Postgraduate Diploma of
Professional Practice and Leadership

Looking for the next step in your professional career? Wondering if you can enhance your professional practice by accessing the latest research? BTI’s Professional Practice and Leadership postgraduate diploma offers all of this and more.  

Professionals enrolling for the postgraduate diploma join the Master’s degree programme and complete four 30-credit taught courses but not the thesis part of the programme. 

Dr Nikki Kiyimba, an experienced international researcher, author and educator, explains Postgraduate study at BTI.

Programme overview

The Master of Professional Practice and Postgraduate Diploma of Professional Practice programmes create a safe, but challenging space focused on ‘being and becoming’ confident Christ-following professionals whose practice is research-informed.
The learning experiences within the programme equip and enable participants to engage with research and reflective inquiry into their professional practice in order to improve understanding of that practice and increase its intentionality and strategic alignment with the biblical narrative and the idea of the Kingdom of God on earth. 

Dr Lindsay Fish is the Programme Leader for the Professional Practice and Leadership programme, and is an experienced researcher and educator.

Graduate profile and careers

Graduates from a postgraduate programme of study such as the Master of Professional Practice and Leadership will find it advances their career prospects, either within a current professional field, or into an allied field.  

The development of the programme during 2020 to add the leadership component now positions students well within the market place to take the next step on the career ladder. Graduates will have a rounded knowledge of leadership as applied to their particular professional context, bringing middle and senior management positions within accessible reach. 

“l have experienced MPPL not just as a master’s degree or new learning of information, but as a journey into deep transformation – spiritual, physical, emotional, and professional – and the journey continues.” 

– Philippa Becker, Teacher and MPPL student. 

“l initially went into the master’s programme unsure of whether I could complete it, but through the gentle nurturing and support which I received from the teachers, I was able to complete my degree.

– John Wilson, Teacher and MPPL Graduate

“I knew that God had called me to complete the MPPL at this time in my life and knowing that gave me the drive and passion to persevere.”


– John Wilson, Teacher and MPPL Graduate