SUS Professional Development Committee

Professional Development Committee SUS Professional Development: guaranteed high standards in all we do.

The SUS Professional Development Committee is charged with ensuring that the sector works together, sharing experiences, good practise and training workshops wherever possible and practical, and to ensure that the offer of SUS as a whole is as professional and fit for purpose as possible.

In its intiial two years, the group has been very active - generating a comprehensive and reliable communications network for SUS, on which the future success of the organisation will be based. Four large scale events for the sector have been delivered with considerable aplomb: two Christmas Seminars for all involved in the sector at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen in 2005 and at Stirling University in 2006; and two summer SUS Conferences, at the University of Edinburgh, which included a keynote speech from Patricia Ferguson MSP, Minister for Sport, Media and Culture in 2006 and at the University of Glasgow in 2007 which was joined by Francesca Osowska, Head of Sports Policy at the Scottish Executive and Stewart Harris, CEO of Sportscotland.

The group has worked extensively on the branding and marketing of SUS in order to achieve maximum visibility - including the delivery of this website, amongst other projects. In future, SUS PDC will oversee the training and education of student officers, volunteers and staff from across the nation in a coordinated way, provide networking opportunities and manage special interest groups to respond quickly to the needs of the sector.

For more on the work of SUS PDC, or to register an interest in aspects of its operation, please contact the SUS Office or Catriona McAllister on c.mcallister@hw.ac.uk.