Academic Leadership Programme (ALP)
The Academic Leadership Program (ALP) is delivered by the UTEL in collaboration with the Advance Higher Education in UK. It is offered once every academic year. The ALP is designed to support staff new to leadership roles such as head of department, head of academic programs, college Deans, etc. It is designed to enable effective leadership in these roles which is vital for success for higher education providers.
The program, developed and delivered by experienced academic leaders, moves away from management training practices toward a greater emphasis on leadership values in alignment with the Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning in higher education (PSF).
The focus for ALP is on helping you reflect on the nature of academic leadership in your particular contexts and situations, and on the conditions you need to create to enable you to become an effective academic leader.
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The program will introduce you to the most important dimensions of academic leadership and give you time and space to think about ‘shifting gear’ from successfully thinking about your leadership role, to ensuring that your leadership outputs and outcomes are firmly embedded in a future practice that will help deliver your University’s strategic objectives.Our approach is to introduce ideas and techniques in the plenary sessions and in workshops and then encourage you to try these out in your own department. The ALP Team aims to be responsive and we are prepared to adapt the process if the feedback we receive suggests that it is appropriate to do so.We are all responsible for co-creating the ALP experience; you constitute a fantastic source of knowledge about higher education. There are many opportunities for interacting with colleagues from other faculties.We hope that you will find the ALP experience professionally rewarding and enjoyable and that you will build new and lasting connections.
After the completion of the workshop, the participant will be able to:
- Share experiences of being an academic ‘head’ and the particular challenges that they face in these roles
- Understand the crucial knowledge, skills and experiences that characterise effective and successful ‘headship’
- Identify a current ‘challenge’ and work with colleagues to find a solution
- Acquire skills and expertise not usually found in academic development programmes such as establishing credibility and trust and learning how to market one’s department.
The Academic Leadership Programme is split into three modules over four days:
- Module 1 – Devolving Leadership The overall aim of this module is to enable participants to understand their individual leadership context and challenges and then to develop an action plan to develop and implement leadership practice. Participants will explore the nature of academic leadership; different leadership models and how they might be applied to different academic situations and the importance of devolved and distributed leadership. As an integral part of this module participants will develop their influencing skills and how to work effectively with stakeholders – skills that will be developed further in subsequent modules.
- Module 2 – Rationale for change The aim of this module is to enable the academic leader to identify what a successful change ‘looks like’, identifying who they need to influence and who can help them. The module will include a preliminary action plan for the ‘next steps’ in creating, articulating and selling a vision of the future.
- Module 3 – Turning Problems into Opportunities and Making Things Happen The aim of is to enable participants to explore their emerging leadership roles and to develop their practice through analysing and articulating a learning and teaching problem and identifying potential solutions in order to make things happen differently.
| Title | Full Name * | University * | |
| 1 | Mr | Ahmed Mohammed Abuqalbein | Royal Academy Of Police |
| 2 | Dr. | Ali Salman bin Thani | University of Bahrain |
| 3 | Dr. | Amer El Saeedi | Royal University for Women |
| 4 | Dr. | Caroline Holden-Rachiotis | RCSI Bahrain |
| 5 | Dr. | Ebrahim Rajab | RCSI Bahrain |
| 6 | Dr. | Faiza Zitouni | Applied Science University |
| 7 | Prof | Hilal Mohammed Yousif Al Bayatti | Applied Science University |
| 8 | Mr | Khalil Ebrahim Mohammed Alhermesi Alhajeri | Royal Academy Of Police |
| 9 | Dr. | Layla Jassim Hazim | University of Bahrain |
| 10 | Dr. | Matthias Bode | Royal University for Women |
| 11 | Mr. | Mohamed Shawqi Almannai | University of Bahrain |
| 12 | Ms. | Naseem Saeed Abdullah | University of Bahrain |
| 13 | Dr. | Noor Nabeel Aldoy | University of Bahrain |
| 14 | Dr | Osama Yaseen Mohmood | Gulf University |
| 15 | Dr. | ReyadhMohamed Seyadi | University of Bahrain |
| 16 | Dr. | Shweta Kinra Kalra | Royal University for Women |
CONTACT US
Director’s office
Dr. Diana Al Jahromi
E-mail: daljahrami@uob.edu.bh
utel@uob.edu.bh
