Professional Development Portfolio: Research and Academic Writing

This professional development portfolio showcases a student's work across several key areas. It begins with mini-projects focusing on local community engagement, exploring the Cheshire community, its activities, projects, and ways to support and improve it. The portfolio then delves into ethics, defining ethics, its importance, and societal benefits. Globalization is examined through mini-projects, exploring the concept of a global citizen and the positive and negative impacts of globalization on Britain. The portfolio also includes Zoom activities reviewing articles on ethics and research, analyzing qualitative and quantitative research methods, and identifying new concepts. Further, the portfolio includes activities on designing consent forms, creating interview questions, and an academic writing exercise summarizing changes in police numbers. Finally, the portfolio includes completed worksheets on CVs, action planning, reading logs, leadership styles, teamwork, and career development, along with relevant articles on student expectations, research, and ethics.

Mini projects/Zoom class
activities/Worksheets/Articles
EVIDENCE FOR PORTFOLIO

Mini project - local community
1:
• Where is your local community?
Cheshire community is mainly exist within Cheshire East, west and
Warrington which is mainly performing the wide range of charitable
activities. In order to improve the quality of local people in Warrington.
• What is going on in the community?
UK based local community such as Cheshire action helps people to
improve the spaces, places which are considered as important aspect
to them and access the essential service as per requirement.

Cont.
• Any local community projects?
Cheshire community in UK is mainly focused on the current service
project which needs to be provide all kind of facilities or service
regarding health or wellbeing. Sometimes, this type of community will
give advice on their neighborhood planning or housing related.
Furthermore, it may support for people.
• What can you do to support/enhance/improve the community
Basically, it has been supported to improve their quality of service in
health or well-being. Afterwards, it will be enhancing the Cheshire
community to explore their strong position into other countries.

Mini project - local community
2:
Local Community Project 2 –
• Are there troubles/issues in the local community?
Yes, Cheshire community has faced the certain kind of issues related
coordination with poor hygiene which may increase due to lack of
awareness.
• Any suggestions/recommendations?
It has been recommendations to implement the best awareness
practices while conducting the program or event for participating in
different activities.

Mini project –ETHICS
What is ethics?
• Ethics are considered as well-founded standards of wrong and right that can prescribe
what humans being needs to do, typically in term of obligations, legislation rights,
fairness, society and virtues. Another way, it is defined the ethics as system of moral
principles which is directly affecting on the people to make better decision and lead their
lives.
Why is learning ethics important?
• Learning ethics are important which help for exposing the contrast ethical opinions in
which providing the better opportunity to identify the reason behind any differences.
Ethics will help for representing rightness of action while protecting themselves.

Cont.
• What are the benefits of ethics in the society?
Ethics are important to the society as it plays important role in re-
shaping the individual behavior within society or community.
Sometimes, ethics will change the current environment or cultural
norms of local individual people

Globalisation 1- Mini project
• What do you understand by the term ‘Global citizen’? Who is a
Global Citizen?
A global citizen is defined as someone who are always aware about the
entire world. It can take any kind of role in local community and work
with other people. It helps for young people to build their own
understanding towards various event or program. Global Citizen are
local people of Cheshire East, west and Warrington.

Cont.
Can you research and think of three ways to become a global citizen?
According to research, it has been shown that there are three
different way to become as global citizen.
• A citizen is respectful of human rights and traditional cultural diversity
• Making green choices while reducing the wastage, energy saving that
will impact on the environment.
• Learning a new language

Globalisation 2- Mini project
Can you think of five ways globalisation has impacted Britain – positively
and negatively?
Globalization means that define the exchange and movement all over
the global world. It is basically affect of globalization which promote increases
interaction between different regions.
• The positive impact of globalization is to create extra money by investment
can be spend in infrastructure, education and health services. it brings more
foreign currency to local economies when buying local resources item and
services.
• The Negative effect on the increasing the difference between culture or
environment which always influencing the local communities in Britain.

Zoom Activity to Review article and answer questions on ethics
Talk about ANY new idea or ideas you gained from reading the
article on Ethics.
According to article, it has been gained more idea about the ethics,
which become consider as moral judgment that can be transferred to
decision makers. Generally, it turns out to be partly in process for
recognition of decision ethical implications. Through article, it has
been gained the existential resolution which requires to handle the
moral value of individual people during confliction.
• I have learnt about the concept of ethical implication in term of
decision making.

Zoom Activities on Article on Research to
review and answer questions – on Saturday
In your own understanding, what are the differences between
qualitative and quantitative research?
• The Quantitative research is mainly deals with statistics and numerical
value for generating accurate result or outcome. This research allows
to test a hypothesis by systematically collecting and analyzing large
amount of data or information. On the other hand, Qualitative
research is basically used key words, meanings, identifying existing
theories. This research method will help for exploring the innovative
idea and experience in depth study.

Cont.
What new words did you identify from the article that you never
knew?
Basically, I have been identified the new word in context of ethics such
as Virtuous, which means that can show or represent the high moral
standards and norms. In order to provide the equal right of individual
people on the basis of their preferences.

Zoom Activities on Article on Research to
review and answer questions - on Sunday
Can you identify two advantages and disadvantages of qualitative and
quantitative research, using your own words?
• The advantage of Quantitative method is to provide the brief idea
about the information or data which can be expressed in term of
numbers. In this way, it can easily test the result within numeric forms
which easily applied in the statistical manner.
• The disadvantage of quantitative method is that difficult to encounter
when it come from interpretation. Sometimes, it doesn’t allows to
handle complex data within proper manner.

Cont.
• The advantage of qualitative research that can easily standardization
of large collection of information or data. It help them to consider
naturalistic observation within structured format so that it can access
at any time. On the other hand, Disadvantage of this method cannot
allows to generate accurate solution but only provide brief idea about
the concepts.

Cont.
Are there any new ideas from the article you can share with your
group members?
• As per article, it has been shared the information about the ethical
which can represent about the individual people essentially act or
guideline. It allows them for people to use different norms and
standards. For instances, it has been established the honesty, loyalty
in the identification and resolution of conflict among people. Ethical
practices are considered as content ownership. Conflict or interest.

Zoom activity on designing a
consent form
In order to interview participants for your research on 'How to be an effective
student' you need to provide participants with a participant consent form.
• The participant consent form is based on the process which involves giving a
subject adequate information or data concerned about research. Student
Consent form will provide the agreement which obtained by student participants.
They have all kind of rights to ensure that subject has comprehended with
appropriate information. During research, scholar will provide the authority of
student to participants within interviews.

Cont.
Consider the examples given on the handouts and design your own
participant consent form.
• As per designed the consent form, it is very important to mention all
essential need or information regarding individual participants within
research. Basically, consent form can be categorized into different
parts such as information sheet, certification of consent.
• Within information sheet, it would be mention all research
information whereas gathering or collecting information. Before
decide participant, researcher can talk to anyone, feel comfortable
during research analysis.

Zoom activity on designing interview questions
• In your breakout rooms, create 5 interview questions (a list of
questions) on the topic of 'How to be an effective student'.
Q1. What are different approach that help for developing skills of effective
student?
Q2. How can improve or gain more information of research topic by
effective student?
Q3. What are benefits of effective student within research study?
Q4. What are impact of the knowledge of student within own
improvement?
Q5. How can an effective student increase the performance of study?

Zoom Activity on Academic writing activity on
POLICE NUMBERS
Use the phrase bank and the information shown on the graph to write a paragraph
summarising the changes in police numbers since 2003.
Law enforcement in UK is becoming organised separately in each of legal system.
England and Walves, Northern Ireland. There will be carried out by police officer which
provide the better safety policies services. In 2003, it enable them to change the officer
while changing their duties, responsibilities. That’s why, it has been changed the police
number for purpose of prevention or detection of any criminal offences. It has been
summarised that police workforce from 2003 changed on the basis of their function.
Therefore, it would easily calculate front line from 31 march 2016 according to the
police objective analysis. there will be change in the legal framework which means that
measure current or previous function of police officer. Afterwards, it become easier for
examining the most important preference of police officer towards public, providing
the best quality protection and also fulfil all essential need or requirement.

WORKSHEETS GIVEN
• CV worksheet
• Completed Action planning worksheet
• Reading log document worksheet
• What sort of a leader are you link (completed worksheet with results)
• Completed Teamwork worksheet
• 1/2 slides: Your particular contribution to the group work/presentation
• Career Development Plan worksheet
• Early Career Plan worksheet

WORKSHEETS GIVEN
• Competency based questions worksheet NEW
• Questions preparing using STARR worksheet NEW
• Skills worksheet NEW

ARTICLES TO INCLUDE IN YOUR
READING LOG
• Article on student expectation
• Articles on research 1
• Article on ethics
• Article on research 2
• Article on student presentation NEW