Avril Manners Director SUPA Graduate School wwwsupaacuk Graduate School Strategy To continue to seek and develop new possibilities for expanding the Graduate School improving its quality and promoting it internationally ID: 413897
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SUPA Graduate School
Avril Manners
Director, SUPA Graduate School
www.supa.ac.ukSlide2
Graduate School StrategyTo 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.Slide3
Progress against Plan (last AC)QualityLecturer Handbook with Academic ProceduresStudent Fora
Future-proof the VC roomsRelationshipsCross-pool Entrepreneurship TrainingShared IT and MSc modelMSc in Nuclear TechnologyIndustrial demandNuclear skills gap / Life extension of facilitiesCPDSlide4
PhD Students 2011/12Slide5
PhD Students by UniversitySlide6
PhD Students by ThemeSlide7
PhD 1st Years by UniversitySlide8
PhD 1st Years by ThemeSlide9
Induction and CoursesSlide10
Enrolments Semester ISlide11
Enrolments Semester IISlide12
SUPA Prize Studentships
Year2009201020112012Number of completed applications151208320329Conversion rate44%74%76%88%Slide13
Graduate School PartnershipsScottish CM-DTC – £6M 5 year project
50 studentshipsINSPIRE – KE/PaLS/GS – £1.6M 3 year project – 14 industrial studentshipsIDC in Optics and Photonics – £5M 5 year project 50 studentshipsCDTs Application of Next Generation AcceleratorsMagnetic ResonanceDTP (BBSRC)EastBioOther PoolsUniversity of Aberdeen RCUK Catalyst award in Public EngagementSlide14
MSc / CPD in Nuclear TechnologySlide15
Proceeding with cautionSlide16
Post Doctoral and Early Career Researcher ExchangesPut out a call via the SUPA mailing list12 applications (7PostDocs and 5PhDs)Reviewed by the GSMC
7 awards (6PostDocs and 1PhD)£23940 of £25000 committed to date2 joint awards – 1 SINAPSE +1 ERPExchange 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; submm galaxies, Harvard-‐Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; ZEPLIN instrumentation, Sanford Underground LaboratorySlide17
Meetings, Summer Schools and Distinguished VisitorsSUSSP67: Quantum Information & Coherence, SUSSP68:
Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications, SUSSP69: LHC PhysicsIntro Biology SS, Solar Energy SS, ADA, Entrepreneurship and CareersATLAS UK Review Meeting, GW Bursts, Young PP Theorists ForumBrian Wilson, Ontario Cancer Institute; Dieter Mueller, Ruhr-University Bochum; Ilya Sheikin, CNRS; Joan Centrella, University of Maryland; William Briscoe, George Washington UniversitySlide18
IT InfrastructureSlide19
Video ConferencingSlide20
Expansion of the Graduate SchoolExtend the SUPA GS into technical training encompassing other STEM areas Enhance the
quality and efficiency of generic skills training and employabilityGTA Training, Problem Solving, Innovation Academy, Public Engagement, Industrial EngagementExpand the Prize Studentship CompetitionExtend DTCs (Autumn 2012 / Spring 2013)CM-DTC, IDC-Optics and PhotonicsPaLS / Biophotonics, Quantum Optics