Graduate School Courses Information
Graduate School Welcome
Welcome to the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) Graduate School. The School has 450 post graduate students of which 350 are PhD students with just over 100 first years joining us every year. SUPA provides education and training for post graduate students in Physics in Scotland organised across 6 themes – Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Photonics, Condensed Matter and Material Physics, Astronomy and Space Physics, Particle Physics and Physics and Life Sciences and intertheme courses.
Most of the courses are available by video-conference, some are online distance learning and a few are residential, providing networking opportunities for postgraduate students across Scotland to meet up at a central venue.
We correspond with students via My.SUPA so I encourage you to visit my.supa.ac.uk for further information and for any updates to the brochure.
Do not underestimate your attendance and participation in SUPA Graduate Courses - they provide a strong foundation of extra training in research backgrounds and transferable skills to achieve the goals of having SUPA graduate students equipped to be globally competitive in knowledge, self confidence, skills and above all ambition. Please make sure you have read and understood the attendance and assessment requirements .
I hope you find this selection of courses interesting and relevant to your research and I welcome any feedback you may have about existing courses or suggestions for new courses.
With very best wishes for your studies,
Avril Manners
Director, SUPA Graduate School
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained within the brochure is correct at the time of publication. The SUPA Graduate School Courses are subject to ongoing development which could necessitate cancellation or alteration to the advertised courses. SUPA Graduate School reserves the right to make changes at any time without prior notice.
All lectures will be available at selected SUPA sites by videoconferencing.
Unless otherwise stated, the lectures will last 1 hour.
Distance learning courses will be taught on-line with tutor support, where appropriate.
Once you have registered for a course you will be expected to participate in it fully.
You can find information on other grad skill courses at following URLs:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/researcherdevelopment/ Glasgow
http://www.hw.ac.uk/edu/research/ Heriot Watt
http://www.sie.ed.ac.uk/ Scottish Institute for Enterprise
http://www.strath.ac.uk/postgrad/ Strathclyde
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/rsd/ Aberdeen
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/genericskills/ Dundee
http://www.transkills.ed.ac.uk/ Edinburgh
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/GRADskills/ St Andrews
