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SUPA Graduate School

SUPA Graduate School. Avril Manners Director, SUPA Graduate School www.supa.ac.uk. Graduate School Strategy. To continue to seek and develop new possibilities for expanding the Graduate School, improving its quality and promoting it internationally.

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SUPA Graduate School

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  1. SUPA Graduate School Avril Manners Director, SUPA Graduate School www.supa.ac.uk

  2. Graduate School Strategy • To continue to seek and develop new possibilities for expanding the Graduate School, improving its quality and promoting it internationally. • To explore mutually beneficial relationships with the graduate schools of other pools. • To consider how best to lever the advanced undergraduate physics programmes in Scotland to benefit both postgraduate and undergraduate training. • To develop a proposal for a framework to operate a multi-institution MSc programme. • To develop more targeted transferable skills training for postgraduates, where possible leading to recognised credits/certification, eg for teaching via the Higher Education Academy. • To organise annual discussion fora for students at each SUPA institution to ensure the Graduate School understands student needs.

  3. Progress against Plan (last AC) Quality Lecturer Handbook with Academic Procedures Student Fora Future-proof the VC rooms Relationships Cross-pool Entrepreneurship Training Shared IT and MSc model MSc in Nuclear Technology Industrial demand Nuclear skills gap / Life extension of facilities CPD

  4. PhD Students 2011/12

  5. PhD Students by University

  6. PhD Students by Theme

  7. PhD 1st Years by University

  8. PhD 1st Years by Theme

  9. Induction and Courses

  10. Enrolments Semester I

  11. Enrolments Semester II

  12. SUPA Prize Studentships

  13. Graduate School Partnerships • Scottish CM-DTC – £6M 5 year project • 50 studentships • INSPIRE – KE/PaLS/GS – £1.6M 3 year project – 14 industrial studentships • IDC in Optics and Photonics – £5M 5 year project • 50 studentships • CDTs • Application of Next Generation Accelerators • Magnetic Resonance • DTP (BBSRC) • EastBio • Other Pools • University of Aberdeen RCUK Catalyst award in Public Engagement

  14. MSc / CPD in Nuclear Technology

  15. Proceeding with caution

  16. Post Doctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchanges • Put out a call via the SUPA mailing list • 12 applications (7PostDocs and 5PhDs) • Reviewed by the GSMC • 7 awards (6PostDocs and 1PhD) • £23940 of £25000 committed to date • 2 joint awards – 1 SINAPSE +1 ERP • Exchange projects – String Theory, MIT; Biomedicine Acoustic tweezing, Pennsylvania State University; Critical timing fault isolation, DCG Systems California; PET, Cyclotron Research Centre, Liege Belgium; Silica/tantala coatings, Stanford; submmgalaxies, Harvard-­‐Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; ZEPLIN instrumentation, Sanford Underground Laboratory

  17. Meetings, Summer Schools and Distinguished Visitors • SUSSP67: Quantum Information & Coherence, SUSSP68: Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications, SUSSP69: LHC Physics • Intro Biology SS, Solar Energy SS, ADA, Entrepreneurship and Careers • ATLAS UK Review Meeting, GW Bursts, Young PP Theorists Forum • Brian Wilson, Ontario Cancer Institute; Dieter Mueller, Ruhr-University Bochum; IlyaSheikin, CNRS; Joan Centrella, University of Maryland; William Briscoe, George Washington University

  18. IT Infrastructure

  19. Video Conferencing

  20. Expansion of the Graduate School • Extend the SUPA GS into technical training encompassing other STEM areas • Enhance the quality and efficiency of generic skills training and employability • GTA Training, Problem Solving, Innovation Academy, Public Engagement, Industrial Engagement • Expand the Prize Studentship Competition • Extend DTCs (Autumn 2012 / Spring 2013) • CM-DTC, IDC-Optics and Photonics • PaLS / Biophotonics, Quantum Optics

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