Training Courses

HCR provides training courses for a number of different contexts:

Radio Programming for Health Promotion and Social Development

Radio programming for health promotion supports social change and health promotion goals through advocacy, and informing and educating listeners. Training courses cover the theory and practice of health promotion and social development, core radio programming skills, how to position the listener as a learner, and planning health-promoting radio campaigns.

Training has been delivered in the Torres Strait (Thursday Island), Mongolia, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Australia, Cambodia, Cyprus and the Philippines in courses with a variety of international participants from various health, media and social development sectors.

The course is available to practitioners through distance learning or in a short residential course. Participants who successfully complete the continuing education course are awarded a Certificate in Radio Programming for Health Promotion (CertRPHP).

Radio for Conflict Transformation

Training workshops equip programmers and producers to create the space for listeners to recognise their similarities, rather than concentrating on their obvious differences. Training explores innovative program techniques to help all levels of an affected population to address, integrate and embrace a painful past, and to work towards a shared future. After taking this course, radio producers become agents for change in their community, learning how to network with other groups and to use radio programming for peace-building.

Training has been delivered in Indonesia, and in the Philippines in collaboration with Notre Dame University, Cotabato City, and Lewin-Fordham, Australia (funded by AusAID under the Philippines-Australia Short Term Training project) and for Women's Enterprise Development (Mindanao).

Training Design and Delivery

On completion of this training course, participants will be able to:

discuss the development of non-formal education;
describe the Transitional Learning Model as a filter for training design and delivery;
complete a Learning Needs Assessment including the analysis of tasks and subtasks, the learners and their working context;
design a transitional learning plan which includes assessment of learning;
apply and utilise appropriate learning resources;
develop delivery skills for conducting training;
design and analyse evaluation of the course by participants and facilitators;
incorporate cross-cultural instructional methods into a training design;
manage an ongoing training program with effective means of follow-through.

The course textbook is The Transitional Learning Model.

Course participants have come from a variety of international health, media and social development sectors

The course is available to students enrolled in a continuing education mode for practitioners through distance learning or in a short residential course