Part Time Doctoral Training Courses in Clinical Psychology: A Q&A session Life In the Labyrinth

In this episode, Candice speaks to Rob Parker (member of the course team on the Clinical Psychology DClinPsy training course at Lancaster University) and Dr Pieter Nel (Programme Director, The University of Hertfordshire) about Lancaster's journey and experiences of developing a new part-time training pathway. Lancaster now offer 6 funded part-time training places. In this episode you will also hear Pieter share his own experiences of clinical training on a part-time course in South Africa, and you will hear Pieter ask Rob some of the questions that we have had over the last few years.. what are the practicalities on the ground of designing a new part-time pathway and how does it impact trainee and cohort identity? 
In summary, there is a shared sense that offering a formalised part-time training route may better support trainees' needs and support trainee and cohort identity, rather than each trainee who follows a bespoke training journey due to personal circumstances (e.g. ill health, maternity amongst other reasons) and each course team, navigating a number of separate, unique pathways. Importantly, there is a general agreement that part-time training opportunities may increase diversity in the profession and enable applications from applications who would not be in a position to train full-time and therefore may not even apply to full-time courses and would not have the opportunity to join the profession of Clinical Psychology.