E3 DTP PhD Students
Initial Training time plan of Semester 1 – 2015/16
Please note that any additional items to the time plan will be advised via email
Mon 14
September
Welcome Week Induction Programme
As previously advised via email
Tues 15
September
15:00 to 17:00
Welcome - Prof Pete Nienow – Director E3 DTP
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
17:00
Refreshments
Tues 22 Sept
15:00 to 17:00
Numeracy, Modelling and Data Management
Course session 1
Dr Simon Mudd
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Mon 28 Sept
09:00 to 17:00
P02394 – Research Planning and Management in
the GeoSciences
[Bring along your laptop/tablet as in some
sessions you’ll want to access the internet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
Frontiers in GeoSciences Course Lecture 1
Dr Simon Mudd, Deputy Director
[just behind Drummond Street building]
http://edinburghcentre.org/
09:00-10:30 - Introduction to the course
Dr Marc Metzger & Prof Kate Heal
 Doing science
 Research questions and research design
 Managing your PhD and your supervisor
11:00-12:00 - Research plan introduction
Dr Marc Metzger
12:00-13:00 – Lunch provided
13:00-14:45 Library Information Skills
Angela Nicholson (Information Services)
 Search for literature
 Using EndNote
[with Research Design in Human
Geography]
15:00-17:00 – Time management
Lorna Sinclair (IAD)
[with Research Design in Human Geography]
Tues 29 Sept
15:00 to 17:00
Numeracy, Modelling and Data Management
Course session 2
Dr Simon Mudd
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
Room 2.02
Old Infirmary [Geography]
Drummond Street
Mon 5 Oct
09:00 to 17:00
09:00 – 12:00 - Ethics and your PhD research
Nina Morris
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch provided
13:00 - 17:00 - Fieldwork planning and
preparation
Richard Chalkley
[only required for students whose projects
involved fieldwork]
[with Research Design in Human Geography]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Tues 6 Oct
15:00 to 17:00
Numeracy, Modelling and Data Management
Course session 3
Dr Simon Mudd
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Weds 7 Oct to
Friday 9 Oct
Field Trip - training programme to follow
Frontiers in GeoSciences Lecture 2
Prof Pete Nienow
Firbush – departing from the Grant
Institute the morning of 7 October
Tues 13 Oct
15:00 to 17:00
Frontiers in GeoSciences Course Lecture 3
Dr Eliza Calder
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Tues 20 Oct
15:00 to 17:00
Numeracy, Modelling and Data Management
Course session 4
Drs Richard Essery and Simon Mudd
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Tues 27 Oct
15:00 to 17:00
Numeracy, Modelling and Data Management
Course session 5
Drs Simon Mudd and Daniel Goldberg
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Mon 2 Nov
09:00 to 17:00
09:00 – 10:00 - Research plan progress
Dr Marc Metzger
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
10:30 – 12:00 - Intro to data management
Stuart Macdonald [Data library/MANTRA/] and
Chris Place
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schoolsdepartments/sport-exercise/outdoorcentre/about-us/introduction-firbush
http://edinburghcentre.org/
12:00 – 13:00 - Lunch provided
13:00 – 15:00 Writing Skills to support your PhD
Mimo Caenepeel [IAD]
15:00 – 17:00 Social media and your research
career
[move to Assembly Room 2.05, same venue][wider
school event]
Tues 3 Nov
15:00 to 17:00
Frontiers in GeoSciences Lecture 4
Dr Sian Henley
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Tues 10 Nov
15:00 to 17:00
Frontiers in GeoSciences Course Lecture 5
Prof Mat Williams
Room 2.02
Old Infirmary [Geography]
Drummond Street
Room 2.05 (Ogilvie) in the Drummond
St Geography building
Mon 16 Nov
14:00 to 16:00
Research plan progress meeting
Dr Marc Metzger
 Progress review
 Compare draft reviews
 Peer to peer exchange
Tues 17 Nov
15:00 to 17:00
Numeracy Modelling and Data Management
Course session 6
Dr Kyle Dexter
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Tues 24 Nov
15:00 to 17:00
Numeracy Modelling and Data Management
Course session 7
Dr Mark Naylor
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Tues 1 Dec
15:00 to 17:00
Numeracy Modelling and Data Management
Course session 8
Dr Ed Mitchard
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Tues 8 Dec
15:00 to 17:00
Numeracy Modelling and Data Management
Course session 9
Dr Kyle Dexter
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/
Tues 15 December
15:00 to 17:00
Frontiers in GeoSciences Course Lecture 6
Dr Richard Essery
[Bring along your laptop/tablet]
The Pod
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Innovation (ECCI)
http://edinburghcentre.org/