On Friday 3rd May 2024 the CDT in Applied Photonics held a half-day training workshop followed by lunch for academic and industrial supervisors of current and prospective CDT students in the Technology Innovation Centre in Glasgow.

Representatives from our industrial partners, including Thales, Canon Medical Research Europe, UKNNL, Occuity, Coherent, and Fraunhofer participated in the event alongside some of our academic supervisors from the University of Strathclyde, University of Dundee, and Heriot-Watt University.

They heard talks on the CDT from our Centre Director, Deputy Director, Training Programme Manager and CDT Cross-Cohort Student Representative. In addition, one of our industrial supervisors provided an overview of his experience of supervising a CDT student.

We had positive feedback on the day, including:

“I thought that the event was very useful and well organised. I particularly enjoyed the session on student and supervisor expectations…”

“It was great the meeting was at Strathclyde. I could travel overnight to Glasgow and just walk over… Overall, I thought the training was good. There were some good points made…. It shows you all have the experience and knowledge.”

We hope to organise a similar event in 2025.