Training and professional development
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Training and professional development
We deliver expert-led chemistry training and professional development across a wide range of chemistry and chemical engineering fields, enabling you to:
- Stay up to date with the latest scientific advances, techniques and instrumentation
- Enhance your skills and knowledge for a new role or future career move
- Upskill to drive change, innovation and product development
With decades of science education experience and knowledge of industrial applications, our specialists can help you realise your potential through:
- Our globally renowned electrochemistry summer school
- CPD opportunities across a range of topics
- Training for chemistry teachers
- Bespoke chemistry training tailored to your professional needs and business objectives
- Simulated scenarios in our state-of-the-art virtual control room
Chemistry training and development opportunities
Electrochemistry summer school
Our flagship electrochemistry summer school is the gold standard for anyone seeking to expand their knowledge and technical skills in this field.
The five-day programme, Instrumental Methods in Electrochemistry, is taught by experts at the leading edge of electrochemistry research, and the curriculum is refreshed each year to reflect the latest techniques. The programme includes:
- Lectures on fundamental electrochemistry theory and electrochemical techniques
- Hands-on experiments using a range of industry-standard instrumentation
- Opportunities for informal networking and discussion with members of the University of Southampton Energy and Electrochemistry group, as well as other industry participants and PhD and postdoctoral researchers.
We are one of just a handful of institutions globally offering in-depth electrochemistry training at this level, and our long-running programme is considered the original and best in the sector.
Training and CPD opportunities
We offer training opportunities for chemistry teachers, researchers and industry chemistry and chemical engineering industry professionals. Areas include:
- Contemporary spectroscopy instrumentation (for A level chemistry teachers)
- Research data management and visualisation
- Cheminformatics
- Chemistry and materials machine learning
- Introduction to single crystal diffraction structure solution and analysis
- Oligonucleotide synthesis and methods
- Bioimaging and spectroscopy
Bespoke chemical engineering and chemistry training
We can build a tailored package to meet your training and chemistry CPD needs, drawing on our expertise across chemistry and chemical engineering.
Virtual control room
Our custom-built immersive virtual control room recreates the dynamic working environment of a control room operator. With sophisticated simulation models in a realistic setting, it provides a space to evaluate and develop your team’s skills and gain in-depth understanding of chemical process facility operations.
- Choose from 16 training simulations, ranging from beginner level to complex scenarios
- Simulations include virtual operation of a gas separator, condenser, binary column, crude column, batch and CSTR reactor, oil pipeline and more
- Alarms, custom desks, plant sound effects, and radio and phone communications mimic the workings and pressures of the control room environment
- Enables training and competency assessment of procedures and emergency scenarios, with video recording and action logs to monitor trainee performance
- Our expert staff will work with you to design a bespoke package and provide on-the-day support
Contact us to find out more and discuss your training requirements
Training and professional development expertise
Meet some of the specialists who are involved in planning and delivering our training and CPD opportunities.
Professor Sumeet Mahajan
Novel chemical biology methods, non-destructive chemical analysis, non-invasive chemical imaging, biomedical device development and neurodiagnostics
Professor Simon Coles
Crystallography, structural chemistry and digital chemistry
Professor Andrea Russell
Spectroscopic techniques for studying the electrode/electrolyte interface, particularly electrocatalysts
Professor Philip Bartlett
Electrochemistry, bioelectrochemistry and templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials