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  Professional Development Training Area

  All SUPA students are required to complete 20 hours of Professional Development Training during the first two years of their PhD studies. SUPA Professional Development Training Courses are listed on the following pages. However, students may also participate in Professional Development Training run by their local departments and universities or run by Vitae (a UK-wide organisation sponsoring Skills Training) or their Research Councils. 

  
  

  Please note that enrolment for Professional Development Training is often run separately from enrolment procedures for Specialist Courses. 

  
  

  Information about enrolment procedures for each course will be posted on My.SUPA course areas and announced to all students via email. If you have any questions about enrolment for SUPA Professional Development Training Courses, please email admin@supa.ac.uk.

  • SUPA Professional Development Training courses 

    Semester 1

    C++/Object Oriented Programming (SUPACOO)
    Delivery: Video Conference and Labs in Glasgow

    Introductory Data Analysis (SUPAIDA)

    Maths Primer (SUPAPRI)
    

    FPGA Programming for Physicists (SUPAFPP)
    

    
    

    Semester 2

    Note: Enrolment for semester 2 courses opens in December

    Software Carpentry (SUPASWC)
    

    Delivery: Face to Face 

    ROOT (SUPAROO)

    Delivery: Labs in Glasgow

    Advanced Data Analysis (SUPAADA)
    

    Delivery: Face to Face 

    Introduction to Python (SUPAPYT)

    Delivery: Video Conference and Labs

    Research Ventures (SUPAENT)

    Delivery: Face to Face at a location to be determined
    
    

    Industry Skills (SUPAISC)

    From Zero to Draft in 8 Weeks (SUPAWRI)
    

    Delivery: Video Conference

    Mathematical Modelling (SUPAMMD)

    Delivery: Video Conference

    
    
    

    Hands on Wrting (SUPAHOW)

    Delivery: Face to Face

    This course is offered as a Face to Face option for second and third year students only; attendance on this course will be restricted to 32 places.  The course is also offered as online.   Registration details for both types of courses to follow.

    
    
    

    • SUPAHOW Hands On Writing  - limited number of places available
      - to apply for this course, please enrol into  SUPAHOW Hands on Writing Waiting list

    Please refer to links below for opportunities to attend courses through your own university and also through Vitae.
    
  • Professional Development Courses in each University

    
    

    Information about transferrable skills courses run by your own university and also Vitae can be found at the following websites:

    
    

    Vitae:

    https://www.vitae.ac.uk/

    University of Aberdeen:

    https://www.abdn.ac.uk/pgrs
    

    University of Dundee:

    https://www.dundee.ac.uk/opd/

    University of Edinburgh:

    https://www.ed.ac.uk/institute-academic-development

    University of Glasgow:

    https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ris/researcherdevelopment/
    

    Heriot Watt University:

    https://www.hw.ac.uk/services/research-futures.htm
    

    University of St Andrews:

    https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/capod/students/pgresearch/

    University of Strathclyde:

    https://www.strath.ac.uk/theresearcherdevelopmentprogramme/

    University of the West of Scotland:

    https://www.uws.ac.uk/about-uws/academic-life/uws-academy
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