External opportunities

If you are looking for Graduate School activities, see our Upcoming Events.

SUPER retains centrally-held funds to cover costs for PGRs to take advantage of external opportunities which would benefit their studies or future career. Read more in our Finance Information document.

Recurring

  • MASTS ‘Delve Deeper’ Webinar Series
    • Every other Wednesday, 1.00 pm.
    • With themes spanning Environmental Impact, Resource Exploration, Technological Advancements, and Coastal Sustainability, each episode promises an exciting dive into the ever-evolving world of marine science.
  • Ocean Partnerships Speed Networking, a SMMR-Net Event Series
    • Various dates, 1.00 pm.
    • Ocean Partnerships recognises the need for practitioners from different disciplines to interact, exchange experiences and ideas. After a 10 minute introduction, the speed networking begins and you will be paired up for 7 minutes at a time over the course of the hour.
  • Practice your presentation skills, an ICES Webinar Series
    • Various dates and times.
    • This series will provide an informal and supportive forum for ECRs to give oral presentations. Presenters can get constructive feedback while using the opportunity to get rid of their ‘nervous jitters’ before their actual presentation. A secondary outcome is the facilitation of interdisciplinary collaboration.

April 2024

  • Scotland’s Nature Student Conference
    • Tuesday 9 to Wednesday 10 April.
    • Inverness.
    • Free!
    • This is the fifth instalment of the conference previously known as the Scottish Ecology, Environment and Conservation Conference (SEECC), geared towards advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It offers fantastic opportunities to present the very best of research work and to meet with government staff, agencies, NGOs and researchers keen to make the best use of excellent research.
    • Abstract submission deadline is Friday 15 March.
  • Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables Conference
    • Monday 15 to Friday 19 April.
    • Orkney.
    • £370.
    • The heart of the conference is the sharing of new ideas and insights into the interactions between marine renewable energy and the environment (in the broadest sense of the word), a field which continues to grow from strength to strength. With growth comes inevitable conflict, and the theme of this conference is balance; balance between ecosystem effects and reducing carbon-emissions, balance between societal impacts and economic growth, balance between national goals and resilient coastal communities.
  • Stakeholder Engagement for Wildlife Conservation, a WildTeam Online Training Course
    • Tuesday 16 April to Tuesday 21 May.
    • £220, bursaries available.
    • Stakeholder engagement is an essential skill required to achieve conservation impact, while protecting the rights of vulnerable groups. Once you are certified, you will feel confident in, and be able to demonstrate your ability to carry out stakeholder engagement effectively and ethically in any conservation situation.
  • Big Seaweed Search, a STEM Ambassador Webinar
    • Wednesday 17 April, 5.00 pm-6.00 pm.
    • Free!
    • Learn how to correctly identify and survey 14 seaweed species along the shoreline and take part in the citizen science project in partnership with the Natural History Museum.
  • Marine Biological Association Postgraduate Conference
    • Tuesday 23 to Thursday 25 April.
    • Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
    • £70.
    • The MBA PG Conference is run for and by ECRs, and not only provides a supportive environment to share your work but also acts as a catalysis for networking and building collaborations.
  • Beginners QGIS for Ecologists and Conservation Practitioners, a CIEEM Training Course
    • Tuesday 23 to Friday 26 April, 9.00 am-12.00 pm daily.
    • £404.
    • This course introduces you to the open source (free) QGIS software which is now an industry standard in the ecological, conservation and consultancy sectors. It is suitable for complete beginners to GIS. The course is designed to enable you to become a competent GIS operator with a practical focus on producing survey maps and analysing data derived from your surveys.

May 2024

  • Imaging Marine Invertebrates, an EMBRC Training Course
    • Monday 6 May to Friday 30 August.
    • Online with one week on site at Marine Station at Villefranche, France.
    • Free!
    • The aim of the course is to provide key background knowledge on how to work with live marine invertebrates and hands-on experience on how to perform imaging studies using live marine invertebrates.  
  • Managing Your Scientific Code using Git & GitHub, an MBA Online Training Course
    • Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 May, 4 hours daily.
    • £149.
    • This course will introduce you to the most popular open source software for version control, Git, and the most popular platform for sharing and collaborating on projects online, GitHub. The course is designed to get researchers started with version control and demonstrate how to collaborate effectively as well as introduce version control best practices.
  • Transforming environmental data in R, a UKCEH Training Course
    • Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 May with optional ‘Introduction to R’ session on Monday 13 May.
    • Edinburgh or online.
    • From £499.
    • You will learn aspects such as auditable workflow, repeatability, time-saving, improving efficiency and reduced risk of data loss. You will participate in practical data transformation tool exercises using real environmental datasets to combine and manipulate datasets in different formats from different sources, leading to analysis-ready data. 
  • Structures in the Marine Environment Conference
    • Wednesday 22 to Thursday 23 May.
    • National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
    • £10.
    • Join to hear the latest highlights from the research teams and a review of all the outputs across 4 years of the INSITE programme, plus the practical application of INSITE science.

June 2024

  • Centre of Biophotonics Summer School 2024
    • Monday 24 to Friday 28 June.
    • St Andrews.
    • £270 (£150 for St Andrews PGRs), with discounted accommodation available.
    • The aim of the School is to provide participants with a solid background in cutting-edge microscopy techniques including single-molecule fluorescence, super-resolution, tracking, single-molecule force detection using optical tweezers, 4D confocal microscopy, and Raman sensing.

July 2024

  • STEM Communicators Network BIG Event
    • Wednesday 24 to Friday 26 July.
    • Cardiff and online.
    • £330, early bird until Monday 20 May. £380 thereafter. £70 online.
    • An opportunity to share skills and experiences, develop professional links and keep up-to-date with the STEM engagement field.

September 2024

  • NEOBIOTA – International Conference on Biological Invasions
    • Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 September.
    • Lisbon, Portugal.
    • Early bird pricing from 270€ (~£231) until Friday 14 June. 370€ (~£317) thereafter.
    • NEOBIOTA addresses applied and theoretical aspects of biological invasions, but also aims to educate the public.
    • Abstract deadline is Friday 19 April.
  • 45th TB Macaulay Lecture
    • Tuesday 10 September, 5.00 pm.
    • Free!
    • Valuing nature for transformation: innovations in policy, finance and practice around the world.

  • 57th European Marine Biology Symposium
    • Monday 16 to Friday 20 September.
    • Naples, Italy.
    • Early bird pricing of 300€ until Monday 20 May.
    • Save the date. Topic: facing the challenges of marine biodiversity loss.

October 2024

December 2024

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