First graduates from the Professional Diploma in Regulatory Governance
11th May 2012
The first graduates from the interdisciplinary Professional Diploma in Regulatory Governance were awarded their diploma certificates by Paul Gallagher SC, former Attorney General and Adjunct Professor of Law at UCD, at a ceremony held in Newman House recently. The Programme was offered under a contact with the Department of the Taoiseach and coordinated by the School of Law and the UCD Centre for Regulation & Governance, with teachers drawn from academic staff in the Schools of Law, Politics and International Relations, Economics, the Institute of Public Administration and academic and practitioner experts from overseas. The graduating students work in various government departments and agencies, where regulatory governance is a significant component of their work.
The Diploma in Regulatory Governance linked cutting-edge theory and research on regulatory governance with practical application and approaches to problem-solving for policy practitioners of regulation. The learning methods deployed the knowledge both of the course teachers and of participants themselves of regulatory regimes in Ireland and beyond. The programme is distinctive for its emphasis on seeking to understand policy problems presented within regulatory fields and the range of approaches available, together with a contextual evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses. Although best practice and toolkit approaches to education in regulatory governance have their place, the ambition of this programme is to equip participants with analytical skills which focus on puzzling over both problems and potential solutions and which are transferable across the full range of fields to which regulatory governance practices do, or might in principle, apply.