MASTS is made by and for its members
The MASTS Graduate School is a pan-Scotland initiative which provides education and training to the MASTS student community. This training includes both technical and core skills to ensure that MASTS graduate students have the full complement of skills required to achieve the best in their future careers.
Find internal training opportunities here and external training here.
For more details about MASTS Graduate School training please contact masts@st-andrews.ac.uk.
MASTS & SUPER seek to provide a supportive and nurturing environment for postgraduate researchers (PGRs) to develop both personal and professional skills and attributes. Whilst we provide access to group training and learning activities, sometimes an individual’s needs are very specific and are best supported through bespoke activities such as mentoring. As such, our mentoring scheme aims to contribute towards a culture of support across our partnership and in the research environment, with specific benefits for different groups.
We aim to deliver mentoring for our PGRs through two routes:
1. Within PGR-to-Staff mentoring partnerships
2. Supporting PGR mentoring and other skills development and early-stage PGR transitions, via Peer-To-Peer mentoring where later stage PGRs mentor early stage PGRs.
Each year students of the MASTS/SUPER Graduate School come together for an annual retreat. The goal of the retreat is to bring together the geographically dispersed MASTS/SUPER postgraduate community and to create a tight-knit network while providing useful and informative training sessions and seminars.
Feedback includes – “It was a great chance to meet other PGRs, staff and scientists and have informal conversations. The guest talks were great and well chosen, it’s always fascinating to know how successful scientists got to where they are today”.
The 2024 retreat will be held in person at the MacDonald Highland Resort in Aviemore (11-13 March), and will be followed by a two day residential PGR writing retreat. Retreat training sessions will include storytelling, grant writing, and innovation and impact in action. Guest speakers will be Jacqui McElhiney (FSS), Tracy Shimmieled (Lyell Centre) and Ben Wilson (SAMS). There will also be plenty of networking opportunities, plus more besides!
Speakers from previous years have included:
Mark Batho (CEO of SFC); Jonathan Benjamin (Wessex Archeology); Joanne MacDonald (NERC KE Fellow); Andrew Brierley (Professor, St Andrews); Lyndsey Dodds (WWF);Phil Newton (NERC); Nick Owens (SAHFOS); Linda Rosborough (Director, Marine Scotland); David Raffaelii (Professor, York University); Mark Shields (DECC); Prof Frank Rennie (UHI), Colin Moffat (Head of Marine Science), Simon Merrywest (University of Manchester), Sam Ilingworth (MMU); Andy Watson (Professor, University of Exeter); Elle Sibthorpe (Mindfully Wired COmmunications); Kate Wade (JNCC); Mark Inall (Professor at SAMS) & Carol Sparling (Director of SMRU).
MASTS was founded in 2009 to be a unique collaboration between marine research organisations, government and industry.
Charity Number: SC045259
Company Number: SC485726
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