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  General

  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, CDTs, 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

    Please refer to links below for opportunities to attend courses through your own university and also through Vitae.

    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)

    Power Hour of Writing (SUPAPHW)
    

    
    

    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

    Industry Skills (SUPAISC)
    

    From Zero to Draft in 8 Weeks (SUPAWRI)
    Delivery: Video Conference

    Mathematical Modelling (SUPAMMD)
    Delivery: Video Conference

  • 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

    University of Aberdeen

    University of Dundee

    University of Edinburgh

    University of Glasgow

    Heriot-Watt University

    University of St Andrews

    University of Strathclyde

    University of the West of Scotland
    
    Each university provides a variety of support specific to academic writing skills. You can find a summary of these, plus other helpful online resources and tools, on our Academic Writing Support page.