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Education and outreach

Education and outreach

Lessons learned from creating a physics graduate school

22 Nov 2018
Taken from the November 2018 issue of Physics World under the headline "Expanding the skills base".

Five years after the creation of a multi-institution graduate school for physics PhD students, Peter McDonald and James West outline the lessons learned

GRADnet workshop
Diligent learning: Mark Patton from Oxford Instruments NanoScience leads a GRADnet workshop to broaden the skillset of PhD students. (Courtesy: GRADnet)
The role of a PhD programme is to train students for a career in research – be it at university or

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Peter McDonald is at the University of Surrey and was director of GRADnet from 2013 to July 2018, e-mail p.mcdonald@surrey.ac.uk. James West is the former executive director of SEPnet (2010–2018)
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