About
Denise is an employability tutor within the School of Health and Social Care, Swansea University
Ms Denise Thyer
Employability Tutor
Public Health
Office - 221
Second Floor
Vivian Building
Singleton Campus
Second Floor
Vivian Building
Singleton Campus
Publications
Research Highlights
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Thyer, D. & Croxall, J. (2017). Employability comes full-circle: the student becomes the teacher. In SALT Conference, Swansea University, 11th July 2017SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54044
All Research
Conference Contributions
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Thyer, D. & Croxall, J. (2017). Employability comes full-circle: the student becomes the teacher. In SALT Conference, Swansea University, 11th July 2017SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54044
Taught Modules
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PPS120 Academic and Professional Development
This module will introduce students to the skills and mindset needed for their own academic and professional development. Students are supported to work and learn together at the level required in higher education. They are encouraged to develop a questioning approach, understand the quality of sources, how to structure an argument, to write academically and to avoid plagiarism. This module supports students to complete five units of the Swansea University¿s Career Development Course (CDC). Students are introduced to the skills and mindset needed to effectively apply for jobs/Year in Industry placement/placement/volunteer work and/or moving forward in a career path including how to recognise and make the most of experience, learning, and knowledge and how to sell themselves effectively.
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PPS200 Professional Development and Critical Thinking
This module will build upon the employability skills students acquired from the first year Professional Development module. It is designed to encourage students to enhance their employability through a supported program of work experience and achievement of the Advanced Career Development Course (previously known as the SEA award). Students will develop key transferable employability skills and achieve specific employability competencies through a mixture of methods including a Presentation, Mock Interview and a Personalised Placement Learning Record. Developing critical thinking and reflexivity in HEI and employment settings will be a cornerstone of this module. Students are placed within local public, private and third sector companies and organisations. The Placements and Employability team will source and allocate student placements based on answers they provide in a placement preference questionnaire. Placements are designed to develop skills, but also allow students to get a glimpse of environments they may want to explore after graduation. Eligibility/ selection criteria for the module: 1. Completed 5 units of the Career Development Course (previously known as the Bronze SEA award) 2. Completion of placement preference questionnaire 3. Attendance record throughout their degree (If mitigating circumstances have affected attendance, these will be considered during selection). 4. This module can take a maximum of 30 students.
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PPS222 Employability Skills and Year in Industry Preparation
Employability Skills and Year in Industry Preparation is a non-credit bearing module that is designed to prepare students for Year in Industry. This module will focus on the underpinning and fundamental requisites required to gain, enter and progress effectively through an industrial placement. The module will offer personal and practical support in the application of Year in Industry placement. TB1 ¿ This will comprise of 5 taught sessions that will allow students to recognise and develop employability skills; understand how to reflect and maximise the placement experience. TB2 ¿ Fortnightly one-to-one meetings with careers consultant for support and guidance in securing a placement, checking on the application progress and completing required Year in Industry paperwork and DBS checks (if required).
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PPS317 Professional Development and Critical Thinking
This module starts with a five-day intensive employability boot camp covering the key skills that are essential in the workplace (Self-management, business and customer awareness, team-working, communication, problem solving & reflective practice). Following this, a work-placement (70+ hours) will be undertaken which can be spread-out over a number of weeks (e.g., one day per week) or over a shorter time period (alternative working patterns can be made in agreement with the module leader). Students will be responsible for self-sourcing a placement for this module. Support, including sign-posting, will be available to help facilitate sourcing. This module is a temporary module which will run for one year only. It is only being offered to students who were unable to enrol on PPS200 due to limited numbers as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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PPSX00 Year in Industry
This Year in Industry work placement learning programme is specifically designed for students to enhance employability. The placements are embedded within the undergraduate programmes at the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science and are created to equip students with new skills and experience through industry work experience. The placement can be carried out in the UK or anywhere in the world. All placements must be a minimum of 40 weeks and students are expected to work a full working week with a minimum of 30 hours. Placements can begin from June, upon completion of exams. Please note that if you have any supplementary exams, it is your responsibility to inform your employer and book annual leave in order to attend any resits, which will take place in August. The deadline for students to inform us that they have secured a placement is the 31st August. Please note: For students transferring onto the BSc Health and Social Care with Applied Practice - We recommend that you proactively contact your student finance loan company to keep them up to date on whether you are going to be completing a 3-year degree or the 4-year degree with a year in industry. If you have not confirmed a year in industry by the 31st of August deadline you will be removed from the BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care with Applied Practice and will transfer to the BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care programme. Students MUST have their placement confirmed and approved by the Employability team to be able to proceed. The title of the internship `Health and Social Care with Applied Practice¿ reflects the nature of the placement year, with students supported to secure placements in the Health and Social Care environment with associated benefits for future career paths and employment. Such placements will give students greater insight into the opportunities available to them and first-hand experience.
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SHH209 Professional Development and Critical Thinking
This module will build upon the employability skills students acquired from the first year Professional Development module. It is designed to encourage students to enhance their employability through a supported program of work experience and achievement of the Advanced Career Development Course (previously known as the SEA award). Students will develop key transferable employability skills and achieve specific employability competencies through a mixture of methods including a Presentation, Mock Interview and a Personalised Placement Learning Record. Developing critical thinking and reflexivity in HEI and employment settings will be a cornerstone of this module. Students will be responsible for self-sourcing a placement for this module. Support, including signposting, will be available to help facilitate sourcing. Students will be provided with a placement information pack to provide possible placement providers. In addition, they will be given guidance on appropriate placements and how to approach organisations. Eligibility/ selection criteria for the module: 1. Completed 5 units of the Career Development Course (previously known as the Bronze SEA award) 2. Supporting statement describing your placement, why you would like to take part in this module and what you hope to gain from it (300 ¿ 500 words). 3. A Curriculum Vitae. 4. Attendance record throughout their degree (If mitigating circumstances have affected attendance, these will be considered during selection). 5. This module can take a maximum of 20 students.
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SHS101 Social Enterprise in Health and Social Care
This module will enable students to identify the primary and secondary needs of society, using theoretical tools to identify how social problems are constructed and responded to. Further, it will introduce the concept of Social Enterprise as a community response to gaps in provisions. The module will enable students to explore the political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental factors of responses to social problems to allow them to evaluate the effectiveness of responses and gaps in provisions.
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SHS201 Being a Social Entrepreneur
This module will allow students to translate knowledge of social enterprise into action with the development of enterprising skills such as identifying user needs and addressing these needs through collaborative co-design and action, being resourceful and leadership. This is an interactive and practical module aiming to inspire students to social enterprise and entrepreneurship by giving them an experiential introduction to community centered design processes. Students will build upon the knowledge gained in the first year module SHS101 Social Enterprise - An Introduction, progressing through a journey of community centered design, looking at the concept, theory, and design stages of social enterprise, translating this knowledge into a group-based project where they will identify a gap in provisions in their local community, design a social enterprise project as a response to the gap in provisions and pitch their ideas to investors for funding.