellence in Professional Placement Learning`s (CEPPL) web-site! The site aims to inform and engage all those with an interest in placement or practice learning - academics, educators in practice, students, service users, employers, the list goes on.
The CEPPL has as its mission the enhancement of placement or practice learning to the benefit of students, educators (Higher Education and practice based), and service users. While the Centre is located within the Health and Social Care arena, it is anticipated that much of our work may be appropriately disseminated to any discipline that incorporates a placement or practice component. The Centre`s work is two-fold:
- The development of best practice in various key aspects of placement learning provision - each aspect forms a separate area of development activity and is run by a core team comprising a mix of academics, practice educators, students and service users. These areas of activity are shown in the diagram below. More detail about what each area is doing can obtained by clicking on the links on the page or by scrolling over the box below.
- The development of new, innovative placement opportunities for students, with an explicitly transformative agenda. These placements seek to assist in the provision of health and social care to historically marginalised groups such as refugees, asylum seekers, people who are homeless, and carers of chronically ill individuals amongst others. New placements will be informed by the work of the development activities such that best practice is embedded and sustained in all new initiatives.
