Bangor University - PG Prospectus - 2012 - CRM

BANGOR UNIVERSITY POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2012

FOR LEARNING AND FOR LIFE

‘The 2008 research assessments identified ‘world-leading’ work in all of Bangor's 19 subject areas...

Teaching assessments were impressive, with half of the subjects rated as excellent.’

TIMES GOOD UNIVERSITY GUYIDE

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CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE STUDY OPTIONS STUDENT SUPPORT INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS AND SUPPORT STUDENT FINANCE AND FEES APPLYING AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS ACCOMMODATION FACILITIES AND RESOURCES BANGOR AND THE SURROUNDING AREA SOCIAL LIFE AND ENTERTAINMENT WHO CHOOSES TO STUDY AT BANGOR?

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES School of Creative Studies and Media School of English School of History and Welsh History School of Linguistics and English Language School of Modern Languages School of Music School of Welsh

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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING School of Education School of Lifelong Learning

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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LAW Bangor Business School Bangor Law School School of Social Sciences Bangor Business School London Centre

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COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES School of Biological Sciences School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography School of Ocean Sciences

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COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES School of Healthcare Sciences School of Medical Sciences School of Psychology School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences Institute of Medical and Social Care Research

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COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES School of Chemistry School of Computer Sciences School of Electronic Engineering

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INDEX LOCATION AND USEFUL CONTACTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIVERSITY Established in 1884, Bangor University has a long tradition of excellence and exceeds expectations, both for academic standards and student experience. Bangor University today is a thriving, forward-looking institution offering excellent postgraduate opportunities in both taught courses and research degrees.

We enjoy an excellent track record for teaching and research quality. The most recent UK-wide Research Assessment Exercise identified world-leading research in all of our 19 assessed subject areas with nearly 50% given the top grading of 3* and 4*.

Teaching standards are high with most departments rated ‘excellent’ for teaching quality. Coupled with the high calibre of research activity, students on taught postgraduate courses can enjoy teaching of a high standard delivered by true experts in their field.

Bangor has a strong research base across a spectrum of academic disciplines engaging in research at national and international levels. Research is carried out either directly in the Schools or in Research Centres and Institutes associated with one or more School.

Our mission is to be a leading research-led University with an international reputation for teaching and research. Bangor University will be recognised regionally, nationally and internationally as a centre of excellence for a varied portfolio of academic programmes and for the high quality of the experience it provides for its students and staff.

The University has a clear commitment to a quality student experience through teaching, learning and student support. Our high ratio of teaching staff to students enables us to focus on each student’s individual needs. We are committed to encouraging each and every individual student to reach their full potential.

“Bangor is a genuinely caring and supportive university community, and we take great pride in the first class services we offer our students.

These include academic, financial, career and personal advice support.

The quality of our teaching and research is worldclass, attracting students and staff from around the globe. In addition, there are numerous opportunities for students to get involved in a wide variety of activities. The stunning mountains of Snowdonia and miles of coastline provide the backdrop to a university experience which cannot be beaten.”

Prof JOHN G. HUGHES Vice-Chancellor, Bangor University

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INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE A Research-intensive University Bangor has a strong research base across a spectrum of academic disciplines engaging in research at national and international levels. The University provides strong support for research activities including encouraging links with commercial and industrial bodies in the UK and overseas. The University also aims to be responsive to local and regional needs and is particularly conscious of its north Wales location and role as a research resource and a training base for Wales.

Investment in Your Future As part of our commitment to providing first-class facilities for our students, the result of a multi-million pound investment programme can be seen on the University campus, with new student residences and academic facilities such as the Management Centre and the Environment Centre for Wales buildings already in place.

The University is also building a new £36M Performing Arts and Innovation Centre which will be home to cutting-edge teaching and learning facilities, a theatre, cinema space, a studio theatre, an outdoor amphitheatre, as well as social facilities including bars, dining and park areas.

Bangor’s Research and You Bangor’s teaching and research combined with high-quality facilities offer you worldclass research and learning opportunities. Whether studying a taught postgraduate course or a postgraduate research degree, you will contribute to our research excellence. You’ll benefit from teaching of a high standard delivered by true experts in their field and be directly involved with cutting-edge research.

The Research Assessment Exercise 2008 The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) measures the quality of research conducted in universities and other higher education institutions in the UK. The results are used by the higher education funding bodies to determine the level of research grant given to institutions.

The assessment categories are as follows: 4* = world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour 3* = internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour, but falls short of the highest standard of excellence 2* = recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour 1* = recognised nationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour Unclassified = falls below the standard of nationally recognised work The most recent UK-wide RAE identified world-leading research in all of our 19 assessed subject areas with nearly 50% given the top grading of 3* and 4*.

Areas of particular excellence include Accounting and Finance within the Business School which is rated as the best in the UK and Electronic Engineering which is rated second in the UK. In addition, Sports Science and Welsh are placed in the top 10 in the UK in their respective units of assessment and Psychology 11th in the UK. In the Arts and Humanities, the School of Music for example had 90% of its research staff rated as world-leading or of international quality.

And 90% of research staff in the Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences field which includes Ocean Sciences were also rated as world-leading or of international quality.

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AN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR THE REGION “Academically, Bangor has a long tradition of excellence. Founded in 1884, the University’s position as a first-class institution of higher education was reaffirmed by the most recent research assessment exercise, when 19 subjects were identified as having world-leading elements in their work…

Living costs are low and the crime rate for north Wales is one of the lowest nationally.”

SUNDAY TIMES UNIVERSITY GUIDE

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STUDY OPTIONS

A variety of study options are available at Bangor. Most of our students who study for a postgraduate qualification do so on a full-time basis, but many of our taught courses and research programmes are available on a part-time basis. Some academic Schools offer distance learning courses which allow students in full-time employment or with other commitments, and for whom a full-time university course is not a realistic possibility, to study for a high-quality, internationally recognised postgraduate qualification.

You may have a definite idea of which subject you wish to study but you may be unsure of the way in which you want to study it. The following information will explain the different postgraduate study options available at Bangor.

Taught Courses Postgraduate Diplomas and Masters Degrees normally entail one year full-time study.

The coursework element takes eight months, after which a postgraduate Diploma may be awarded. However, if you reach a sufficiently high standard in the Diploma assessment, you are given the option of carrying out a research project and submitting a dissertation (usually taking 4- 7 months) for a Master degree (MA, MSc, MTh, MMus, as appropriate). Most Masters courses can be exited at Postgraduate Diploma level. The Masters courses are similar to undergraduate courses in that they consist of lectures, projects and assignments. They can be more intensive with lecture programmes lasting all day, and many essays demanded throughout the course, in addition to the final research project.

Other postgraduate taught courses on offer include: PG Cert, PG Diploma, PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education – professional teaching qualification), MBA. Research Programmes The degrees of MPhil and PhD are research degrees and are awarded after the examination of a candidate’s thesis, produced following a period of research. While the majority of candidates pursue research degrees on a full-time basis, in certain circumstances it is possible to offer part-time schemes of study. You may register for these degrees at the beginning of any month.

An MPhil demonstrates possession of the skills necessary to carry out supervised research by the systematic analysis of existing data.

For students who wish to gain more extensive training in research an MRes involves fewer taught modules and a greater research element than a Masters.

A PhD shows the ability to conduct original research, having acquired the necessary research methodology skills. It will be an independent study, using new data, which advances the frontiers of knowledge in the subject area. Self-motivation is essential for successful completion of a research degree; research students often work in isolation, therefore you would often need to draw from your own resources to see your work through.

The usual period of registration for research programmes is: Full-time: MPhil 2 years / PhD 3 years Part-time: MPhil 3 years / PhD 5 years DClinPsy This 3-year full-time programme leads to the degree of Doctor in Clinical Psychology, and comprises taught courses, clinical placements and a substantial research project.

Applications for this course are NOT made through the University. They must be directed to The Clearing House for Postgraduate Courses in Clinical Psychology, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds, LS2 9LT. Please view their website for details and closing dates: www.leeds.ac.uk/chpccp

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A SPRINGBOARD FOR THE FUTURE

Postgraduates are highly employable and on average earn more than individuals whose highest qualiďŹ cation is an undergraduate degree.* For those who are already in work, postgraduate study can be a route to advancing in an existing career as well as opening up new employment opportunities. * according to Machin, S. and Murphy, R. , The Social Composition and Future Earnings of Postgraduates Report, Sutton Trust 2010.

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STUDENT SUPPORT

At Bangor, we place a high priority on caring for and supporting our students. This is reflected in the fact that Bangor was rated the top university in the UK for the help and support given to students (Times Higher Education Supplement). Whether you need help with a financial, personal, academic or administrative issue, we have experienced staff to help you.

Academic Support In order to equip postgraduate students with the broad portfolio of skills increasingly demanded by employers, we provide a series of transferable skills courses.

The Early Researcher Development Programme is designed to help postgraduate students at Bangor University to meet the requirements of the Researcher Development Framework of the UK Research Councils. This Framework emphasises the importance of postgraduate students developing generic skills that will aid their transition into a successful career alongside the specific research skills and techniques that they acquire during their programme. The Programme is delivered as a partnership between the Academic Development Unit and academic Schools and Colleges and is offered free of charge to all postgraduate students at Bangor, regardless of their source of funding. The training is delivered in a variety of formats, from formally taught modules through to half day workshops. We appreciate that there is significant diversity in the research methods and approaches in different disciplines, and in the prior experience of postgraduate students and their modes of attendance. Therefore, we offer a flexible programme that students, in consultation with their supervisors, can tailor to their individual needs and to the needs of their research projects. More details can be found on the Academic Development Unit website at: www.bangor.ac.uk/adu Study Skills The School of Lifelong Learning offers weekly study skills drop-in sessions during the two main semesters of the academic year. The sessions cover topics such as note taking, planning and writing assignments, oral presentations, preparing for exams, mathematics, statistics and numeracy. More details can be found on the School of Lifelong Learning website at: www.bangor.ac.uk/ll Research Students’ Forum The Research Students’ Forum (RSF) is the official representation group for postgraduate researchers at Bangor University. All postgraduate research students are eligible to participate and stand for election. The RSF works with the University to maintain and improve standards and facilities for the postgraduate community through representation on University task groups and committees. The RSF offers a social arena for new and existing research students to facilitate the creation of academic as well as social links between research students of different disciplines.

RSF also organises conferences, including the ‘Beyond Boundaries Conference’ which is Bangor University's annual conference organised by and for the postgraduate research community in Bangor and beyond. It provides opportunities for researchers from arts and science Schools to network and explore new perspectives and offers the opportunity for postgraduates, at an early stage of their career, to present their work.

Senior Postgraduate Tutors Each department has appointed a member of academic staff as the Senior Postgraduate Tutor who has a coordinating role facilitating communication between the Academic Registry and the department.

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A SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked Bangor as the top UK university for help and support.

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STUDENT SUPPORT

Student Support Services The Student Support Services and the Students’ Union offer the following assistance: • a free and confidential counselling service on an appointment or ‘walk-in’ basis.

• a mental health adviser to assist students to manage their studies and who can identify sources of help and support.

• a team of staff volunteers who will deal with crises and serious incidents involving students outside normal University hours.

• health care via daily surgeries where no appointment is required (you will need to register with a local General Practitioner). A student health nurse at the local GP practice also offers a health information and advice service.

• representation, personal support and advice on a variety of problems through the Students’ Union Advice and Representation Centre.

• an adviser for international students who can help with issues such as liaising with University departments or public and local organisations.

• a confidential Nightline support service run by students for students.

• our Chaplains provide support for all members of the University, regardless of their religious beliefs.

Disability Service The University welcomes applications from students with disabilities and aims to provide equality and opportunity for all students. Including information about your disability, medical condition, specific learning difficulty or mental health difficulty on your application form enables us to begin discussions about any study support you may need at an early stage. These discussions are in confidence and information will be shared only on a ‘need to know’ basis within the University, when appropriate and with your permission.

The Disability Service within Student Support Services offers a service for all disabled students whether full-time or part-time. Each person’s requirements are considered on an individual basis and the Service works within the framework of the University’s confidentiality policy.

Some of the help on offer includes: • personal and academic support and guidance • advice on strategies to make studying and everyday tasks more manageable • in conjunction with the Bangor ACCESS Centre, help with applying for finance through the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) from your local education authority or other funding provider • assist with the organisation of specific examination requirements • arrange for the provision of BSL interpretation • arrange for additional library provision and support • liaise on your behalf, if necessary and with your permission, with members of staff to ensure necessary arrangements are in place • liaise with your local Social Services for the provision of personal care support • through the DSA, provide support workers, for example mentors, note-takers, practical assistants • provide information about disability or mental health issues, and the services and support which might be available • refer you to other professionals who can help, for example, the Dyslexia Unit, Counselling Service or Community Mental Health Team You can contact the Disability Adviser at: Disability Adviser Student Support Services,1st Floor Neuadd Rathbone, College Road Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG Tel: 01248 388650 E-mail: disabilityadviser@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/studentservices

Bangor Miles Dyslexia Centre The Miles Dyslexia Centre’s Student Service provides all-round support for Bangor University students with dyslexia, and other specific learning differences such as dyspraxia and ADD /AD(H)D. The Centre also works with University staff, providing information and helping to build Bangor’s inclusive learning environment.

Our work with students (and staff) includes: • individual academic study skills tutorials • regular group workshops • a Personal Learning Support Plan agreed with students and their academic Schools, so that inclusive adjustments can be put in place • help applying for the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) • informal preliminary assessment for dyslexia, dyspraxia etc.

• help arranging full assessments with the Centre’s Assessment Service • advice for prospective students • working with the Disability Team in the Student Support Services Centre • working with academic Schools and the wider University to ensure inclusive policy and practice You can contact the Miles Dyslexia Centre at: Miles Dyslexia Centre Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG Tel: 01248 382203 E-mail: dyslex-admin@bangor.ac.uk www.dyslexia.bangor.ac.uk Postgraduate Ambassador Scheme At Bangor we have developed the Postgraduate Ambassador Scheme. This is modelled on our very successful undergraduate Peer Guide Scheme which offers a warm welcome and help with settling in to life in Bangor.

The Postgraduate Ambassadors offer a welcome to our new postgraduate students and will be on hand to help you find your feet in Bangor. They understand what it is like to make the step up to postgraduate study so they can give you a few friendly tips and introduce you to other students.

They are all familiar with what it is like to be a student at Bangor and will be able to show you where all the things are that you might need – from the launderette to the library, the shops to the seminar rooms, the choral society to the computer rooms. However, if you need any help or information they can’t provide themselves they will be able to point you in the direction of someone else who can help you.

Look out for them when you arrive – they’ll be visible in your academic School wearing their green ‘hoodies’. If by chance you don’t meet one for some reason, please contact: peerguiding@bangor.ac.uk

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A FRIENDLY, STUDENT CENTRED PLACE TO LIVE AND STUDY

The Careers and Employability Service At Bangor, we are committed to your personal and career development. To nurture this development and enhance your employability the Careers and Employability Service aims to help you acquire the ‘employability’ skills that are so highly soughtafter by employers to accompany your academic qualifications. The Service provides a year-round programme of individual guidance, workshops, employer talks and employment fairs. To supplement these advice and guidance services, they also run additional services that provide local part-time jobs, voluntary experience and summer work.

The JobZone – It can be a challenging task to find work in a new area but the JobZone, which is the University’s dedicated student employment service, is here to help. The JobZone can help you find local part-time work and we also advertise graduate vacancies with local and national employers. You can use our service online or visit us.

Work Experience – Work experience is a critical factor in gaining future employment.

We recognise this by providing you with advice and information on a wide range of term-time and vacation-based work experience opportunities, and even deliver a programme of work placements.

Volunteering – For students interested in volunteering whilst at the University we can help you arrange voluntary experience through various schemes. We also host recruitment days for local organisations and advertise national and international volunteering opportunities in our JobZone.

B-Enterprising Programme – This programme provides budding entrepreneurs with enterprise and business training and support. It will help you to consider and prepare for self-employment. We will also help you to develop enterprise skills in order to make you more successful whether you want to be an employee or run your own business.

You will learn how to network, think creatively, promote yourself or a product effectively as well as develop more practical skills to do with starting up a business.

Online Careers Advice – Because we realise that students often need access to careers advice at short notice, we offer online advice to supplement our usual guidance provision.

Alumni After your studies at Bangor, the Development and Alumni Relations Office will help you maintain your contact with the University from wherever you are in the world. A wide variety of benefits and services are available to alumni as well as channels for keeping in touch with former classmates, finding lost friends and help with organising reunions.

You can contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office at: Development and Alumni Relations Office Bangor University Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2DG Tel: + 44 (0)1248 382223 E-mail: alumni@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/alumni

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INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Support for International Students The University is very aware of the challenges facing international students in moving away from home to study, so we have a range of services and support to help you in the time leading up to arrival in Bangor and throughout your time here as a student.

Meet and Greet Service A meeting service for students who arrive at Manchester International Airport can be arranged. This service is only available to students travelling as a group or students travelling with their families. Students who wish to be met should contact the International Welfare Office and provide the following details: • Flight number to Manchester • Arrival date and time at Manchester • Full name • Mobile telephone number Please contact the International Welfare Office on: E-mail: internationalwelfare@bangor.ac.uk Tel : + 44 (0) 1248 388430 Students who arrive at Bangor by train on the Saturday and Sunday of the 1st weekend of the academic year are met by the Students’ Union and taken by minibus to their accommodation. In addition to this service, a taxi service operates from both the train and bus stations.

Welcome Week During the first week at Bangor a range of activities are organised to introduce you to studying and living in Bangor. Sessions include: study skills, registering with a doctor, registering with the Police, advice on work regulations, and other relevant issues. A special Orientation Day which is an opportunity to meet other international students, external organisations and take a trip around the surrounding area all help students to make friends, get to know their way around and settle in.

“It’s good to be able to communicate with staff at all levels - even the Head of School, who is tremendously busy but has never delayed in replying to my numerous enquiries. Having a degree from a leading University and studying with leading staff will help with finding a job or proceeding with my academic study.”

MOHAMMAD HASSAN, from Lebanon, studying an MBA in Banking and Finance

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International Student Ambassadors Bangor University strongly believes in looking after their students and making sure that everyone is made to feel welcome and settles in with ease. That’s why Bangor has a number of International Student Ambassadors to support international students from the application process right up to their graduation day.

The International Student Ambassadors are current international students who have been chosen to play a key part in the support programme offered to students during their studies as well as recruitment activities both within Bangor and overseas.

Further information and an opportunity to learn more about our ambassadors can be found at: www.bangor.ac.uk/studentlife/features/ambassadors Student Welfare Adviser Throughout the year, the International Student Welfare Office offers assistance and advice on a range of matters such as NHS health care in the UK, opening a bank account, immigration status and applications to extend your visas, work regulations and finding work, travelling outside the UK, Police registration, accommodation, bringing your family to the UK, nurseries and schools in Bangor, and English Language courses. We also arrange coach trips to places of interest.

For further advice and information, please visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/studentservices/international

“I found out about Bangor because there is an international cooperation between Bangor University and International Finance College, Beijing Normal University, where I used to study. The best thing about being a student in Bangor is receiving lectures by academic staff who are pushing back the frontiers of research and who will share their latest findings in lectures.”

GUYUE JI, from China, studying MSc in Accounting and Finance

Students from over 79 countries choose to study at Bangor every year and make up 12% of the total student population. Among these countries, we have students from China, Brunei, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Libya, Vietnam, Bangladesh, USA, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and numerous European countries.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS AND SUPPORT To enable you to have the best learning experience at Bangor, you must be able to communicate effectively in English. Students for whom English is not a first language will be required to provide evidence of English proficiency through an approved testing system such as IELTS or TOEFL. Entry onto postgraduate courses requires the following English Language minimum scores: • An overall score of IELTS 6.0 with no individual score lower than 5.5 • Computer Based TOEFL 220 • Some postgraduate programmes may require higher scores, please refer to the table below for full details.

ACADEMIC SCHOOL Business (Research Degrees) Business (MBA Banking and Finance) Education English Literature English Language & Linguistics Law Modern Languages (MA in Translation Studies) Ocean Sciences (MSc Marine Environmental Protection / MSc Marine Biology) Psychology Sport, Health & Exercise Sciences Theology and Religious Studies

IELTS REQUIREMENT OR EQUIVALENT 7.0 with no individual score lower than 6.5 6.5 with no individual score lower than 6.0 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.0 At least 7.0 in all aspects of the test 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.5 6.5 with at least 6.0 in each individual component score At least 7.0 in all aspects of the test 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.0 6.5 with writing component no less than 6.0 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.0 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.0

More information about English Language requirements can be found at: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/future/englishlanguage English Language Support The English Language Centre for Overseas Students (ELCOS) has over 25 years experience of running English language courses and provides language improvement and study skills courses to overseas students at Bangor University.

“The student reviews I read about Bangor University promised that the University staff are always more than ready to help. After studying here for one year, I can confirm this.

Students who have not achieved the English language level required by the University can undertake a pre-sessional course prior to the beginning of the academic programme in order to reach the required level of English language proficiency. Visit http://elcos.bangor.ac.uk/foundation for more details.

My personal highlight at Bangor University is the outstanding support from lecturers and library staff. Furthermore, the assignment topics, from which we had to choose, were always so interesting.

The Centre also offers general English language improvement courses and language and writing courses to help you develop your academic English skills whilst you study at Bangor. More information can be found at: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/future/elcos Alternatively you can contact: ELCOS Department Bangor University Neuadd Rathbone College Road Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2DF United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382252 E-mail: elcos@bangor.ac.uk

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Bangor University provides students with an intellectually stimulating study environment.

It feels natural to be here. As soon as I had set foot in Bangor I felt at home.”

TAMARA BUKATZ, from Germany, studying Law LLM

OVER 125 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH

“Bangor is an optimistic, multicultural, friendly environment with generous support for its students – helping to prepare for study and future challenges.”

SYED AJIJUR RAHMAN, from Bangladesh, studying for a PhD in Agroforestry

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STUDENT FINANCE AND FEES Tuition Fees The tuition fees cover the cost of your study at the University. The fees are determined by the students’ country of origin and sometimes vary depending on the type of subject being studied.

In order to be classified as a United Kingdom/European Union student for tuition fee-payment purposes, students must: • be settled in the UK or EU country on the date the course starts.

‘Settled’ is defined as being able to live in the UK/EU without restriction; and • have been ordinarily resident in the UK/EU for the full three year period immediately preceding the start of the course of study; and • not have been resident in the UK/EU wholly or mainly for the purposes of receiving full-time education during any part of the three year period.

Applicants who have been granted refugee status or exceptional leave to remain as a result of an application for asylum to the UK Government, will also qualify to pay the UK/EU rate of tuition fee.

This information offers a guideline only. For full details, please consult ‘The Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations’ which can be obtained from UKCOSA (www.ukcosa.org.uk). Further details can be found at: www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/main/fees For all current tuition fees and further information about fees for certain courses, please visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/main/fees Funding There are various sources of funding available to postgraduate students. It is essential that you start thinking about how to fund your postgraduate studies as early as possible as there are often deadlines set for applying for funding.

As well as considering external funding it’s worth knowing that Bangor University offers a number of its own Scholarships, academic School Scholarships, Studentships and Bursaries.

If you’re an international student you may be eligible for the International Entrance Scholarship – details can be found at: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/future/uwbscholarship.php Full details of sources of funding can be found at: www.bangor.ac.uk/studentfinance/postgrad/index.php.en Low Cost of Living Market research shows that the cost of living in Bangor is much lower than in other parts of the UK. Bangor has been described as “one of the cheapest places in Britain” to be a student (The A-Z of Universities and Higher Education Colleges) and is consistently ranked as one of the most economical places to study in the UK in various cost-of-living surveys so you can make the most of your money here.

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“Bangor is a small, friendly cathedral city set in a stunning location… The general consensus is that Bangor is a safe, clean and affordable place to live, and comes highly recommended.”

THE GUARDIAN UNIVERSITY GUIDE

Please Note: Where appropriate fees are quoted on a ‘per annum’ basis

HOME/EU STUDENTS 2011/12

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 2011/12

POSTGRADUATE TAUGHT Full-time Taught Masters (e.g. MA/MSc, MTh, LLM, MRes etc) £3,550 Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE: ITT) £3,375 (see www.tda.gov.uk/Recruit/thetrainingprocess/fundinginwales.aspx for bursary information) Bangor Business School Full-time MA/MSc £6,000 Bangor Business School Full-time MBA £9,700 School of Healthcare Sciences PG Diploma in Occupational Therapy (2 yrs.) £3,550 School of Law Executive LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy (2 yrs part-time) £4,497 School of Law LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy (1 yr) £4,998 School of Psychology MSc/MA Consumer Psychology with Business £6,000

POSTGRADUATE TAUGHT AND RESEARCH College of Arts, Education & Humanities (including PGCE) College of Business, Social Sciences & Law Bangor Business School MA/MSc Bangor Business School MBA College of Healthcare and Behavioural Sciences School of Law Executive LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy (2 yrs part-time) School of Law LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy (1 yr) College of Natural Sciences College of Physical & Applied Sciences

LONDON CENTRE London Centre Full-time MBA (Banking & Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance) London Centre Full-time MSc (Banking & Finance, Finance, International Banking and Development Finance) London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA (accelerated route) London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA (super accelerated route)

LONDON CENTRE London Centre Full-time MBA (Banking & Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance) London Centre Full-time MSc (Banking & Finance, Finance, International Banking and Development Finance) London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA (accelerated route) London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA (super accelerated route)

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH Full-time Research Programmes (PhD/DMin/DClinPsy /EdD/MPhil) Part-Time Research Programmes (per year) PhD full-time but in an external place of employment DISTANCE LEARNING MSc (price per 20 credit module) (dissertation)

£18,000 £11,000 £15,750 £7,750 £5,000

£3,732 £1,866 £1,866

£ 710 £1,184

DISTANCE LEARNING MSc Forestry (price per 20 credit module) (dissertation)

£9,800 £9,800 £12,000 £13,000 £12,500 £5,997 £11,994 £12,500 £12,500

£18,000 £15,000 £15,750 £7,750 £5,000

£1,507 £3,670

The above fees are indicative of those that will be charged by the University for the academic year 2011/12 (not every course is listed).

Fee levels are correct at time of printing, but may be subject to change.

There is likely to be an increase in the fees mentioned above for the 2012/13 academic year and the fee level will be determined during 2011. For further details, please visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/main/fees

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APPLYING AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS How to Apply You can apply online for all postgraduate taught courses and postgraduate research programmes (with the exception of the PGCE, Diploma in Occupational Therapy and DClinPsy – see below for further details) at: www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/taught/application

Applications for Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Candidates should note that the application process for the PGCE programmes differs from Bangor University's standard postgraduate application procedure. Applications are made through the Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR), which has earlier deadlines for submission.

You are strongly advised to read the Guidelines for Applicants before completing the form and also read the general application information at: www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/taught/apply_taught

Applications can be made online at: www.gttr.ac.uk/students/apply/

If you're unable to use our online application system, you can download the conventional application form and Guidance Notes (all in PDF or Word format) at: www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/taught/apply_taught

Applications for DClinPsy Applications must be made through: The Clearing House for Postgraduate Courses in Clinical Psychology, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds, LS2 9LT Telephone: + 44 (0) 113 343 2737 Fax: + 44 (0) 113 243 0908 E-mail: chpccp@leeds.ac.uk Website: www.leeds.ac.uk/chpccp

In some countries we have a network of Agents who can assist you with preparing and making an application – please see: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/our_agents Application for Postgraduate Research Programmes Applicants for a research degree are encouraged to identify and discuss the topic for research with the relevant department prior to submitting the application. The research degree application should include a research proposal outlining the topic, purpose and rationale behind the research in question.

A good research proposal is essential if you are applying for a PhD or MPhil. The proposal should include: (i) Overview – give a brief abstract of the subject area you wish to research and include information on the key theoretical, policy or empirical debates that will be addressed. (ii) Planning – you need to demonstrate that you are aware of the research timescales and have a plan in place to conduct your work. You need to demonstrate that the research is manageable in the given time period. (iii) Literature references – you need to show that your planned area of research has not been studied before. Provide references to key articles and texts relevant to your area of study. (vi) Methodology – you need to show that you are aware of the methodological tools available and have identified which ones would be suitable for your research.

International students are encouraged to apply 6 months in advance in order to allow for the lengthy visa issuing processes which may take months in some countries.

If you’re from a country outside the European Union, you should bear in mind that making immigration and visa arrangements can be a lengthy process, so please apply as soon as possible. It is possible for students to submit an application before they are able to meet all entry requirements, as the University will process the application, and may issue a conditional offer letter, stating the conditions that need to be met prior to registration.

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Further information about the GTTR can be found at: www.gttr.ac.uk

Applications for Diploma in Occupational Therapy The application form and details of the application process can be found at: www.bangor.ac.uk/healthcaresciences/occtherapy/admissions

Entry Requirements The qualifications, skills and qualities needed for postgraduate study at Bangor vary from course to course and academic School to School. Full details can be found on our online postgraduate prospectus at: www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/postgrad We recognise many different qualifications from around the world.

For details of international entry requirements, please visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/applying/entryrequirements English Language As the programmes are delivered and assessed through the medium of English at Bangor, and to get the most from your studies, students for whom English is not a first language will be required to provide evidence of English Language proficiency. If you need to take further studies to improve your English Language, you can apply to undertake English Language courses at the University's English Language Centre prior to the beginning of the academic programme.

See pages 14 for full details and required levels of proficiency.

Academic Entry onto postgraduate programmes requires a Bachelor/first degree from an approved University or Higher Education Institution.

Normally for admission to Masters courses the minimum degree classification accepted is a lower second class honours or equivalent and for research degrees an upper second class honours or equivalent. Bachelor degrees gained in the UK are normally accepted. For students with degrees from other countries please see: www.bangor.ac.uk/international

Mature Student Regulations Mature students who do not have the academic qualifications normally required for entry can be considered for entry onto postgraduate degree programmes. A minimum of two years relevant professional work experience can be recognised as an entry qualification and may be accepted in-lieu of formal academic qualifications.

Disability Support/Applicants with Additional Support Needs If you are an applicant with additional support needs, you can contact an adviser at the Disability Service (within the Student Support Service) to discuss any support needs you may have and arrangements that may be necessary.

Visit the website for more details at: www.bangor.ac.uk/studentservices/disability Alternatively please contact: Disability Advisers, Student Support Services, Bangor University, First Floor, Neuadd Rathbone, College Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DF Tel: 01248 388650 E-mail: disabilityadviser@bangor.ac.uk

Some programmes may require a higher degree classification or a higher degree award.

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ACCOMMODATION

A limited number of rooms are available for postgraduate students in University managed accommodation. All of the University accommodation is self-catered and kitchens are shared with fellow halls students. Equipment provided in the kitchens varies from residence to residence, but all will have basic facilities such as cookers, fridges and freezers. Our accommodation sites are situated throughout the city so you are never far from shops, pubs and cafes of all types. More details can be found at: www.bangor.ac.uk/accommodation However, many postgraduates prefer to live in the private sector, and information about lodgings, flats, cottages and houses can be provided by the Student Housing Office.

The Student Housing Office deals with private rented accommodation for students. You can access this information in the Student Housing Office itself, where staff are available to give help and advice. Most, if not all of the properties are also advertised on our website and you can search our database for your ideal property to rent. We also provide a Student Guide to Private Accommodation, which is designed to help you when looking for your first house in the private rented sector, pointing out the things to look out for and your rights as a tenant. For further information please visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/studentservices/studenthousing or e-mail studenthousing@bangor.ac.uk A range of eating venues, which are open to all, are available in various locations around the campus. These are situated on the main Ffriddoedd accommodation site (Bar Uno), the Normal Site (Y Bistro), in the Main Arts Building (Café Teras) and in the Environment Centre Wales Building (Caffi Glas). All our catering outlets use local and Fairtrade products whenever possible.

If you prefer to eat out, there are several restaurants and takeaways (Greek, Italian, Chinese and Indian) close to the main University buildings.

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FACILITIES AND RESOURCES Library and Archives Services To help you with your studies we provide a range of learning resources supported by experienced staff. We provide Library, Archives, Computing, Media and Reprographics facilities and services. We have over 1000 computers for your use, eight libraries, purpose built Media facilities and a Printing and Binding unit.

Experienced staff are on hand to help you get the best out of our resources during your study at Bangor.

Our main aim is to make sure you have easy access to the material you need for your day-to-day work. We have an extensive collection of books and journals and most journals are available online in full text format.

We also have databases, DVDs and CDs (with listening and viewing facilities); microform material; a wonderful manuscript collection, and PCs and wireless networks for you to access the wealth of information that is available on the internet.

In addition to the Main Library for arts, humanities and social sciences, business and law on College Road, there is the science and psychology Library in the Deiniol Building. Both have a study support room with assistive technology such as CCTVs, scanners and Braille embossers. There is also a Library for education and sport science at the George Site.

From our website you can find out about the library’s stock and also access e-books, e-journals, past exam papers, subject guides and other learning resources. You can make use of these electronic resources from anywhere – on and off campus.

We have special library collections including the Welsh Library which has books in Welsh on a range of subjects and books in other languages relating to Wales. We also have the largest universitybased Archives in the UK which contain literary and historical manuscripts and the archives of most major estates in north Wales.

Other special collections include the Bangor Diocesan Library, Sir Frank Brangwyn’s Library of art books and the Owen Pritchard Collection which is rich in the output of modern private presses.

If you have any queries relating to your use of the library and its resources, our trained staff will be happy to help.

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Subject-Specialist Resources We have a range of other learning resources which support specific subject areas: • a Multimedia Language Centre which uses digital technology through computers which are able to record and play back digital sound, and mix audio and text. Hundreds of exercises are available through a simple menu and test-based exercises can be used on most open-access computers around the University.

• the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences has two physiology laboratories, a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry room, underwater weighing room, climatic chamber, motion analysis room, psychology laboratory, computing rooms and lecture and study rooms.

• a Centre for Hill and Upland Management located 5 miles east of Bangor, which maintains strong links with local farmers. One section of this is used entirely for research and educational purposes, and has areas devoted to agroforestry, crop and livestock experiments. There is also a forestry demonstration area. The other part comprises lowland, improved upland and open mountain grazing, and is operated on a commercial basis.

• a £3.5M ocean-going Research Ship which provides practical experience at sea and the opportunity to develop projects on scientific cruises.

• a Natural History Museum, the only one of its kind in north Wales, which has a wide range of preserved material.

• Treborth Botanic Gardens are used for some of the teaching activities of the School of Biological Sciences and the School of the Environment, Natural Resources and Geography. Situated on the shores of the Menai Strait, the site has seven glasshouses, including a large landscaped tropical house, a large underground root research laboratory, a teaching laboratory, formal garden beds, a rock garden, an arboretum and a conservation collection.

Information Technology Services IT Services is responsible for the implementation and support of the University IT infrastructure and provides a wide range of facilities and services including high speed network access on campus and in all Halls of Residence and remote access to IT when off-campus.

The IT Support Centre staff are always on hand for the best advice, help and support on any IT matter.

IT Facilities on Campus - There are over 1000 computers for students to use in open access areas and computer rooms across campus, of these 200 are available 24 hours every day. All computers have the necessary software to support your studies at the University, including Microsoft Office, Web browsers, e-mailers, statistics and graphics packages etc. Printing facilities are available within or near all the open access computing rooms and in all libraries.

There are specialised computing facilities in the Main Arts and Deiniol Libraries for the sole use of disabled students or those with additional needs. The rooms contain computers running a range of assistive software, Braille embosser, Rainbow scanner, CCTV magnifier and height adjustable furniture.

IT Facilities in Halls of Residence - You can access the internet from Halls of Residence. Every bedroom in every hall has internet access, which is better than local home broadband.

You can access the University’s networked software from Halls of Residence. You can also access the networked software using our DesktopAnywhere facility without having to install any additional special software on your computer. This can also be used from home, wireless zones or within on-campus computer rooms, in fact anywhere you have a broadband or better network connection. The University also provides an e-mail account, and somewhere to store your academic work, both of which can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection.

IT Facilities for people living off campus - You can use the University IT facilities from home or anywhere away from the campus over any internet connection which permits web browsing, allowing you to access the same DesktopAnywhere service as students in Halls of Residence (see above).

Bringing your own computer to University - Computer ownership is not obligatory but if you do decide to bring a PC, we have easy to use wireless internet access across the campus.

Can I borrow a computer? - We have a laptop loan service – PC Notebook and MacBooks are available free for 1 week and 3 week loan periods from the IT Support Centre, Adeilad Deiniol.

Services for Disabled Students The University houses an accredited ACCESS Centre which offers study needs assessments for students eligible for the Disabled Students’ Allowance. Once your disability-related study needs have been assessed, a Needs Assessment Report will be produced and sent to your funding body for approval. For further information please contact the ACCESS Centre: E-mail: access_centre@bangor.ac.uk Tel: 01248 388101 www.bangor.ac.uk/access-centre In addition, the University also houses DSAKit, and IT equipment supply service specifically for DSA applicants. Where your funding body has selected DSAKit as the supplier they will coordinate the provision of IT equipments and software installation, and support you to get up and running quickly and easily. For further information, please contact DSAKit: E-mail: dsakit@bangor.ac.uk Tel: 01248 382104 www.bangor.ac.uk/dsakit Learning Technology Online Learning - The University’s bilingual virtual learning environment Blackboard is available on and off-campus for all users. It provides online support including course notes, audio and video material, blogs and quizzes.

Lecture Capture - Fully automated lecture recording systems are increasingly installed in main lecture rooms. If a lecturer has opted to use this service, the system records audio, and whatever is displayed on the projector. This is then saved and can be distributed through Blackboard, the University’s on-line learning environment.

Online Service - The University is developing on-line access to information and services to support you whilst at University, to save you time and energy. Our expanding range of online services includes services which will allow you to: • see your timetable online • check which modules you are studying • check your marks/grades • manage your IT account • join a discussion forum Printing and Binding Unit - We have a central printing and binding unit at the University and the services available include: • digital printing – high quality, fast turnaround, colour and black and white printing of dissertation/thesis, posters, flyers etc • T-shirt and mouse mat printing • binding of dissertation/thesis – hard and soft covers • laminating – from A4 to A0 (large format) • large format poster printing IT Help and Support - The IT Support Centre staff are always on hand to help with any IT problem, advice or just that extra bit of reassurance we all need sometimes. All new users are given a comprehensive guide on all IT Services available at Bangor (electronic and printed versions available). We also provide a wide range of IT Guides which can be accessed online.

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FACILITIES AND RESOURCES Sport and Fitness Bangor is exceptionally well-situated and well-equipped for students interested in sport – especially those involving the great outdoors. Rock climbing, mountain biking, canoeing, sailing and surfing are just some of the activities available, as well as team sports such as rugby, hockey and football.

The University’s Sport Centre, Maes Glas, has extensive indoor and outdoor sports facilities including 3 well-equipped gyms for cardiovascular exercise and weights training, a gymnastics hall, a multi-route climbing wall with ascents for varying difficulty, and a bouldering section, plus four international-standard squash courts.

Out of doors we have grass pitches for football and rugby, all in sites of scenic beauty, a floodlit synthetic pitch for hockey games and training, and two multi-purpose facilities for tennis, five-a-side football and netball.

Students’ Union The Students’ Union (SU) represents students on all matters, whether academic, competitive or social. The Union represents every student in Bangor, be they undergraduate, postgraduate, mature, international or part-time.

The SU provides a range of services, support, activities and entertainments for students and encourages you to get involved in a wide range of activities offered, as it’s an ideal way to meet new people and try new things. With around 100 clubs and societies operating out of the SU, covering a huge range of interests such as film, photography and drama to sports clubs such as canoeing, football and surfing, you’re sure to find something that interests you.

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A £20m redevelopment of facilities on the campus has taken place, including a £10m business and management centre and a building for environmental sciences.

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BANGOR AND THE SURROUNDING AREA The City and its Surroundings Bangor is an ancient cathedral city set in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the north Wales coast, where the Snowdonia mountains meet the sea. It is considered one of the safest and most costs effective cities in the UK in which to live and study. The area offers fantastic opportunities for students interested in the outdoors including sailing, hiking, climbing, surfing, rowing, kyaking and windsurfing.

The city has a vibrant shopping centre boasting the longest high street in Wales. There is a good mix of national chain stores and smaller local businesses. Bangor also has a good choice of supermarkets and a few minutes outside the city centre there is a retail park with a mix of national stores.

The compact size of the city itself means that student facilities – including accommodation, the Sports Centre and the Students’ Union - are within easy walking distance of the main University buildings. High Street shops, banks, supermarkets, restaurants and bars are also close by. The size and friendly nature of Bangor means it is easy to get to know people and our students settle in quickly. Student surveys show that a high proportion of students choose Bangor because of the small and friendly nature of the University and the town.

The cost of living is lower than in most urban areas, so you can make the most of your money in what is a very pleasant environment in which to live and study. The opportunity to find parttime work is important to some students and the University's Student Employment Bureau (JobZone) within the Careers and Employability Service can help you find suitable work. Also worth bearing in mind is the fact that, compared to many other university cities, Bangor is also considered to be a safe place to be a student (the crime rate for north Wales is one of the lowest in the UK).

While Bangor itself is compact and convenient, the surrounding area offers plenty of wide open spaces. The mountains and coastline of Snowdonia is an area of outstanding natural beauty, offering you wonderful recreational opportunities whether you’re interested in outdoor activities or just want to enjoy the scenery.

Historical towns such as Beaumaris, Conwy and Caernarfon (which all have their own castles) or picturesque places such as Beddgelert, Llanberis and Betws y Coed are well worth a visit. As a popular holiday destination, north Wales has much to offer in terms of tourist attractions and sights such as the Snowdon Mountain Railway and Thomas Telford’s famous Suspension Bridge. For day trips, the Victorian resort town of Llandudno and historical Chester are both easy car or train journeys away, while the fast ferry service from Holyhead to Ireland means a day trip to Dublin is also a popular option.

Location Bangor is far easier to get to than you might think - there are good road links to Bangor from the main UK motorway network (see map on page 76).

Bangor is served by direct trains from London Euston (approx. 3.5 hours travelling time), Manchester (approx. 2.5 hours travelling time), Birmingham (approx. 3 hours travelling time) and Cardiff (approx. 4 hours travelling time). The train station is a short walk from most of the University buildings.

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The location, the scenery and the surrounding area are amongst the reasons why many of our students choose to come to Bangor.

All this on your doorstep definitely adds a different dimension to student life.

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SOCIAL LIFE & ENTERTAINMENT Social Life and Entertainment Bangor is very much a University city - the entertainment and nightlife is student-orientated and student-led. The Students’ Union organizes a large number of student clubs and societies, covering a wide range of sporting, social, cultural, religious and political interests.

The latest films are shown at the nine-screen Cineworld Multiplex Cinema at Llandudno Junction. The Venue Cymru theatre, which is less than half an hour away, offers a variety of entertainment, ranging from rock concerts to comedy acts.

Where classical music is concerned, Bangor offers one of the most exciting and varied concert programmes of any British university with well over 30 concerts a season. As well as our own Chamber Ensemble, there are visits by artists of international calibre, regular performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and occasional visits from international orchestras.

Oriel Ynys Môn, on Anglesey, has a purpose built museum, art and events gallery. The gallery offers a dynamic programme of creative exhibitions, displaying the work of established artists and young talents alike. Wales’ premier art gallery, Oriel Mostyn, in Llandudno, has been described as ‘one of the most adventurous contemporary art venues in the country.’ It is also one of the most beautiful galleries in Britain, and shows exhibitions by major international artists.

“The best thing about being a student in Bangor is the size of the community and the environment it’s situated in. Bangor is a small town; I’d hate to live in a big city.

The University is surrounded by mountains on one side and the sea on the other. You can go hiking during the day and be back in time for a BBQ at the beach. The University offers activities geared towards postgraduates practically all year round and there are academic as well as social events to choose from.

There are a great variety of student clubs and societies here in Bangor. Being part of the Mountain Walking Club has made a big difference. Getting out of the office on weekends and clambering around mountains means a lot to me.”

ADRIAN LUESCHER, studying a PhD in Linguistics

An ambitious new Performing Arts & Innovation Centre on the University campus is set to have a transformative effect on the local economy, as well as become an internationally significant centre for learning, innovation and the performing arts.

The £36M ‘Pontio’ project – which means ‘to bridge’ in Welsh – has received investment from the Welsh Government and the European Regional Development Fund.

The Centre – which is due to open in 2013 – is expected to create and safeguard hundreds of jobs and become a platform from which economic growth in the area can develop. Pontio will become a hub for the local community, bringing people and businesses together to promote investment and regeneration in north Wales.

The Centre will include a dynamic Innovation Hub, cutting-edge teaching and learning facilities and a range of indoor and outdoor performance spaces including a theatre and cinema space, cafés, restaurants, and parkland where people can meet, learn and be entertained.

Bangor University’s Vice Chancellor Prof John G. Hughes said: “This is a once in a generation chance for Bangor. We will create an internationally significant Centre for learning, innovation and the performing arts that will be a potent symbol of regeneration and collaboration for the whole community.”

“This is a once in a generation chance for Bangor. We will create an internationally significant Centre for learning, innovation and the performing arts that will be a potent symbol of regeneration and collaboration for the whole community.”

Prof John G. Hughes Vice Chancellor

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AN INTERNATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT CENTRE FOR LEARNING, INNOVATION AND THE PERFORMING ARTS

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WHO CHOOSES TO STUDY AT BANGOR? With over 10,000 students from all over the world, Bangor offers you the chance to become part of a vibrant student community situated in one of the most attractive study locations in the UK and to study at a well-established university with an excellent reputation for both teaching and research.

The University is also situated in one of the most vibrant bilingual areas in the UK and promoting the Welsh language is integral to the University’s vision. In Gwynedd (the county where Bangor is situated) around 70% of the population can speak Welsh, and both Welsh and English can be seen and heard in all aspects of life. The University is proud of the area’s rich cultural and linguistic heritage and will continue to play a leading role in fostering this cultural vitality.

While the University remains an important resource for local people, over half our students come from outside Wales. This is a higher proportion than the average for all Welsh universities and colleges.

All our courses are taught in English, although for Welsh speakers there are opportunities to study a number of courses through the medium of Welsh. Over 25% of our students speak both Welsh and English, while 65% of staff are bilingual or are learning Welsh.

Bangor is recognised as one of the world’s leading universities in terms of research on bilingualism and language technologies.

Over half our students are females and we recruit students from all sorts of backgrounds being particular popular with students who value the smaller community feel which the University and city of Bangor offer.

Over 12% of our full-time students come from 25 European Union and 79 other countries worldwide. Some come from as far as Bangladesh, Brunei, Chile, Ghana, Japan, Kazakhstan, Libya, China, India, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Vietnam and USA.

“Bangor has got everything a big city has, but without the cramped space – including some award-winning restaurants. Bangor is also probably the only university in Britain that is surrounded by all you could possibly want to do, places to mountain-climb, surf, swim, rock-climb or just trail-walk.

I am very passionate about Fairtrade, while at Bangor studying for my undergraduate degree, I was lucky enough to act as Chairperson of the Fairtrade Society and we successfully achieved several targets for Bangor to become a certified Fairtrade university.”

JENNA TODD JONES, from South Wales, studying MSc in Clinical Neuropsychology

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“I first came to Bangor to do my undergraduate degree in Marine Biology. I heard about Bangor University from my biology teacher at school who said it had a good reputation and I should look at their courses. When I came to visit Bangor I could imagine myself studying and living here and I knew it was where I wanted to come and study. The proximity to the sea and the mountains was a big factor in winning me over to come and study here.

I’m studying at the School of Ocean Sciences which is situated in Menai Bridge on Anglesey. The department has a long history and a good reputation for research and education in marine sciences. Most people locally know it for the department’s research vessel the RV Prince Madog.

My PhD lasts for three years in which I’m required to produce a thesis at the end which documents and discusses the research I have been conducting. The best thing about a PhD can also, sometimes, be the hardest. It is great to be able to direct and focus your own research along with your supervisors and is a really exciting thing to do. Of course that means there can be difficult and pressured times but that is all part of the process which makes it very rewarding.

The student life in Bangor in my opinion is very special. There are many opportunities to try different sports and activities in such amazing surroundings, along with having such a compact campus and community feeling. Highlights for me have been going out on field work on the Prince Madog ship in the Irish Sea and on foot on Anglesey to collect samples from a local shore. Cycling through the Snowdonia mountains has been and remains a high point of life here in north Wales.

Postgraduate study is far more independent than undergraduate level. You have to motivate yourself and exercise a lot of self discipline, otherwise it can be easy to fall behind schedule in your work or wipe yourself out by working too hard.

Both academically and in terms of your student life you will not regret spending time studying at Bangor University.”

TIM WHITTON from Tring in Hertfordshire, studying for a PhD in the School of Ocean Sciences

“The whole Bangor experience has been great - it's the combination of the location, the people and the course.”

“Because I would be studying miles away from home, I wanted the University to be like a second home and I really felt it was my home away from home.

The warm welcoming culture of the people around, the greenery and the structure; everything was so perfect that I fell in love with the place.”

“It's a beautiful place with stunning scenery.

The lecturers and staff are very friendly and the University has a community feel about it.”

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES About the College Research into the Arts and Humanities at Bangor University dates back to 1884 when the University College was founded. The College of Arts and Humanities brings together a variety of collaborative projects and a wide-range of academic expertise, offering a diverse choice of postgraduate programmes of study. If you’re thinking about a postgraduate career in the Arts and Humanities, with over fifty different and challenging postgraduate programmes available, Bangor is a natural choice.

Research strengths Research in the College spans a wide range of discipline areas and in many cases combines expertise across discipline areas.

We have a proven international record of research achievement with the regular publication of books and articles by staff throughout the College – this means that you will be sharing a learning environment with academics at the cutting edge of their chosen field. There are also varied possibilities for research hosted in the College’s research centres, such as the Bilingualism Centre, the Centre for Research in Early Music, the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), to name a few.

Facilities The College has access to a wide range of University teaching, learning and support resources in addition to those resources which are made available by our constituent Schools. We have study rooms, where students have access to study space and IT facilities, and the library has a dedicated arts and humanities research room which houses reference volumes and is for the exclusive use of postgraduates and staff from the College.

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Centres of Excellence The following research centres are based within the College of Arts and Humanities: • Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies (CAWMS) CAWMS co-ordinates and develops Welsh musical scholarship by promoting conferences and publications, providing written resources in the medium of Welsh, and collaborating with scholars in other Celtic countries.

• Centre for Research in Early Music The Centre, founded in 2006, co-ordinates the activities of music staff engaged in research on music before 1700 – a concentration of specific excellence unequalled in any other institution in the UK. • Centre for Galician Studies in Wales A forum for research on contemporary Galicia. Issues pertaining to bilingualism and cultural identity and their relevance to both Galician and Welsh culture are of particular interest.

• Centre for Medieval Studies CMS fosters collaboration and scholarly exchange in Medieval Studies at Bangor and further afield, and, by extension, promotes teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level and encourages initiatives involving more than one department.

• Electroacoustic Wales Electroacoustic Wales supports electroacoustic music composition and research in the School of Music’s studios, organises and promotes concerts of electroacoustic music, stages workshops on the principles and practice of electroacoustic music, and acts as a conduit and focal point for discussion and co-operation between electroacoustic music composers, performers and listeners in Wales.

• ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice Research in the field of bilingualism draws on several disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, education, sociology, economics, and political science.

• The Graduate Programme in Translation Studies The Programme combines the expertise of academics and practitioners in the field of translation who are based at the School of Modern Languages, the School of Welsh and Bangor University's Translation and Language Technologies Unit.

• International Centre for Sacred Music Studies (ICSMuS) This new international centre of excellence sets out to stimulate, support, disseminate and engage in research and study in the interdisciplinary field of sacred music.

• R.S. Thomas Centre The Centre, a collaboration between the Schools of Welsh and English, was officially opened by R.S. Thomas in April 2000. Its archive contains an extensive collection of manuscript material by R.S. Thomas, including unpublished work, as well as all of his published works, together with a comprehensive collection of reviews, critical books and articles, interviews and audio-visual material. This material is available to visiting scholars.

• The Archive of Traditional Welsh Music A repository of recorded musical and verbal forms which are perpetuated in the oral tradition rather than through writing or printing. Primarily a research, teaching and training centre, the Archive endeavours to serve educational institutions and the general public.

• Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) The Institute builds on excellence in Arts and Humanities research at Bangor University and Aberystwyth University and takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the medieval and early modern periods.

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School of Creative Studies and Media About the School The School of Creative Studies and Media (SCSM) offers degrees across a wide range of creative arts, including film, journalism, media, digital and interactive media, professional writing and theatre. All of our courses combine the practical and the theoretical, ensuring that our students graduate with a comprehensive knowledge of their subject area.

Academic areas covered within the School The Masters degrees in the School offer you a blend of taught modules and personal supervision, allowing you both to pursue your own area of interest and draw upon the wide-ranging expertise of members of staff in the School, all within a structured framework. The MAs also allow you to pursue a blend of theoretical/critical and creative-practice work.

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A distinct feature which makes the School exceptional is the way in which students from the various disciplines are encouraged to interact with, and learn from, each other.

For example, students from screenwriting, theatre and media practice courses often work together to produce practical pieces of work. Our course structure is extremely flexible, and allows students to choose modules from outside their specialised disciplines.

PhD/MPhil study is available in subjects across the whole spectrum of the Creative Industries, with potential research or practice-led research specialisms in such areas as: Professional Writing, Film and/or Media Studies, New Media, Drama, Communications and related fields.

MRes • Film and Visual Culture*

SCSM facilities reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the School. As well as broadcast quality TV and radio equipment, the School has dedicated spaces for those studying games, digital media, journalism and writing, as well as a theatre and digital cinema. All of these facilities are gathered together in the John Phillips Hall – SCSM's home – situated on the shore of the Menai Strait.

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MSc • International Media Management (with Business/Law)*

PhD/MPhil • Creative and Critical Writing, Film, Media, New Media, Journalism, Creative Studies, Drama, Professional Writing PhD/MPhil Practice-Led Research • Creative and Critical Writing, Film, Media, New Media, Journalism, Creative Studies, Drama, Professional Writing

The study environment at Bangor couldn’t be better for studying at postgraduate level.

You will be joining a vibrant postgraduate community and a School with significant experience in teaching the creative industries at postgraduate level. In recent years, our postgraduate students have won numerous awards and scholarships and found academic and industry employment at such prestigious institutions as the BBC and in the entertainment software sector.

* new course – subject to validation

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 388560 E-mail: mediastudies@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/media

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Staff and facilities Our staff include both highly regarded academics and acclaimed creative practitioners, with strong regional, national and international links in the private and public sector. Academic staff specialise in diverse research areas such as East Asian media, vertical dance, technology and discourse, Jewish film, digital advertising, journalism, politics and risk, digital fiction, videogames and virtual worlds, live television, documentary film making, adaptation studies and comics. Staff expertise is matched by our state-of-theart purpose built facilities.

MA/Diploma • Creative Practice* • Digital Media* • Film-making: Concept to Screen*

Dr Astrid Ensslin, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, School of Creative Studies and Media Dr Astrid Ensslin’s specialist areas of interest are videogames and virtual worlds; digital fiction; semiotics and discourse analysis. She is currently working on publishing books on analysing digital fiction and literary videogames; and on the language of gaming.

“The School of Creative Studies and Media is keen on providing access to cutting-edge facilities in creative media, including the latest gaming technologies (consoles and mobile devices). The School has a special focus on creative technologies and a wide range of creative subjects, bringing together practitioners and scholars. Students gain access to my scholarly experience, resources and networks. They meet with me on a regular basis to discuss ideas and obtain feedback on their work, and they are directly involved in my teaching and research projects, including editorial work on the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. The School’s diversity of subjects and interests across creative industries, its national and international excellence in teaching and research and its friendly, dynamic atmosphere make it a great place for postgraduate study. The School has a vibrant postgraduate student community with wonderful networking facilities for taught and research postgraduates.”

School of English

The School offers an engaging and supportive environment for postgraduate study, focusing on small group teaching and one-to-one supervision. Postgraduate students work closely with academic staff in a research community that encourages interdisciplinary exchange and activity. Our Masters and PhD students are part of a lively Graduate School within the College of Arts and Humanities, which provides opportunities for productive exchange across its constituent Schools and disciplines.

Research activities initiated and run by our students include the annual postgraduate conference in medieval studies and medievalism, the staff and postgraduate students writing workshop, regular poetry readings, and the online postgraduate journal.

Overview of the academic areas covered within the School Our expertise lies in five key areas: late medieval and early modern literature, history of the book, Welsh writing in English, contemporary literature and creative writing, and film. Two research centres facilitate research in these areas: the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), a collaborative research institute between Bangor University and Aberystwyth University, focusing on research activities in the pre-1800 period, while the R. S. Thomas Centre fosters new work in this area of study, particularly through an engagement with primary source materials from the R. S. Thomas archives, acquired by Bangor University in recent years. Other areas of particular strength are Arthurian studies (drawing on library resources, as well as excellence in teaching and research over the last forty years), Milton, rhetoric and the literature of argument, medieval and early modern women’s writing and early modern drama, Shakespeare, and creative writing, with a team including award-winning poets and novelists. Bangor has one of the longest histories of teaching creative writing in the

UK and has pioneered the creative-critical interface that has allowed our graduates to excel in writing and publishing work.

A number of members of staff have interests in gender approaches to literature, while we have specialists in early modern rhetoric, modern drama (Mamet) and experimental writing.

In addition to the training in research skills that you will obtain at Masters level, we also offer specialist training in palaeography and codicology (medieval and early modern manuscripts, in Middle English, Middle Welsh, Anglo Norman and Latin). This scheme, started in 2005, continues to attract students from across Wales and the UK. Staff and facilities The interests of our staff extend from the medieval period to the twenty-first century and look beyond the UK to the exciting international landscapes of literatures in English. Our staff are all enthusiastic researchers and teachers and come together in the introductory postgraduate courses to pass on their invaluable knowledge and expertise.

The library holdings have been carefully developed to match the School’s research interests. We have major holdings of scholarly editions and critical texts in the fields of Arthurian literature, the early modern period (being particularly strong in the areas of Milton, Shakespeare, and early modern radical writers), and of Welsh Writing in English, particularly R. S. Thomas.

The library holdings also include facilities such as the usual research packages, including direct access to articles in JStor and all journals published by Oxford, Cambridge, and Wiley-Blackwell Presses, and to all published canonical texts through LION; a subscription to Early English Books Online (giving access to every book published between 1475 and 1740) and microfilms of the Thomason tracts, scholarly editions of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, and CD ROMs of the Brontës and Virginia Woolf.

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About the School The School of English has been an integral part of Bangor University since the University opened its doors in 1884. Our long history, strong tradition and wealth of experience are reflected in our expertise at postgraduate level, and complemented by a range of courses that allow our students to specialise in many areas of traditional and contemporary study. Our academic staff includes some of the world’s foremost authorities on Milton, Arthurian Literature, Herbert, early modern literature, the history of the book and Welsh writing in English, and all teaching staff in the School are successful poets, authors, critics or novelists in their own right.

COURSE LIST: MA/Diploma • Arthurian Literature • Creative Writing • Early Modern Literature • English • Medieval and Early Modern Literature • Medieval Studies (MA/Diploma) PhD/MPhil • Creative Writing • English

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: : +44 (0) 1248 382102 E-mail: pgadmissionstutor@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/english

STAFF PROFILE Prof Tony Brown, Professor of English, CoDirector R.S. Thomas Study Centre, School of English Professor Tony Brown’s specialist areas of interest are Welsh writing in English (especially R.S. Thomas); Twentieth-century English Literature (especially E.M. Forster); Twentieth-century American Literature.

“With my co-director of the R.S. Thomas Study centre, I am completing a selection of the ‘Uncollected R.S. Thomas’, i.e. the poems which Thomas published in journals, magazines and small press editions which were not included in one of his collections.

A selection of the 160 poems we have identified will be published in time for the centenary of Thomas’s birth in 2013.

I am also currently working on a monograph for the University of Wales Press, entitled Ex-centric Voices: A Study of the Englishlanguage Short Story in Wales. This will be the first book-length study of a genre which is, after poetry, the most important genre in the Anglophone literature of Wales.

I have supervised PhDs on R.S. Thomas, as well as on other aspects of Welsh writing in English (including Dylan Thomas), the fiction of Graham Greene, and the short stories of Thomas Hardy to name a few. The expertise and dedication of staff, and the detailed ways in which they bring that expertise to focus on the work of postgraduate students at MA and doctoral level, makes the School of English at Bangor an ideal place to study.”

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School of History and Welsh History About the School History has been taught at Bangor since the University was established in 1884 and Archaeology has been taught here since 1960. The School is located in the historical centre of the University, and the lecture rooms, arts library and archives are all close by. The School has an excellent reputation for teaching and research over a wide area, extending chronologically from prehistory to the present.

Equally, almost half the academic staff in the School have a major interest in Welsh history – from the age of the Welsh princes to devolution, and also including specialisms in early modern religious, social, economic and cultural history, the history of estates and rural society in the nineteenth century, and Welsh historiography (i.e. the history of writing Welsh history). You will therefore be taught by those who are actively researching and publishing in the areas in which you are studying.

Archaeologists take advantage of Bangor’s location in an area which has a wide range of archaeological monuments – prehistoric tombs and stone circles, Roman forts, medieval castles (including the World Heritage Sites of Beaumaris, Caernarfon and Conwy), and the remains of the industrial revolution. The research interests of the archaeology staff include the early prehistory of Britain and Ireland, the Celtic Iron Age in Europe and Britain, the Western Atlantic Seaboard, Wales and Ireland in the early middle ages, and the history of archaeology. Several members of staff have field projects in Wales and beyond.

In the field of Archaeology there are research strengths in the following areas: • Early prehistory: landscapes and seascapes, death and burial • Later prehistory and Roman: landscapes, settlement and burial, social archaeology, Celtic archaeology • Early medieval: art and sculpture, settlement, social archaeology, Celtic archaeology.

In the field of Heritage there are research strengths in the following areas: • Heritage management: national and international, public archaeology.

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Staff and Facilities With 18 teaching staff, the School has particular strength in Welsh history and Celtic archaeology. The library offers excellent resources in these fields, including a comprehensive collection of journals and newspapers, collections from published sources, and a wide range of books which deal with all aspects of Wales’s past. There is also a substantial collection of rare books.

The University Archives have the largest archive collection in Wales after the National Library, and are home to a wealth of manuscripts dating from the middle ages to the present – varying from the substantial collections of the Mostyn and Penrhyn estates to the papers of modern and contemporary politicians, literary figures and scholars as Kate Roberts, the pioneering socialist David Roberts and the historian John Edward Lloyd.

Overview of the academic areas covered within the School In the field of History and Welsh History there are research strengths in the following areas: • Medieval: the Anglo-Norman world; the history of women in the Middle Ages; religion, society and culture.

• The early modern period: religion, national identity and political rhetoric in England and Wales during the late Stuart era.

• Modern and contemporary history: charities; towns; racism and nationalism; the labour movement; history of sport; consumerism; devolution.

COURSE LIST: MA/Diploma • Celtic Archaeology • History • Medieval Studies • Welsh History PhD/MPhil • Archaeology • Heritage • History • Welsh History

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382144 E-mail: history@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/history

Prof Tony Claydon, Professor of Early Modern History, School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology and Head of the College of Arts and Humanities ProfessorTony Claydon’s specialist areas of interest are the politics, religion and national identity of people in late Stuart Britain. He is currently working on a series of related articles on the presentation of politicians as celebrities in the late Stuart press; the construction and understanding of time in newspapers under Queen Anne; sermons as propaganda; and the print debate over foreign policy.

“We have a collection of specialists in my period across disciplines - this has, for instance, allowed us to organise what has become the world's leading regular conference on the history and literature of the Restoration period (16601689) in Britain and Ireland. This sort of close interdisciplinary working extends outside my period as well: for example, as I wrote my recent article on perceptions of time in the press I had really productive discussions with colleagues from linguistics, English literature, media studies, and psychology.

The internet means I have access to the holdings of all the world's libraries for my key source - print culture; and this is supplemented by the University archive, which has an extraordinarily rich collection of material from north Wales and so allows me, and graduate students, to think about local case studies of national or international phenomena. For instance, with a PhD student, I am looking at the nature of news in a huge series of manuscript newsletters written by a paid scribe in London to inform Welsh gentry families in the late seventeenth century.

My skills in analysing print sources, and my experience of thinking about religion and national identities in the late Stuart period feed into my PhD supervision (for example topics on news values, and English views of Germany in the later seventeenth century); and into MA classes on reading the press, and modules on British identity.

The centralised Arts and Humanities Graduate School ensures students have the rich interdisciplinary experience I have enjoyed in my research; and it supplements the more subject-based support provided by the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology.

This includes a strong seminar programme; and a close and inclusive atmosphere which makes MA students feel welcome, and which rapidly integrates PhD students into the academic team.”

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“My research relates to Cognitive Linguistics, an approach to language and mind which places central importance on meaning, the role of cognition and the embodiment of experience. I specialise in cognitive semantics, particularly knowledge representation, lexical structure, the relationship between lexical structure and knowledge representation, and figurative language and abstract thought. My research has focused on investigating spatial and temporal language and cognition, and the nature of the linguistic and conceptual resources that we as humans marshal in service of meaning construction.

The current theme of my research is to investigate the intersection between the linguistic and conceptual systems that subserve linguistically-mediated meaning construction. This will develop in a booklength treatment: How Words Mean, which develops the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models, also known as LCCM Theory. I am currently working on a monograph Time in Language and Cognition, and a general audience book A Window on the Mind.

STAFF PROFILE

Prof Vyv Evans, Professor of Linguistics, Head of School of Linguistics and English Language, and Director of Graduate Studies

The School of Linguistics and English Language is the only department of Linguistics in the UK that specialises in Cognitive Linguistics, the area that I conduct research in.

Moreover, Cognitive Linguistics is an inherently interdisciplinary research enterprise, involving work in creativity, the mind, cognitive and social science as well as the Humanities. The interdisciplinary nature of research activities which cross number of Schools and Colleges at the University make it the ideal venue to conduct the type of research I carry out.

I teach on the MA in Cognitive Linguistics. My research informs the modules I deliver on this MA programme. This means that students are exposed to the very latest research. I also supervise research students in areas including creativity, abstract thought, meaning construction and conceptual structure. Students are immersed in the most up-to-date findings and practices in the field, and hence are well-placed to develop innovative and rigorous research agendas.

The School of Linguistics and English Language is relatively small and very friendly. Staff get to know students as individuals. There is also a strong and vibrant research culture in the School with excellent links with other Schools, Colleges and Research Centres, including Modern Language, Psychology, Education and the Bilingualism Research Centre. Postgraduates have a dedicated fullyequipped computer lab, and actively participate in research and social events in the School.”

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School of Linguistics and English Language About the School The School of Linguistics and English Language was established in 1960, making it one of the oldest Linguistics departments in the UK. The School provides a vibrant teaching and research environment, and is unique in the UK and internationally in terms of the areas of teaching and supervision that it offers. Students are taught and supervised by staff, all of whom are active researchers. Many of the staff in the School are recognised as international leaders in their fields of expertise.

perspective. The School also spearheaded the successful bid for a £5m Bilingualism Research Centre (2007-12), funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC). The Bilingualism Research Centre features state-of-the-art research facilities and a speech processing laboratory. The School is the only academic unit in the UK to offer an MA, and a PhD in Bilingualism. Moreover, the study of Bilingualism is central to the School’s Linguistics, and English Language undergraduate curriculum.

Postgraduate programmes in the School cover a wide range of theoretical and applied areas. While each MA course features compulsory training components, there are a wide range of option modules available. Students are supported in their learning by lectures, seminars and smaller tutorial groups, and are assessed in a range of ways, including research reports, and presentations. Learning is supported by a virtual BlackBoard system, which features a library of electronic reading resources that can be downloaded, discussion forums and lecture slideshows and other handouts. MA students progress through a taught component, comprising a range of compulsory and option modules, before embarking on a significant individual research project. This culminates in a 20,000 word dissertation, and is supported through one-on-one tutorials by a supervisor.

Cognitive Linguistics is the study of language that is informed by the psychological sciences. It provides an interdisciplinary approach which situates language within the study of the mind, culture and communication. Cognitive linguists assume that language reflects general cognitive abilities, and can be deployed to investigate certain aspects of the way the mind is organised. Members of staff in the School conduct research on various aspects of language, mind, text and culture from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Students can also specialise in cognitive linguistics at the PhD level.

Cognitive linguistics provision is central to the School’s undergraduate curriculum.

PhD study is supported by regular tutorials with a supervisor, as well as a second supervisor who has relevant expertise.

Students are also support by a taught research training and development programme, and can also take subjectspecific modules from the wide-range of postgraduate modules available through the School’s taught programme. PhD students have an annual allowance of funds available to them to participate in conferences, and are encouraged, as appropriate, to contribute to and participate in the School’s Research Seminar Series.

Strengths and expertise The School of Linguistics and English Language has two research priorities, in which it has world-class expertise. These are in the areas of Bilingualism and Cognitive Linguistics.

Bilingualism is the study of the way speakers of two (or more) languages acquire and use their languages and how these languages are represented in the mind. Bangor University is situated in the UK’s only truly bilingual region (WelshEnglish). Members of staff in the School conduct research on all aspects of bi/multilingualism, and adopt a multidisciplinary, empirically-informed

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Staff and facilities The School has eight members of permanent academic staff plus a Welsh medium Fellow. The School has three professors, with expertise in aspects of sociolinguistics, speech science and cognitive linguistics, as well as five lecturers with expertise including speech and language disorders, to first and second language acquisition, language structure and change, sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics, and figurative language and abstract thought. In addition, the School is proud to have David Crystal as its Honorary Professor, who spends a full day in the School each year giving a series of lectures on a range of language-related topics. Staff in the School conduct research on a wide range of languages including English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Lombard, Dutch and Welsh.

The School features a range of learning facilities including a computer laboratory reserved for the School’s postgraduate students, an extensive collection of books on Linguistics and English Language maintained by the Bangor Linguistics Society (a student run society), and a phonetics laboratory which includes recording, speech analysis and audio facilities.

COURSE LIST: MA • Bilingualism • Cognitive Linguistics • Linguistics PhD/MPhil • Bilingualism • Linguistics

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382130 E-mail: lingadmin@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics

Overview of the academic areas covered within the School In terms of taught provision, the School offers an exciting array of taught programmes covering all aspects of bilingualism, human communication, linguistics and cognitive linguistics.

Introductory modules cover aspects of meaning, grammar, and sound, as well as dealing with research methods. Advanced modules relate to a broad range of topics including grammatical systems, metaphor and thought, aspects of bilingualism, aspects of language acquisition and processing, aspects of sociolinguistics and culture, cross-linguistic surveys in domains such as space and time, and many other areas.

The School currently offers PhD supervision in a wide range of areas, including language acquisition and change, forensic linguistics, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, speech processing and acquisition, meaning and grammar, language processing, and speech and language disorders.

School of Modern Languages About the School The teaching of Modern Languages has featured in the University curriculum at Bangor ever since what was then the University College of North Wales welcomed its first students in 1884. Our work is based on this solid and continuous tradition and we embrace and promote the best of what technology has to offer the language learner. Our work has been recognised on the national and international stages.

We offer one of the UK's broadest and most flexible ranges of degree courses in French, German, Italian, and Spanish - plus many combinations with other subjects. We also provide modules which allow all students within the University the opportunity to develop their language skills throughout their time at Bangor.

The School of Modern Languages offers postgraduate research supervision in a variety of areas and languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Mandarin) in a friendly and vibrant environment. The School also hosts the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales and has close links with organisations all over the UK, Europe and the Far East.

We hold a regular Research Forum with a variety of guest speakers as well as regular events aimed specifically at fostering the research skills of our postgraduate students.

There is a lively and expanding postgraduate community within the School, and students work in a close-knit and supportive environment.

Staff and facilities At Bangor, we boast excellent research support facilities including dedicated work stations and a broad range of media and library resources.

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Depending on the chosen research area, students will be assigned one or two supervisors and are guaranteed full access to computing facilities, library provision, and all departmental resources including the film library and the Centre for Galician Studies library. You will be supervised by an enthusiastic and experienced team of academics who will encourage you to attend international conferences and publish your research.

PhD/MPhil • French • German • Italian • Spanish • Translation Studies

Overview of the academic areas covered within the School The School currently offers both taught postgraduate degrees and research-based postgraduate degrees covering a broad range of specialist and interdisciplinary areas. Translation Studies, Iberian Studies (including Catalan and Galician), German and Austrian Studies (with specific expertise on the post-1945 period), Italian Studies, Film Studies, Francophone Studies (both the 19th-century and contemporary period) and Comparative Literature.

MA • European Languages and Cultures • Translation Studies

PhD/MPhil by Practice • Translation Studies

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382118 E-mail: m.tait@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/ml

STAFF PROFILE Dr Helen Abbot, Lecturer in French, School of Modern Languages “I studied for my first degree in French and Italian at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and after a short spell working as an investment banking analyst in the city, I returned to academia. During 2002-3, I studied for an MA in the French department at King’s College London, working on authors as varied as Montaigne, Boileau, and Baudelaire.

I came to Bangor in September 2006 following the completion of my PhD at King’s entitled ‘The Aesthetics of Voice in the works of Baudelaire and Mallarmé’, supervised by Prof. Anne Green, which has now been published as a monograph with Ashgate. For a period of research leave in 2010-2011, I was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (University of London) and an AHRC Early Career Fellowship in order to research my new monograph on textual and musical re-workings of Baudelaire’s ‘La Mort des amants’, following on from a British Academy small research grant in 2008.

My postgraduate research (2002-2006) was also funded by the AHRC, and during my time in London I taught French language and literature at King’s, and Italian language at Roehampton University. I am also a classically-trained soprano, and regularly give solo and consort recitals.”

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School of Music

Our concert series is one of the most extensive and varied of any British university. It includes regular concerts by resident ensembles (such as the Allegri Quartet and the Orlando Consort whose members also give workshops and master classes) and Electroacoustic Wales; a further high point of the season is the annual Bangor New Music Festival. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales also visits twice a year, and we have links with the Welsh National Opera.

Strengths and expertise Within composition, outstanding specialist areas are electroacoustic composition and composition for film. Musicology focuses around three world-leading Research Centres: the Centre for Research in Early Music (CREaM), which in turn forms part of the interdisciplinary Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS); the Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies (CAWMS); and the International Centre for Sacred Music Studies (ICSMuS). Other specialisms include editorial musicology and music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Staff and facilities Our staff, together with graduate teaching assistants and more than 30 instrumental and vocal teachers, allow us to teach within our various research specialisms, and cover an exceptionally wide range of subject matter. All of our staff have international research profiles which feeds directly into the postgraduate teaching; students profit from this through regular one-on-one tutorials and/or teaching in small groups. A strong sense of support and mutual interaction is encouraged through our fortnightly research seminars.

Our excellent facilities include state-of-theart electroacoustic studios equipped to international standards for recording, research and composition; a music library with over 3,000 CDs, 20,000 scores and an extensive video and DVD collection, with a fully-equipped listening and video/DVDviewing room; a specialist Archive of Traditional Welsh Music; our very own building with teaching rooms, rehearsal space, and a number of individual practice rooms, full complement of pianos, harpsichords, organs, harps and percussion; a collection of over 300 world instruments. The University also has 2 fine concert halls.

COURSE LIST: MA/Diploma • Music • Music (Sacred Music Studies) • Performance • Welsh Music and Celtic Music MA/MMus/Diploma • Composition/Electroacoustic Composition/Sonic Art PhD/MPhil • Music (including composition) • Performance

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382181 E-mail: music@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/music

STAFF PROFILE

About the School The School of Music has a lively and stimulating postgraduate culture, with a lively community of taught and research postgraduates studying a wide range of areas. The School is small enough for students to feel a real sense of belonging, but large enough to offer exciting opportunities for collaborative work. We have a long tradition of academic excellence, with 70% of our work rated 3* (internationally excellent) or 4* (world leading) in the 2008 Research Assessment exercise, confirming our status as one of the UK's leading research universities. The School of Music was also awarded an 'Excellent' rating for the quality of teaching.

Prof Thomas Schmidt-Beste, Professor of Music, Head of School Music Prof Schmidt-Bests’s research interests are musicology, specifically music before 1600, sources studies, music editing and Mendelssohn.

“I am currently working on an edition of Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music to Sophocles' play 'Antigone' for the new complete edition of Mendelssohn's works, and I am leading a major AHRC-funded research project on 'The Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480-1530'.

Bangor is one of the few places in the UK where a long tradition of research in Early Music and in Source Studies / Musical Editing is still being upheld, and I have a number of colleagues in these areas (and also outside of the department in relevant related fields) with whom I can collaborate.

Also, Bangor has a wonderful sense of community, both amongst staff and between staff and students.”

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School of Welsh About the School The survival of Welsh in the modern era – both as a living language and a dynamic literary medium – is a truly remarkable story. As Wales gradually evolves into a vibrant bilingual nation, there has never been a more exciting time to study the language and its literature at postgraduate level. Bangor University is located in an area where 69% of the population is able to speak Welsh. No other university offers such a unique linguistic environment to study a living Celtic language and its literature.

Bangor University’s contribution to the growth of modern Welsh scholarship and learning has been immense. It was here that John Morris-Jones compiled his monumental Welsh Grammar (1913), which forms the basis of the modern literary language. Between the 1930s and 1960s, it was at Bangor that Ifor Williams produced the first modern scholarly editions of the earliest Welsh poetry. Bangor also had an instrumental role in the production of three of the outstanding reference works of contemporary Wales, The Welsh Academy English-Welsh Dictionary (1995), Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (2007), and the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (2008). At present, the School of Welsh has expertise in all of the major fields of Welsh literature, and among its staff are some of contemporary Wales’s leading writers and creative practitioners.

Staff and facilities Our staff are leading international experts in their respective fields of study. Their publications encompass both the medieval period and the literature of Wales in more recent times. The School has expertise in all of the major fields of Welsh literature, and among our staff are some of contemporary Wales’s leading writers and creative practitioners.

Students can take advantage of the excellent IT Services on offer at the University together with an extensive collection of books and journals in our Library and Archives Service. Many of the journals are available online in full-text format and we also have databases, videos and CDs; micro material; a wonderful manuscript collection and a web-based catalogue to access e-books, e-journals, past exam papers, subject guides and other learning resources.

Overview of the academic areas covered within the School If you have experience of studying literature or comparative literature at undergraduate level, we would be interested in hearing from you. Wales has an unbroken literary tradition which extends back to such medieval highlights as the tales of the Mabinogion (which include the Welsh Arthurian legends), the heroic poetry of the Book of Aneirin and the love and nature poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym. During the twentieth century, writers such as T. Gwynn Jones, Saunders Lewis, Kate Roberts and T.H. Parry-Williams gave a dynamic new direction to the literature of Wales.

You may also have an interest in the social history of minority languages and the manner of their survival in the modern world. How did Welsh survive the industrial revolution? What was the fate of the Welsh diaspora in north America? What is the connection between Welsh and the growth of nationalism in modern Wales? If you are intrigued by such questions, a postgraduate course at the School of Welsh at Bangor is for you!

The great merit of our MA course is its flexibility and the fact that it allows a free choice of topics within the broad parameters of the discipline. If, for example, you are primarily interested in medieval literature, your course will be structured accordingly. If, on the other hand, you wish to undertake a study of modern Welsh literature, or, if you wish to pursue the social history of Welsh, our MA course will be able to accommodate your academic interests.

Research for the degree of MPhil or PhD may be conducted in the main fields of Welsh literature from the medieval period to the present, e.g. early court poetry, Welsh saga poetry, the tales of the Mabinogion, Dafydd ap Gwilym, the poets of the Welsh gentry, literature and society 1500-1900, the Welsh diaspora and Welsh culture of north America, the modern Welsh novel, modern Welsh poetry, the modern Welsh theatre.

For those students who have no knowledge of Welsh prior to enrolment, the School works in close partnership with the University’s Welsh for Adults Unit, which has a host of courses and opportunities for students wishing to learn the language.

Your language tuition needs will be assessed as part of the application process.

Before embarking on your postgraduate course, you may well decide to take advantage of the Welsh for Adults Unit’s intensive three-week summer school for beginners.

COURSE LIST: MA/Diploma • Cymraeg/Welsh • The Celts PhD/MPhil • Astudiaethau Celtaidd/Celtic Studies • Cymraeg/Welsh Please note: the courses above are Welshmedium courses. For those who have no knowledge of Welsh prior to enrolment, the School works closely with the University’s Welsh for Adults Unit. Your language tuition needs will be assessed as part of the application process.

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382240 E-mail: cymraeg@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/ysgolygymraeg

DID YOU KNOW...

Novels written by two lecturers in the School of Welsh were selected for the long list of the Wales Book of the Year 2011 competition.

Gwenddydd, by Dr Jerry Hunter tells the harrowing story of a soldier’s relationship with his sister, who is a nurse, and the horror of their experiences during the Second World War. “With war still plaguing our world, we often hear about the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on the lives of soldiers and former soldiers,” says Dr Hunter. “I wanted to highlight the perennial aspect of that story by setting it in a recent – or more recent – time.”

Caersaint, which went on to win one of the four runner-up prizes, is a popular humorous novel by Dr Angharad Price.

Her love for the town of Caernarfon was the inspiration behind the novel which follows the ups and downs of the main character, Jaman Jones.

“When students come to Bangor to study Welsh they have the opportunity to be taught by some of Wales' leading writers,” says Professor Peredur Lynch, Head of the School of Welsh. “These latest novels by Angharad Price and Jerry Hunter are indicative of the extraordinary creative energy that we currently have in the School of Welsh.

Their success also demonstrates that Bangor is at the forefront of contemporary literature.”

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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING About the College The College of Education and Lifelong Learning boasts excellent postgraduate opportunities for those seeking to enhance their career prospects whilst being supported by an excellent team of high profile academic staff specialising in a variety of subject areas.

Teaching excellence and research is central to the College. Whether you are thinking of taking a taught Masters or a research degree, either as a parttime or full-time option, you will study with leading specialists, with those who are passionate about their field and alongside knowledgeable experts who write and contribute to books and journal articles. We pride ourselves on the high level of academic and pastoral support provided to students.

Research, strengths and expertise The College of Education and Lifelong Learning is exceptionally pleased that its research excellence was recognised in the most recent government Research Assessment Exercise results, with half of its work classed as of international quality, and 10% seen as world-leading. In Wales, it is the top ranked Education institution. Students can be sure of first-class supervision and teaching from those at the forefront of research in their field.

Centres of Excellence The following centres are based within the College of Education and Lifelong Learning: • ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism Together with the Schools of Psychology and Linguistics, the College leads a £5 million ESRC Bilingualism Centre at Bangor. To build on this considerable success, the College is expanding its research activity partly by adding more postgraduate researchers to its research teams.

• The North and Mid-Wales Centre of Teacher Education The North and Mid-Wales Centre of Teacher Education is a Centre of excellence in Initial Teacher Education and Training. The Centre is a partnership between Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities. It offers a unique and vibrant experience for those wishing to pursue a career in teaching. The Centre provides the best possible start for trainee teachers in primary and secondary teaching.

The College of Education and Lifelong Learning specialise in the following research areas:

• World Education Centre Aims to promote education for sustainable development and global citizenship in Wales.

• Bilingualism/Bilingual Education • Inclusion/Special Educational Needs • Intercultural Education and Global Citizenship • Professional Aspects of Teaching in Schools and Higher Education

• Welsh National Centre for Religious Education (WNCRE) Directed by Bangor University in collaboration with Trinity College, Carmarthen, a Church College of the University of Wales.

Members of the education research groups work closely with research funders, the Welsh Government, Local Councils, schools and parents groups to ensure that their research has a real impact on policy and practice.

The College has a long tradition of welcoming international students from a broad range of diverse backgrounds. Established links exist with HEIs in many European countries particularly Finland, Spain, Austria, and the Netherlands, while co-operation exists with institutions in sub-saharan Africa, north America and Asia.

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“Studying at Bangor was a choice that became evident as my son has also undertaken a graduate course here at Bangor University. Moreover I found the overall environment here at Bangor conducive to learning.

As I was previously involved in the profession of teaching, I was awaiting the opportunity to further my academic skills in this regard and therefore decided to take this course that would not only further my understanding of the field of education but would enable me to enhance my teaching skills within this field.

The course comprised four taught modules that covered areas of Bilingualism and Bilingual education, TESOL, World Citizenship and Research methods. In a way I am really grateful to the course director and our tutors for selecting these modules as they have allowed us to develop an insight into different disciplines that can be further explored. In other words the students have been afforded an opportunity through this academic experience to broaden their horizons.

For my Masters project both the Research methods and the Bilingual education modules although challenging, have allowed me to explore the bilingual attitudes and perspectives of the Pakistani Pashtun community towards their heritage language whilst residing in a Welsh/ English society such as Bangor. This experience in itself has enabled me to try to fill a small gap in an ongoing process of researching linguistic minorities of the UK. Further education has many advantages. As mentioned earlier, it broadens one’s horizons allowing one to be able to reach one’s full potential. It definitely boosts self confidence and helps in deciding as to how a future career can be attained in the field of education and learning.

I feel immensely blessed with the tutors I had during this course. They were not only academically supportive but their mentoring skills helped me overcome the stresses I was experiencing during this time. Their overall encouraging attitude made this course achievable.”

FRIHA YASMEEN KHAN from Anglesey, studying an MA Education Studies

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School of Education About the School The School of Education has an established reputation in the field of teacher training.

The School also has well-established partnerships with Primary and Secondary schools to provide varied and supportive training environments. Under the guidance of enthusiastic staff, the School also provides a wide range of other progressive courses leading to a range of postgraduate qualifications. You can pursue courses through the medium of Welsh or English or bilingually. In the European context this bilingual expertise gives an exciting dimension to all our courses and provides students with opportunities to develop European links.

The School has a friendly atmosphere and students from all regions and different backgrounds quickly settle in. We offer a lively and enriching working and social environment with unrivalled resources for your study.

The content of the taught elements of the MA and EdD programmes reflect the expertise and experience of staff within the School. A wide variety of modules are on offer and include Bilingual Education, Intercultural Education, TESOL, Inclusion/Special Educational Needs, Diversity in Education, Counselling, Early Years Education, Children’s Rights, Global Education and Educational Leadership. You will also receive training in Research Methods.

The School offers full and part-time PhD, MPhil and EdD research supervision in a wide range of Educational areas focusing on the research expertise within the School which include Bilingualism/Bilingual Education, Inclusion/Special Educational Needs, Intercultural Education and Global Citizenship and Professional Aspects of Teaching in Schools and in Higher Education.

Staff and facilities To help you in your studies we provide a range of learning resources supported by experienced staff. In our Education Library we have an extensive collection of books and journals and many of the journals are available on-line in full-text format. We also have computer labs on site and dedicated postgraduate study rooms for full-time students where they can study, hold seminars and gather to discuss their research in a supported learning environment.

Overview of the academic areas covered within the School For almost forty years, Bangor has offered a flexible, part-time, modular Master of Arts/Master of Education which meets both the professional and the personal needs of teachers, health workers, social care staff and other professionals.

Our part-time postgraduate courses are aimed both at working people looking for career developments, and at those wishing to study a subject at a more advanced level.

When reviewing applications, we take professional and personal experience into account, and consider all students on merit.

Due to our excellent reputation in Education Studies, we now offer the part-time MA in Singapore and we also offer a full time MA and EdD programmes in Bangor.

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STAFF PROFILE

The School is regularly involved in much developmental work, including the field of Welsh-medium education.

COURSE LIST: Postgraduate Certificate in Education – PGCE • Primary Education • Secondary Education MA/MEd/Diploma/Certificate • Education Studies (Full-time) • Education Studies (Part-time) PhD/MPhil • Education EdD • Education Doctorate Programme

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383012 E-mail: education@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/education

Dr Anwei Feng, Reader in Education, School of Education Dr Anwei Feng holds an MA degree in applied linguistics and a PhD in education.

He has had teaching and research experience in tertiary institutions in many countries such as China, Hong Kong, Singapore as well as the UK. He is currently a Reader in Education in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning and directs the graduate programmes within the School. He is also Senior Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice.

Dr Feng teaches and researches in many areas in education, with particular interests in intercultural studies in education, bilingualism and bilingual education, international and comparative education, and minority language education. He supervises PhD and Education Doctorate students whose thesis topics include ‘intercultural team teaching’, ‘intercultural education in multicultural societies’, ‘ethnographic studies of third-culture kids in international schools’, ‘bilingual education for pre-schools’, and ‘mass media, intercultural competence and TESOL’, for different contexts.

School of Lifelong Learning About the School The School of Lifelong Learning provides high quality and flexible part-time educational opportunities across north Wales - from individual modules to parttime undergraduate and Masters level study. Our part-time postgraduate courses are aimed both at working people looking for career developments, and at those wishing to study a subject at a more advanced level. When reviewing applications, we take professional and personal experience into account, and consider all students on merit.

The School is involved in a wide range of projects related to various aspects of lifelong learning. Our main areas of interest are: • Rural community development • Equality and diversity issues, especially gender • Global citizenship • New technologies and lifelong learning Many of our projects complement our teaching activity enabling us to develop new learning materials, and to extend our activities to reach a wider range of learners across north Wales. Most of our projects also have a significant research and evaluation component. We frequently work in partnership with other organisations, including those from other European countries, and we currently have contacts with organisations in the Czech Republic, Spain, France, Germany, Portugal and Ireland.

Overview of the academic areas covered within the School The Women's Studies programme has been taught at Bangor since 1994 and is currently the only course of its kind in Wales. Over the last decade women from across north Wales and from many walks of life have studied on this course.

The Community Development programme brings together University staff from a range of disciplines and practitioner tutors from across the region. Guest speakers from across Wales, the UK, the EU and global regions are invited periodically to contribute according to their areas of interest and expertise.

MA Fine Art* This new MA has been developed in response to the successful BA (Hons) Fine Art programme which is unique in Wales and the UK and has been Highly Commended at National Level by The Universities Association for Lifelong Learning.

COURSE LIST: MA/Diploma/Certificate • Community Development (part-time) • Fine Art* • Substance Misuse* • Women's Studies (part-time) * new course - subject to validation

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382475 E-mail: ll@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/ll

Postgraduate Certificate in Substance Misuse Studies* This new postgraduate level programme is aimed at professionals seeking up to date skills in this area.

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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LAW The College of Business, Social Sciences and Law is a forward-looking and expanding College, bringing together three related disciplines to form a College with a sound research base which delivers the highest quality courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

With a combined faculty of around 130 staff, and a teaching base in the city of London, we can also provide you with the excellent personal support for which Bangor is well recognised, nationally and internationally.

Our research centres provide collaborative opportunities for both staff and research students, and provide the backdrop to our postgraduate taught programmes.

Our teaching is informed by world-class inter-disciplinary research. The College achieved an excellent set of results during the most recent Research Assessment Exercise in 2008 with the Business School leading the UK table, ahead of all other universities conducting research in the area of Accounting, Banking and Finance. These results has enabled the Business School to take its first-class education and expertise to the city of London, offering innovative MSc and MBA degrees in Banking and Finance, as well as the groundbreaking Chartered Banker MBA programme, in its new centre in the heart of London’s financial district.

Top researchers and senior staff within the College also teach on our Masters programmes. This means that students will have the opportunity to study with and receive lecturers by academic staff who are pushing back the frontiers of research.

The College of Business, Social Sciences and Law is committed to providing quality facilities and resources to support and promote students’ learning experience, which includes dedicated Postgraduate study areas, with individual workstations and networked access. The College also benefits from a world-class training and conference centre, which offers part-time executive and professional management training in high quality state-ofthe-art teaching facilities.

These complement the excellent resources offered centrally by the University such as extensive IT, library and archive facilities. Amongst these is ‘Blackboard’, a virtual learning environment where recordings of lectures, notes, reading materials and many other resources are made available for students to access.

“The best thing about studying a postgraduate degree in Bangor’s School of Social Sciences is the sense of intellectual freedom and the encouragement you are given to explore your own ideas.

Looking back I feel I have achieved so much whilst studying for my PhD at Bangor. As I was allowed to design my own study and given a large amount of freedom to develop and progress in directions of my choice I feel that I have achieved something which is truly unique and which I have sole ownership over.

I am currently working as a Criminology Lecturer and Course Leader at the University of Huddersfield, and I recently published a journal article and a monograph based on my thesis. Certainly the experiences I’ve had at Bangor have enabled me to do all this. I now plan to write a number of journal articles based on my PhD and to develop some research ideas for a research bid.”

CARLA LEIGH REEVES, from Caernarfon (North Wales), who studied an MA and a PhD at Bangor

“The MBA Banking and Finance is extremely well-suited to anyone wanting to enter the finance field. The course teaches you about other functions within business organisations and how they work together, whilst maintaining a focus on finance. The assignments taught me to be analytical and critical, which will definitely help in my aspirations to become an Analyst. Best of all, the staff are very supportive and helpful, ready to help you with whatever you need.”

ZEENAT SAYED, from India, studying an MBA in Banking and Finance

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Bangor Business School is ranked No1 in the UK for Accounting, Banking and Finance Research following the most recent government research assessment exercise [2008].

“After completing the LLM in Commercial Law at Bangor Law School, I returned to China to prepare for the Chinese National Judicial Examination. I am now a fully qualified Chinese Lawyer with a major International firm based in China. I am so grateful for everything that Bangor and the Law School have offered me. At Bangor, I enjoyed one of the most wonderful experiences of my life and I have known the most sincere and helpful people that I have ever met. Without their help and knowledge, I would not have achieved all this.”

HONGBO HEI, from China, studied an LLM in Commercial and Business Law

“After gaining my LLM at Bangor, I was accepted onto a PhD at University College London. I have also been in New York doing an internship in the Office of Legal Affairs division of the United Nations. All this is thanks to the Bangor Law School’s excellent teaching, support and enthusiastic lecturers.”

BOLANLE ADEBOLA, from Nigeria, studied an LLM Law

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Bangor Business School About the School Bangor Business School is one of the major European university schools for financial and banking studies offering a full range of disciplines from undergraduate to doctoral level. It is currently the top Business School in the UK for research in Accounting, Banking and Finance following the most recent Research Assessment Exercise in 2008.

Students are attracted by its reputation for high quality and expertise, particularly in the area of Banking and Financial Services in which Bangor is a leading European centre which houses one of the largest PhD schools of any business school in the UK. Staff research papers and articles are published regularly in leading journals and their books published to a worldwide audience.

Bangor Business School’s teaching and research have not only been highly rated by external agencies, but also by our students and the businesses that employ our former students. We have a proven track record in producing highly skilled and highly employable postgraduates, with the broad range of abilities that employers require from new recruits.

Internship Programme Postgraduate students at the Bangor Business School are able to apply for internships with a number of leading banking organisations, including a number of well-known international banks. Through these placements, students are offered the opportunity to experience the world of practical banking at first hand. Internships are normally undertaken at the end of the academic course at Bangor and details of the application process are supplied to students during the course of their studies at Bangor.

Staff and facilities Bangor Business School’s top researchers and senior staff who were responsible for achieving the No 1 position in the UK for Accounting, Banking and Finance research, also teach on Masters programmes. This means that students will receive lecturers by academic staff who are pushing back the frontiers of research.

During recent years, Bangor Business School staff have undertaken policy work and consultancy linked to their research for organisations as diverse as the European Commission, World Bank, IMF, UK Treasury, European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, Spanish Savings Bank Association, as well as many other national and international organisations.

Bangor Business School has one of the most impressive Advisory Boards of any UK Business School. Membership includes top professionals from business, industry, government and the business school sector who advise the School on strategic development issues.

In addition to the scholastic research for which it is respected worldwide, Bangor Business School’s bespoke Management Centre undertakes market-facing research in conjunction with local businesses, as well as providing first-class professional training courses and conference facilities.

Overview of the academic areas Bangor Business School’s excellent record in postgraduate teaching is reflected in the innovative nature of our degree programmes, and the performance of our students at Masters and PhD levels. Bangor Business School established the first MA in Banking and Finance offered by any UK university in 1973, and more recently was the first to offer MBAs in Banking and Finance and Islamic Banking and Finance.

Postgraduate students at Bangor Business School can choose between several types of higher degree programmes and subjects.

These include taught MSc, MA and MBA degrees in the fields of Accounting, Banking, Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, Business, Management, Marketing, Consumer Psychology, Computer Science and Law. The Business School also runs a highly successful programme for students who wish to study for the research degrees of MPhil or PhD. Bangor Business School offers a number of attractive Scholarships and Bursaries to encourage well-qualified and talented students to reach their full potential.

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COURSE LIST: MA • Banking and Finance • Banking and Law • Business and Marketing • Business with Consumer Psychology • Consumer Psychology with Business • Finance • Islamic Banking and Finance • Management and Finance MSc • Accounting and Finance • Banking and Finance • Business with Consumer Psychology • Consumer Psychology with Business • Finance • International Banking and Development Finance • Islamic Banking and Finance • Management and Finance MBA • Banking and Finance • Banking and Law • Chartered Banker • Environmental Management* • Finance • Information Management • Islamic Banking and Finance • Law and Management • Management • Marketing PhD/MPhil • Accounting, Banking, Economics, Finance, Management Studies * new course - subject to validation Bangor Business School London Centre Bangor Business School now has a centre in the city of London offering a portfolio of specialist MBA degrees to individuals who wish to live and study in London.

See page 52 for further details about our London Centre.

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383023 E-mail: business.pg@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/business

STAFF PROFILE

Prof John Thornton, Head of Bangor Business School John Thornton is a Professor of Global Finance and Head of Bangor Business School. Prior to joining the Business School in 2008 he was with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, where he was, respectively, an Assistant Director in the Western Hemisphere Department, the Fiscal Affairs Department, and in the Middle East and Central Asia Department. He also held posts as the IMF resident representative in Nepal and in Costa Rica.

Professor Thornton has also been a staff member of the Economics Department of the Organization of Economic Development and Cooperation in Paris, a Vice President of Economics at Merrill Lynch International in London, and a Lecturer in Macroeconomics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

“Bangor Business School provided me with a solid academic grounding in economics and business. What I learned at Bangor I still use today in my position as Chief UK Economist at Deutsche Bank in London. The standard of teaching was excellent.

Bangor Business School set me up for life, and has helped me enormously in my subsequent studies and my career.”

Dr George Buckley, Chief UK Economist, Deutsche Bank, London

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Bangor Law School About the School Bangor Law School is an innovative and expanding international law school, focusing on legal systems and the legal environment in the UK and internationally.

Our courses address contemporary issues relevant to the business and political environment worldwide and they will equip students with the knowledge and skills required for operating successfully in the global marketplace.

The academic experience is enriched both by a programme of regular distinguished guest lectures and seminars and the activities of the award-winning Bangor Students' Law Society.

Staff and facilities Bangor Law School promotes an environment of learning and research. Our team of experienced and multilingual staff are graduates of many leading universities, and some have been previously employed as professionals within the legal sector in roles such as judge, solicitor and magistrate. This expertise is reflected in the teaching of Masters courses, as well as extensive research activity and projects such as the €3.7 million ‘Winning in Tendering’ Public Procurement Research Project.

Coupled with this rich combination of backgrounds, staff members’ research reflects varied interests and expertise in fields such as EU Law, Corporate Finance Law, Maritime Law, International Law, Commercial Law, Company Law, Administrative Law, Law and Religion, Child and Family Law, and Intellectual Property Law. Developing young professionals through MPhil and PhD research training is central to the School’s mission and the doctoral programme makes an important contribution to the training of future researchers.

Being a key School within the College of Business, Social Sciences and Law enables inter-disciplinary research with banking and financial studies, in which Bangor Business School has been ranked the No.1 position in the UK for research in Accounting, Banking and Finance. Regulation and risk, key issues within mainstream Banking and Financial Studies are also an important theme within Law. In order to support our students throughout the course of their studies, both the Law School and the University centrally provides a range of learning resources supported by experienced staff.

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support and advice to students. It includes printed and electronic sources that reflect current teaching and research within the Law School.

The collection includes Reference, Statutes, Law Reports, Journals, Books and Pamphlets, Official Publications, Newspapers, European Documentation Centre and Online Databases.

Overview of academic areas We offer a suite of LLM programmes and joint MA/MBA’s reflecting the School's expertise and commitment to high level postgraduate teaching. These include a range of LLM degrees, focussing in particular on International Commercial and Business Law; Criminology; International Law; Public Procurement Law and Strategy and an LLM in Law and Devolved Governments reflecting constitutional changes in the UK and elsewhere. The Law School also provides expert PhD and MPhil supervision in a range of legal areas.

The Law School has joined forces with Bangor Business School to offer four joint Masters degrees combining Law with Banking and Management disciplines, preparing key executives who will play a central role in the successful management of modern enterprises, and preparing capable banking executives and banking lawyers who will move into key positions in the financial sector.

We also offer a general LLM which allows students to select from a range of modules on offer by the school.

To help students achieve their full potential, Bangor Law School offers a range of scholarships and bursaries for postgraduate students.

COURSE LIST: LLM/Diploma • International Commercial and Business Law • Law • Public Law and Devolved Governments LLM • Executive LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy • International Intellectual Property Law • International Law • International Law - specialising in European Law • International Law - specialising in Global Trade Law • International Law - specialising in International Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law • Law and Banking • Law and Criminology • Public Procurement Law and Strategy LLM Res • Law MA • Banking and Law • Criminology and Law MBA • Banking and Law • Law and Management PhD/MPhil • Law

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383023 E-mail: law.pg@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/law

STAFF PROFILE Dr Suzannah Linton, Professor of International Law, Bangor Law School Dr. Suzannah Linton, previously of the University of Hong Kong, recently joined Bangor Law School as Professor of International Law. Professor Linton is spearheading the introduction of four new LLMs in the area of International Law, and developing the Law School’s research agenda in these areas.

Professor Linton brings to Bangor a rich international background and many years of professional experience with the United Nations and other global organisations. She lectures and presents regularly around the world, engages in international research projects, and teaches at international summer schools.

Widely published in top international titles such as the Leiden Journal of International Law, Chicago Journal of International Law, Criminal Law Forum, and Human Rights Quarterly, Professor Linton is currently working on an edited collection on Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials for Oxford University Press, to be published in 2012. This follows her launch of the acclaimed Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials Collection at the University of Hong Kong Libraries in December 2010. She is also presently engaged on another publication for Oxford University Press, on the General Principles and Rules of International Criminal Procedure, along with colleagues from other universities.

School of Social Sciences About the School Established in 1966, the School of Social Sciences is a thriving centre for teaching and research in the fields of, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Social Policy, Social Work, Public Policy, Sociology and Health and Social Care.

Our Masters degrees offer thorough training in the principles and practice of social research, whilst allowing students to follow their interests through a range of specialised modules. We are known for the thoroughness of our teaching and our care for students.

We also have a reputation for research of national and international excellence and the products of this research are continually fed into our courses. Many publications and articles by staff have international reputation in particular fields. The staff also supervise MA, MPhil and PhD students in their own specialist areas. This means that you will be taught by tutors who are actively researching and publishing in areas you will study.

All of our degree schemes offer a thorough training in the basic principles of social science, a wide choice of specialised subjects, training in the practice of social research and preparation for a wide variety of career opportunities.

The School of Social Sciences offers bursaries for MA and PhD students.

Strengths and expertise The most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) concluded that almost all the research submitted by the School of Social Sciences was worthy of international recognition, and some was world leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour.

Research in the School of Social Sciences has four main themes: Communities and Social Networks; Minority Languages and Cultures; Policy Evaluation Research; Crime and Civic Society. These have provided the platform for more focussed, collaborative activity based around the Schools research centres: • Wales Institute for Social & Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) • Centre for Applied Research & Evaluation Sciences (CARES) • Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice (WCCSJ) • Methods and Research in the Social Sciences (MARSS) The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) has an ambitious programme of work to help researchers make better use of data, develop large interdisciplinary projects, conduct research on a series of localities, and build partnerships with organisations and local communities. The centre brings together social scientists from across Wales who work together to develop a more detailed picture of the people of Wales through the collection, analysis and dissemination of data in areas from economic activity and growth to education, community participation, health and social care.

Overview of academic areas covered within the School We offer a portfolio of Masters programmes reflecting the School's expertise and commitment to high level postgraduate teaching. These include a range of MA degrees, focussing in particular on Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice; Sociology; Language Policy and Planning; Social Research and Social Policy; Policy Research and Evaluation; Criminology and Law and Social Work.

The Masters by Research, MPhil and PhD are higher degrees awarded on successful completion of advanced training and research leading to a thesis. The aim of a research degree is to provide broadly based social science training as well as specific training in specialised subject areas that are relevant to the research project. Overall, the training provides the context and the skills for the student to undertake an original investigation, culminating in the preparation of a thesis which represents an independent and original contribution to knowledge.

COURSE LIST: MA/PgDip/PgCert • Advanced Social Work • Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice • Criminology and Sociology • Language Policy and Planning • Policy Research and Evaluation • Social Research and Social Policy MA • Criminology and Law MARes • Criminology, Criminal Justice, Social Policy, Sociology PhD/MPhil • Criminology and Criminal Justice • Social Policy, Sociology

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383023 E-mail: socialsciences.pg@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/so

STAFF PROFILE Prof Ian Rees Jones, Professor of Sociology and Head of School Ian Rees Jones was appointed Professor of Sociology in 2007. Prior to coming to Bangor, he was Professor of Sociology of Health and Illness at St George’s, University of London where he is now a Visiting Professor. He also holds an Honorary Professorship in The Division of Medicine at University College London.

Professor Jones’s research interests span the historical sociology of health, medicine and welfare. He is currently working on social change and inequalities in health, contemporary trends in lifestyle and consumption, ageing in post-war Britain and community, new technology and later life and social theory applied to comparative welfare. If you are interested in undertaking a PhD in any of these fields, he would be happy to hear from you.

He is currently lead investigator on an ESRC funded project mapping changes in social space and lifestyles since the 1970s using the British Regional Heart Study. He is also leading an AHRC funded review of research on community, connectivity, place and elective belonging in later life.

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Bangor Business School London Centre About the Centre As one of the leading Banking and Finance Schools in Europe, and building on its No.1* position in the UK for Accounting, Banking and Finance research, Bangor University’s Business School is now delivering a portfolio of specialist MBA and MSc degrees at its centre in the City of London.

Staff and facilities Leaders in the field of Banking and Finance research who teach on the degrees at the Bangor campus also teach at the London centre giving confidence to students that programmes have similar structure, content and the same high quality as that set at the Bangor University campus.

*according to the UK Government’s most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008)

Bangor Business School’s top researchers and senior staff who were responsible for achieving the No.1 position in the UK for Accounting, Banking and Finance research, also teach on MBA and MSc programmes in London. This means that students will receive lecturers by academic staff who are pushing back the frontiers of research.

The Bangor Business School London Centre, which is based at the impressive Broadgate Tower, a brand-new development in the heart of the banking district, enables the Business School to deliver its cutting edge financial services programmes to individuals who wish to live and study in London.

Location From our modern, centrally located offices we offer a first class learning experience and deliver courses respected by international employers. The London centre enables both busy executives and full-time students to benefit from the wealth of knowledge and expertise that exists within Bangor Business School. Whilst executives may combine their busy careers with professional development, full-time students may further develop their knowledge and skills through part-time employment and the Bangor Business School internship scheme.

Every student will be provided with a set of core text books and a laptop, which provides access to Blackboard, Bangor University’s online learning resource and to the University Library Services’ electronic reading materials such as e-books and ejournals. Students will also have free access to City Business Library, which is located within a short distance to Broadgate Tower, and all city of London libraries.

Each successful applicant will be considered for a scholarship (valued at up to £10,000) to provide financial support for full-time students studying at our London Centre.

COURSE LIST: MSc • Banking and Finance • Finance • International Banking and Development Finance MBA • Banking and Finance • Chartered Banker • Finance • Islamic Banking and Finance

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 207 596 2873 E-mail: londonenquiries@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/londonbusiness

“Since I graduated in Banking and Finance from Bangor Business School I have enjoyed a varied career in finance and general management. My latest role, as Chief Operating Officer at No.10 Downing Street, demonstrates that Bangor has a reputation that is widely respected both in the City, where early in my career I worked in Banking, and in the Civil Service who value highly people with a broad financial background.”

ERIC HEPBURN, Chief Operating Officer, Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street

The UK’s No.1 Business School for Accounting, Banking and Finance Research is now delivering pioneering MSc and MBA degrees from the heart of London.

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LOCATED IN THE IMPRESSIVE BROADGATE TOWER AT THE HEART OF LONDON’S FINANCIAL DISTRICT

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COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES The College of Natural Sciences is one of the leading centres in the UK for teaching and research in biology, environmental sciences and ocean sciences. Our aim is to educate and train a new generation of scientists aware of societal needs in a world-class research-led environment. Our international links are extensive and our research interests extend across a range of habitats with global significance from coral reefs to the polar ice caps.

The College is made up of three schools: The School of Biological Sciences, which offers postgraduate courses in biology, molecular biology, natural sciences and ecology; the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, which offers courses in environmental sciences, conservation and forestry; and the School of Ocean Sciences, which offers courses in marine biology, ocean sciences and Marine Geoscience.

The College has an international research reputation in areas critical to society, such as research into the causes of cancer, the implications of climate change, the promotion of sustainable development and the conservation of biodiversity. The advantages of combining research and teaching include students being taught by scientists at the forefront of their field, and lively interactions between students and staff.

Our research is organised into the following research groups: • Living with Environmental Change • Development and Disease • Molecular Ecology and Evolution • Plants, Soil and Ecosystems • Land-Ocean Systems Science • Sustainable Production and Development Bangor provides a superb range of marine, freshwater, wild and farmed terrestrial environments locally. We have first-class research and teaching facilities including molecular biology and DNA sequencing facilities, a Botanical Garden, experimental grounds, a University-based farming business and experimental areas for forestry, as well as a state-of-the-art seagoing research vessel – the Prince Madog ship.

The Welsh Institute of Natural Resources (WINR), which incorporates the Biocomposities Centre, the Centre for Advanced Research into Agricultural Development (CARIAD), and the Centre for Applied Marine Science (CAMS), are major contributors to knowledge transfer and enterprise in the College.

The College is also associated with the Environment Centre Wales, a research institute for the integration of environmental sciences which is a partnership venture between Bangor University and the Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH).

The Centre is housed in a state-of-the-art building using energy efficiency measures, natural light and renewable energy technologies. The building has an international reputation as an exemplar building of sustainable design and construction, and is one of only three buildings worldwide to have received a commendation for its sustainable credentials.

Our Graduate School provides dedicated support to graduate students and offers the finest environment for personal and academic development for students across disciplines and from different backgrounds and countries.

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“The modules I have taken, especially Genomes with Molecular Genetics, work in harmony with my medical qualifications and have allowed me to appreciate the pathogenesis of medical illnesses more deeply. The information is novel and fits accurately with the remit of the MSc. The success of the course is due primarily to a high commitment from the organisers and staff involved in teaching the degree.”

Dr. RASHA ALI AL-KHAFAJI, from Baghdad, studying the Medical Molecular Biology with Genetics MSc degree

“I chose to stay in Bangor because I love the city and surrounding area, and can’t fault the level of teaching and support provided by the academic Schools and the University.

Here at Bangor we also have a thriving postgraduate community, with its own forum and social club which brings together students from all academic schools. I would definitely encourage more postgraduates to study at Bangor!”

“With the Snowdonia Mountain range as a backdrop, and bordered by the Menai Strait, I chose to study at Bangor believing that this would be an ideal setting for environment based courses, and this was certainly the case. It also equipped me with practical skills such as using geographical information software and carrying out statistical analyses, which have enabled me to go on to work in the environmental field.”

LINDSAY PEPPIN, from Durham, studied a PhD in Wildlife Forensics

ANNA KAYE JONES, from Flintshire (North Wales) studying an MSc Conservation and Land Management

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School of Biological Sciences COURSE LIST:

STAFF PROFILE

About the School The School of Biological Sciences offers a range of postgraduate courses and we pride ourselves on our supportive and friendly atmosphere, the international standard of our research and the high quality of our teaching.

MSc • Medical Molecular Biology with Genetics • Molecular Biology with Biotechnology MRes • Ecology • Natural Sciences

The School is home to the North West Cancer Research Fund Institute, a centre of excellence for cancer research in Wales.

PhD/MPhil • Biological Sciences

Staff and facilities Some of our plant biology teaching and research is carried out in the Treborth Botanic Gardens situated along the Menai Strait which offers landscaped gardens, and a range of grassland and woodland habitats. The School is unusual in boasting its own Natural History Museum with a large collection of vertebrate and invertebrate specimens and an extensive marine aquarium, and a new freshwater aquarium.

Dr Anil Shirsat, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences

As a postgraduate you can study one-year taught Masters Degrees in Medical Molecular Biology with Genetics, and Molecular Biology with Biotechnology. One year MRes degrees, which differ from the taught Masters programmes by placing more emphasis on the research project, are available in Ecology and Natural Sciences.

His current research is mainly concerned with the role of the cell wall in plant defence – the wall is the first barrier which pathogens have to surmount and many defence pathways are initiated at the wall. In many cases, the composition of the wall alters in response to pathogen attack thereby creating a barrier to pathogen entry - he is investigating this using a transgenic approach. He is also interested in the public understanding of science and frequently gives lectures on different aspects of molecular biology. He is the organiser of the MSc in Molecular Biology with Biotechnology.

Overview of the academic areas Research degrees are available in subjects covering the full spectrum of our research expertise, including molecular ecology, fisheries genetics, molecular cancer studies, biodegradation and bioremediation, plant systems and technology, wetland biogeochemistry, neuroscience, animal energetics and ecophysiology.

We receive substantial financial support from the Research Councils, charities, government departments and British and overseas industry. Our diverse interests facilitate a wide exchange of interdisciplinary ideas and techniques and promote collaborations both within the School and with colleagues in institutions and industry.

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Dr Shirsat is a plant molecular biologist who completed his first degree in Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. After a brief interlude at the Cardiff University Medical School, he went on to pursue a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology at Durham University - his PhD dissertation was on the cloning and analysis of seed storage protein genes.

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382527 E-mail: postgrad.enquiries@sbs.bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/biology

School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography About the School The School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography has a worldclass reputation in research, with particular expertise in forest ecology and management; environmental and soil science; agricultural systems; agroforestry; biodiversity conservation; and tropical ecosystems. The School has the highest possible independent rating for the quality of teaching and the pastoral care we provide for our students has also been very highly rated.

Overview of academic areas The types of research undertaken vary widely across the environment and land use spectrum. Much of our research is undertaken overseas and we have projects in countries as far apart as Vietnam, Ethiopia and Peru. In addition to this field work, and our laboratories in Bangor, the School runs its own research centre 5 miles outside the city. This is the home to longterm experiments in forestry, agroforestry, animal breeding and ecology.

We offer a wide range of degree programmes including Masters programmes in Agroforestry; Conservation and Land Management; Environmental Forestry; Sustainable Tropical Forestry; and Sustainable Forestry and Nature Management. We also currently offer a taught postgraduate distance-learning programme. Research degrees are offered in a wide range of environmental subjects; such as Plant and Soil Science; Natural Resources Ecology, Conservation and Management; and Crop and Forest Science.

The research reputation of the School is evident in the number of research projects that it runs; we currently have more than 60 students undertaking research for their PhDs. Their work is undertaken over a three-year period, and results in the production of a thesis and several scientific papers. This concentration of postgraduates concerned with environmental and resource management topics makes the School a considerable force in terms of global research. We attract visiting scholars from every corner of the globe, who in turn contribute to a lively and invigorating atmosphere within the School.

Many of our programmes are professionally accredited, including our forestry-related programmes which are accredited by the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) and our Environmental programmes, which are accredited by the Institution of Environmental Sciences.

Our location provides unique opportunities for study in the disciplines we cover, particularly the natural environment, land use and conservation. The Snowdonia National Park is less than 20 minutes away and this provides a ‘living laboratory’ for much of our teaching and research.

STAFF PROFILE

Facilities The School has a wide range of modern facilities including a dedicated Research Station, which is home to long-term experiments in forestry, agroforestry, climate change, crop breeding and ecology.

The School hosts other major internationally and nationally recognised research centres such as the Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation, and the Centre for Integrated Research in the Rural Environment.

COURSE LIST: MSc • Agroforestry • Conservation and Land Management • Environmental Forestry • Sustainable Forest and Nature Management (Erasmus Mundus course) • Sustainable Tropical Forestry (Erasmus Mundus course) MSc by Distance Learning • Forestry MBA • Environmental Management* PhD/MPhil • Agricultural Systems • Agroforestry • Biodiversity Conservation • Environmental and Soil Science • Forest Ecology and Management • Renewable Materials • Tropical Ecosystems * new course - subject to validation

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382281 E-mail: senrgy@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/senrgy

Dr Hussain Omed, Course Director of MSc Conservation and Land Management and Overseas Liaison Officer, School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography Dr Hussain Omed is interested in Microbiological quality of poultry meat and the use of new approaches to minimise microbial contamination. He carried out intensive research looking at the effect of colour and intensity of lights on the behaviour, welfare and performance of broiler chickens. His research also includes some novel techniques in forage evaluation. He developed a novel in-vitro method, for forage evaluation in ruminant nutrition. This method is based on the use of faecal microorganisms instead of rumen liquor, and requires no use of invasive animals. This technique has made a significant contribution to animal welfare in the field of ruminant nutrition. In recognition of this work the RSPCA sponsored a conference held in Bangor in 1991 on Animal Welfare.

Dr. Omed is a Senior Lecturer and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship by Bangor University in 2004 in recognition of his high standards of teaching. He is Course Director for MSc Conservation & Land Management as well as MSc Sustainable Forest and Nature Management. He is Overseas Students Liaison Officer which involves regular formal and informal meetings with students, dealing with diverse student problems on an individual basis, in addition to helping students to settle in Bangor.

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School of Ocean Sciences About the School The School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor is one of the largest university marine science departments in Europe and a leading international research institution, which is ideally located on the shores of the Menai Strait in north Wales.

The School is home to The Centre for Marine Sciences (CAMS) which has very close links with relevant national and international agencies, governmental bodies and the user community. It also provides policy advice and has had a profound impact on applied shelf sea science through work on particle tracking, oil spill management, and aquaculture and marine conservation.

Overview of academic areas The School is an actively seagoing research institution with an international reputation for the quality of its research on shelf seas and shallow marine environments. Ocean margins, shelf seas, estuaries and the coastal zone are the key elements of the marine system with respect to climate change impacts (sea level, ecosystem functioning) and anthropogenic interactions.

Our activity accordingly encompasses blue skies, strategic and applied research, and active knowledge transfer. The School’s research culture is based on a multidisciplinary, earth systems, approach to the investigation of shallow marine systems and processes.

Facilities The School of Ocean Sciences has excellent support facilities for both teaching and research. These range from large, modern, well equipped teaching laboratories to ‘high-tech’ research laboratories; from a local area PC based computer network to powerful number crunching workstations used in numerical ocean modelling; from photographic and desktop publishing graphics systems to in-house electrical and mechanical workshops capable of designing and building state of the art oceanographic equipment; from a filtered seawater supply direct from the Menai Strait to tropical and cool water marine aquaria. Our strong seagoing capability is enabled by the RV Prince Madog, a state-of-the-art research vessel, and an inshore boat fleet.

All our postgraduate taught programmes have been accredited by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST), and as such facilitate your progression to Chartered status in later professional life. One-year taught Masters degrees and research degrees are also offered in a wide range of marine subjects.

COURSE LIST: MSc • Applied Marine Geoscience • Marine Biology • Marine Environmental Protection • Physical Oceanography PhD/MPhil • Ocean Sciences – Shelf Sea and Coastal Processes; Biogeochemistry and Palaeoceanography; Marine Ecosystems: Conservation and Resource Management

TO FIND OUT MORE: Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382842 E-mail: oss011@bangor.ac.uk www.sos.bangor.ac.uk

“I was really keen to study for my PhD at Bangor as I appreciated the friendly yet productive atmosphere at the School of Ocean Sciences. One of the best things about being a student in Bangor is the support offered to Postgraduates. We’re offered skills training and given access to specialist equipment and academic experts and have the opportunity to collaborate on our work. The general camaraderie within research groups is also a plus.”

GARETH JOHNSON, from Colchester, studying a PhD in Facilitation & Biodiversity in the Marine Benthos

“The MSc in Physical Oceanography at Bangor University, which has received NERC funding since 1965, meets a critical skills need in the UK for modellers and numerate environmental scientists.”

NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, July 2011

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STAFF PROFILE Dr John Turner, Senior Lecturer, School of Ocean Sciences John Turner (seen above) from the School of Ocean Sciences is working on coral reefs (especially remote ones), and coastal zone management and protection. He teaches tropical marine ecology and conservation and runs the MSc course in Marine Environmental Protection. His current projects revolve around enhancing marine protected areas in the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean, and the world’s largest marine protected area in the British Indian Ocean Territory. His interests range from micro-algae in symbiosis with corals, through to Environmental Impact Assessment.

Current PhD students work on shark cleaning behaviour; stingray ecology; acoustic methods of dolphin monitoring in Special Areas of Conservation; reef resilience and marine protected areas; community based marine protected areas; coral bleaching, and coral reef ecology; and John supervises many MSc projects overseas. John has undertaken largescale biological surveys for the United Nations Development Programme on the sustainable use of biodiversity of Socotra Archipelago, and on the coastal ecosystems of the Andaman Islands, and Environmental Impact Assessments for major industrial developments such as a Liquid Natural Gas terminal in Oman, and effluent treatment in Mauritius. He leads the UNESCO Network in Marine Biology in East Africa, and is experienced in scientific diving and underwater surveys, especially in remote places.

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COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES The College of Health and Behavioural Sciences is the largest in the University. It has formal links with the local NHS trust enabling an integrated approach to developing research, training, medical and healthcare education in north Wales.

The College consists of 4 academic Schools and 2 research institutes: Academic Schools: • School of Psychology • School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences • School of Healthcare Sciences • School of Medical Sciences Research Institutes: • Institute of Medical and Social Care • North Wales Clinical School Although each School/Institute preserves its specific identity and subject integrity, the College fosters inter-school collaboration and shared academic goals and practices. Our teaching is informed by world-class collaborative research. This means that students have the opportunity to study with academics who are at the cutting edge of their academic disciplines, whether that is elite sports performance, nurse training or fMRI brain imaging.

Our research covers a broad range of health, biomedical, sports, exercise and performance science and behavioural science related areas. The quality and depth of the College's research has been demonstrated with its excellent set of results from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Over 70 members of staff from the College were submitted to the Exercise. The panels noted internationally excellent and indeed world-leading research activity in the three units of assessment in which entries were made (Health Services Research, Psychology, and Sports-Related Studies).

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The College has sought to build on its long history in health and behavioural science related research with expertise spanning ageing and dementia, health services and management, chronic disease, brain disorder rehabilitation, cognitive and development psychology, randomised health trials, high performance physiology and psychology, and economic evaluation of public health and pharmacological initiatives. The College's commitment to world-class, scientifically rigorous research is confirmed by its substantial investment in laboratories and equipment in biochemistry, hydrodensitometry, cell biology, perceptual motor testing and fMRI brain imaging. Our research ethos is to advance both basic and applied science, challenge current thinking in the health and behavioural science domains while informing the College’s teaching and learning provision.

There are a large number of specific research units, centres and institutes either within the College, or with close associations to it (or members of its staff), including those listed below: • Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME) • Centre for Experimental Consumer Psychology • Centre for Health-Related Research (CHeRR) • Centre for Mental Health Service Development • Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice • Daycare Nursery and Centre for Child Development: Tir Na n-Og • Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) • Dyslexia Unit • Bangor Imaging Unit • ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice • Food and Activity Research Unit • IMSCaR - Institute of Medical and Social Care Research • Incredible Years Wales Centre • Institute For The Psychology of Elite Performance • Institute of Rehabilitation • North Wales Organisation for Randomised Trials in Health (NWORTH) • North Wales Section of Psychological Medicine (NWSPM) • Wales Centre for Behaviour Analysis • Wolfson Centre for Clinical and Cognitive Neurosciences

Modern Resources and Facilities – as a student you will have access to all the learning resources you will need for success in your studies DID YOU KNOW...

The Bangor University academics behind the highly successful Food Dudes programme, which encourages healthy eating choices in young children and their families, are to receive an award for the way that they have adapted their scientific knowledge for a very practical purpose.

The Award recognises the development and dissemination of the Food Dudes programme. It is awarded to an individual or individuals in the public or private sector who address socially significant problems using methods directly linked to behavioural analysis or that effectively incorporate behavioural principles.

Professor Fergus Lowe and Dr Pauline Horne of Bangor University’s School of Psychology are to receive the Scientific Translation Award (Technology Transfer) from the Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Analysis (SABA) at their Annual Convention in Seattle in the USA in May 2012.

“At a time when obesity rates around the world are trending upwards and children are deprived of important nutrients found in fruit and vegetables, SABA is proud to recognise the achievements of the Food Dudes programme in improving the diets of children in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sicily, and the US. Your integration of behavioural principles through the many components of Food Dudes interventions is a model for others wishing to impact societally important behaviour,” said Maria Malott Secretary of the Society for the Advancement of Behaviour Analysis.

“The Food Dudes project is gaining global recognition for the very successful way that it can improve eating habits. As well as winning a World Health Organisation Award for its application in Ireland and winning the UK Chief Medical Officer’s Gold Medal Award, the Food Dudes programme has been adopted by the European Commission to illustrate how governments in Europe can tackle obesity. This is a project from Bangor University that can make a real impact on the health of people in those societies worldwide that are now faced with such a major obesity challenge. I’m very pleased that the academics involved are receiving the recognition of their professional peers for their contribution,” said Prof John G. Hughes, ViceChancellor of Bangor University.

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School of Healthcare Sciences About the School The School of Healthcare Sciences is a friendly and supportive place to study. We pride ourselves on supporting students in an environment that establishes and maintains a high standard of quality and excellence in teaching and learning as well as research.

Our novel research focus on knowledge production, synthesis, and utilisation is directed at generating high quality evidence and developing better understanding of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions, services and organisations.

We are also developing and applying novel research methods to synthesise what is known, and to gain better understanding of how and why evidence or knowledge do or do not get used in practice. Within this overall research focus we have high level international expertise in the areas of disabled children, older people, stroke, language and cultural sensitivity, knowledge translation theory, practice and evaluation methods.

Staff and facilities Staff are drawn from a variety of professional backgrounds and we are committed to our central aim of helping students to achieve the knowledge and skills required for academic and clinical practice delivery.

We have an extensive collection of books and journals and many of the journals and a range of books are available online in fulltext format. We also have databases, videos and CDs; micro material and a web-based catalogue to access e-books, e-journals, past exam papers, subject guides and other learning resources. The School also offers a computer room for student use.

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Overview of academic areas Our MSc programmes have been developed in collaboration with health and social care organisations in the UK, and in response to our experience and work internationally.

Our courses are multidisciplinary and interprofessional, enabling students to draw on a range of clinical and service-oriented experiences.

The post registration pathways particularly were created to address current targets in continuing professional development - but with flexible elements to allow students to adapt assessment work to their own needs.

Full-time students can complete within 18 months, part-time students typically take 3 years, while associate students may take up to five years to complete their studies.

Many programmes comprise both theory and practice elements; these are designed to respond to the changes brought about by research, changes in society, health and social care needs.

The School recognises and values postgraduate students who come to study with pre-existing knowledge, skills, experience, values and beliefs, and these will be taken as a starting point for development. We offer a range of postgraduate pathways which include both pre-registration and post-registration programmes i.e. pathways that lead to a professional qualification or further professional development for students who already hold a professional qualification.

The School has developed a multidisciplinary Masters level programme for post registration, postgraduate health and social care professionals and others as well as some pre-registration, postgraduate provision. The majority of modules and pathways are available on a part-time or full-time basis to meet the needs of a variety of students pursuing a higher degree and are delivered flexibly whenever possible. A blended learning approach has been adopted which entails learning in a variety of environments such as in the classroom, practice settings and virtual learning. There is a strong emphasis on continuing professional development for students; supported by a range of high quality teaching and research activities for postgraduate students.

COURSE LIST: PgDip • Occupational Therapy # MSc/PgDip/PgCert • Advanced Clinical Practice # • Health and Social Care Leadership • Health Science # • Public Health and Health Promotion • Risk Management in Health and Social Care MRes/PgCert • Implementing Evidence in Health & Social Care # PhD/MPhil • Health Studies/Health Science, Nursing, Midwifery, Radiography and Allied Health Professions # # international students are advised to contact the School before applying

CONTACT DETAILS: School of Healthcare Sciences Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383123 E-mail: admissions.health@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/healthcaresciences

DID YOU KNOW...

An innovative e-learning course developed at the School of Healthcare Sciences is assisting trained nurses and wound-care specialist nurses across Wales to achieve Wales’ unique national standards of competence for woundcare. This is an exciting development by the School together with the University’s IT & Computing Services department which will lead the way for further elearning opportunities at the School.

School of Medical Sciences About the School The School of Medical Sciences is the focus for medical education and research at Bangor University. The School offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, short courses for healthcare and allied professionals as well as a range of medical research opportunities.

The School is a partner in the North Wales Clinical School, a partnership between the Higher Education Institutions which operate in north Wales and the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The North Wales Clinical School provides a collaborative environment for medical education and research within north Wales.

We are committed to delivering a range of courses for postgraduate study appropriate for health care and allied professions. The range of education/training covers opportunities from short courses, through Postgraduate Certificates and Diplomas to Masters and PhD level study. Our programmes have been developed in response to our experience and work with clinical and health professionals both locally, nationally and internationally.

STAFF PROFILE

Staff We employ a number of clinical and nonclinical academic staff who are actively involved in research which aligns with national and local healthcare priorities, particularly in the areas of ageing, chronic disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental health. Our academic staff have a wealth of experience in teaching medical and non-medical undergraduate and postgraduate students. The School academics teach in both the University and health service settings.

Overview of academic areas Bangor University has a long history of excellence in health research. The School of Medical Sciences is building on these strengths and is rapidly expanding the number and scope of its research active staff. The School has expertise across a wide range of academic and clinical areas particularly in the areas of ageing, chronic disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental health. The School is also building on the biomedical research strengths of Bangor University and, in collaboration with other academic departments, is actively developing complementary programmes of translational and clinical research in line with national and local healthcare priorities.

COURSE LIST: PgCert • Clinical and Functional Brain Imaging • Professional and Clinical Education MSc/PgDip/PgCert • Behavioural Neurology and Neuropsychiatry MRes • Medical Sciences PhD/MPhil • Research Studentships

The School has been successful in grant capture which promotes clinical research within north Wales in partnership with clinicians within the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

We provide a range of short courses as well as award bearing courses. The School offers postgraduate opportunities in medical education and research and is working with the Bangor University Business School to develop management and leadership courses for healthcare and allied professionals.

CONTACT DETAILS: School of Medical Sciences Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383244 E-mail: medsciences@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/sms

Dr John M. Delieu, Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences Dr John M. Delieu is currently a lecturer in Anatomy in the School of Medical Sciences, and the Universities’ Designated Individual (for the Human Tissue Act). He is also an Anatomist within the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Shropshire; visiting lecturer of Anatomy at Keele University; Associate Clinical Teacher for Cardiff Medical School; Council Member of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists.

He qualified initially as a nurse and worked within the domains of the elderly, paediatrics and as a charge nurse in sexually transmitted diseases.

At a later date, he changed direction and studied Anatomy and Cell Biology at The University of Sheffield going on to gain a PhD. “I think what attracted me to north Wales was the rural setting and the friendliness. I still have a genuine buzz when I come to work. In a way it is a hobby.”

Dr Delieu’s is involved in on-going collaborative research looking at induced oxidative stress on cells that have been treated with antipsychotic medication. Also he is collaborating in the development of virtual reality environments and prototyping for anatomy teaching.

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School of Psychology About the School As a postgraduate in Psychology, you will be working with internationally renowned researchers and making use of superb research facilities. The quality of the School of Psychology's teaching is highly regarded and has been officially recognised as ‘Excellent’ in the latest government Teaching Quality Assessment. Our academic members of staff not only teach well, but also produce research of the highest quality, with influences in the public sector (especially Health and Clinical activities) as well as in industry and the academic world.

The School is rated as being in the top 7 UK psychology departments for research power; with more than double the national average of ‘World Leading’ research output and 65% of the total departmental research output being rated in the top two categories of the most recent Research Assessment Exercise.

Staff and facilities These centres, as well as being in the vanguard of academic research in these fields, offer students unique opportunities for project work covering important theoretical and practical elements. Within these research centres staff and students have access to a large number of specialist research labs including a 3T MRI scanner, TMS Labs, ERP, faraday cages, a brain anatomy laboratory, eye tracking facilities and an on-site nursery with observation facilities as well as dozens of computer based testing laboratories.

The School of Psychology at Bangor is one of the country's leading Psychology departments and has a thriving postgraduate community of over 200 Masters and more than 80 PhD students. It is a truly international department with staff and students drawn from over 20 countries from across the world.

Overview of academic areas The School’s postgraduate programmes cover a number of specialist areas that reflect the mix of research expertise within the department. The department has over 50 Academic Faculty members, many of whom are world leading or internationally renowned experts in their fields. The research areas of staff can be drawn together in the following broad categories: • Cognitive Neuroscience • Language, Aging and Dementia • Clinical and Health • Behaviour Change • Experimental Consumer Psychology

Bangor Psychology’s ranking as an elite department is underlined by its listing in the CHE European Excellence Ranking. Of these Bangor's Psychology department was placed in joint third overall (second in the UK) in terms of the number of stars it achieved based on the institutional survey and was also placed in the top ten based on the CHE pre-selection criteria index. Stars are awarded to departments who do particularly well in certain areas and the fact that Bangor has scored so highly in terms of stars awarded is a clear demonstration of the department's overall quality and the international esteem in which its staff and students are held.

Overall the School is one of the largest in the UK in terms of student numbers and offers students a combination of quantity and quality simply not available elsewhere.

As well as high academic standards the School delivers high standards of student support and guidance and prides itself on the fact that its friendly environment is often identified as a major strength. There are a number of academic and social student societies within the department which add a great deal to the overall student experience.

The School forms a large part of the College of Health & Behavioural Sciences, a College which boasts a very strong research and teaching ethos which translates into excellent course provision.

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Postgraduate students at Bangor study under the guidance of academics with international reputations and have access to research facilities that exceed those available in most other departments, either in the UK or internationally.

The School boasts a number of prestigious research centres, including: • The Wolfson Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience • The Bangor Imaging Unit • The Centre for Experimental Consumer Psychology • Centre for Mental Health • Centre for Research on Bilingualism • Miles Dyslexia Centre • Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice

COURSE LIST: PgCert • Clinical and Functional Brain Imaging (part-time) MSc/PgDip/PgCert • Applied Behaviour Analysis • Behavioural Neurology and Neuropsychiatry MA • Psychology MSc • Foundations of Clinical Neuropsychology • Foundations of Clinical Psychology • Neuroimaging • Psychological Research MA/MSc • Consumer Psychology with Business • Mindfulness-based Approaches MRes/PgCert • Psychology PhD • Psychology DClinPsy • Clinical Psychology

CONTACT DETAILS: School of Psychology Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382629 E-mail: psychology@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/psychology

STAFF PROFILE Prof Steve Tipper, Professor of Cognitive Science, School of Psychology Professor Steve Tipper’s major research interests are in the mechanisms that link visual perception with action, where he has published over 120 articles receiving a total citation count of over 6000. He has received the President’s Award from the British Psychological Society for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge and more recently the Experimental Psychology Society Mid-Career Award. He’s also received the rare honour of being elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2010 he was elected as a founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

“Research facilities at Bangor are world-class. We posses cutting-edge technology and equipment which is based in laboratories led by world-leading researchers. The School is renowned for being a friendly and vibrant place to undertake further training.”

School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences

The scientific integrity of our academics (all of whom are research active) is regularly recognised by research accreditation exercises. The most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirmed our now well-established reputation for the highest quality research, with 80% of our work being judged as either world-leading or at an international level. This placed us as one of the top ten Sport Science Schools in the UK. Our excellence in research feeds directly into our postgraduate degree programmes, since students are taught by, and work with, the researchers who drive the knowledge base in the subject areas they study.

As a School we value the overall experience of our students highly and pride ourselves on having a caring and student centred approach. We aim to provide a challenging and enjoyable learning environment which is welcoming and supportive of all our students. The School provides a close knit, friendly community and was the only Sport Science School in the UK to be judged ’Exemplary’ for its student support when last evaluated.

Facilities Our students are also encouraged to take advantage of the unique environment Bangor offers – a reputable academic institution located between Snowdonia and the sea – one of the prime university locations in Britain for pursuing sport and a range of outdoor activities.

The School is based in a beautiful Grade II listed building on the banks of the Menai Strait and is well resourced for the scientific study of sport, health and exercise. We have an extensive range of laboratories and state-of-the-art equipment for sport and exercise physiology, psychology, motor control and learning and motion analysis.

For example: • an environmental chamber; • a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry scanner; • high speed motion capture for eye and limb movement; • a suite of psychomotor experimental rooms; • a psychological intervention and observation lab; • cell biology and biochemistry labs.

Overview of academic areas The School offers a full range of taught sport, health and exercise science postgraduate degrees. Which degree you choose will depend on your specific interests. The MSc programmes have been designed to be flexible and relevant to the student's individual needs and interests, with a strong emphasis on the application of theory to professional practice. MRes degrees are aimed at students who wish to gain more extensive training in research in sport, health and exercise sciences. And for those wishing to pursue an entirely research-based degree, MPhil and PhD programmes are available.

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Students undertaking any programme of postgraduate study (MSc, MRes or PhD/MPhil) may have the opportunity to prepare for the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) supervisory experience training, which is normally a pre-requisite of the Association's professional accreditation.

PhD/MPhil • Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences

STAFF PROFILE

About the School The School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences (SSHES) has been providing high calibre MSc programmes since 2000. Since then we have attracted approximately 45 students per year from home and abroad, including students from countries as far apart as the USA, Singapore, Bahrain, Malaysia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

MSc • Applied Sport and Exercise Physiology • Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology • Applied Sport Science • Applied Sport Science and Outdoor Activities • Exercise Rehabilitation • Sport and Exercise Psychology (BPS Accredited) MRes/PgCert • Sport and Exercise Physiology • Sport and Exercise Psychology • Sport and Exercise Science

CONTACT DETAILS: School of Sport, Health & Exercise Science Tel: +44 (0) 1248 388256 E-mail: Taught courses: mscsport@bangor.ac.uk Research courses: shesphds@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/sport

Dr Tim Woodman, Head of School (Research), Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology, School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences Dr Tim Woodman’s areas of research interest are threefold: the relationship between stress and performance in sport; personality and how it relates to various aspects of sport and exercise, including emotions and coping with stress; risk-taking, with particular interest in why people engage in risk-taking sports.

He collaborates with researchers from Europe and America and presents at conferences worldwide. MSc students doing a project with any member of staff at Bangor, including Tim, can expect their work to reach publishable standard, provided they put in the work of course!

Tim has other passions in life; he is a keen mountaineer and travels regularly to the Alps to practice more difficult climbs than are on offer in Snowdonia. Many of his colleagues prefer to use the surrounding countryside for sailing/surfing or mountain biking. Although Tim enjoys sailing off the coast of Bangor, he finds the downhill parts of mountain biking too scary! Tim also loves ski mountaineering and yoga.

Tim says about the School: “In essence, Bangor is one of the best places to study for a Masters in Sport and Exercise Sciences in the UK. It is an extremely friendly School and postgraduates are treated like staff for many of the decisions that are made within the School.”

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“I chose to study my PhD at Bangor as I saw that a favourite Professor of mine from my first degree had a PhD studentship. His research themes appealed to me more than any other scientific topic and gave me the enthusiasm to peruse an MSc in the first place.

My supervisors, my advisory council, my School managers and financers have all been extremely helpful. I have the opportunity to guide projects and have my say in what/why/how the things we see happen. Besides that, the course is pretty much exactly what I wanted to do, a perfect combination of biology and psychology.

So far, my first publication has been by far the number one experience. Although, I have lots of new exciting data to write up at the moment…”

TOM LANCASTER, from Bristol, studying a PhD in Medical Sciences

“The School of Psychology is highly ranked among the universities in the UK. Areas of research in the School such as Clinical Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science and Consumer Psychology give me a broad range of choices when it comes to research focus, which is so beneficial and there is so much to learn from different expertise.

If you're interested in Psychology, Bangor can provide you with incredible experiences and you'll be exposed to various research opportunities to work with different well known experts in their field. The academic system here is designed to not only make you pass your course but allows you to excel in what you do. Think Psychology, think Bangor!”

PO LING, from Malaysia, studying an MSc in Foundation of Clinical Neuropsychology

“I am originally from Dorset and came to study Sports Science (Outdoor Activities) at Bangor in 2007. I fell in love with the place after coming to an open day as the close knit, friendly atmosphere really appealed to me. The combination of a top Sport Science School and the beautiful surroundings made it the perfect choice for me. I am a keen climber and cyclist and the perfect playground is right on my doorstep!

Having becoming familiar with the people and places I chose to stay in Bangor to do my postgraduate degree. The broad range of modules on the applied physiology course suited my needs at the time, as I did not yet know whether I wanted to go into performance or clinical physiology.

I have enjoyed the MSc course for the same reasons as during my undergraduate degree. While there is a high level of expectation for good quality work, the support available to help you achieve this is unbeatable. There is a close relationship between students and staff, which makes them approachable and understanding.

You must be prepared to work extremely hard for a whole year, though as is the rule in Bangor, you must make time to play hard too!”

CHARLOTTE JELLEYMAN, from Dorset, studying an MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Physiology

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More than thirty of this year’s Consumer Psychology and Business Masters students have been conducting semester-long research projects in the local community. As part of Dr James Intriligator’s ‘applied consumer psychology’ module, students have been investigating a range of psychological issues related to consumer activity. For example, one team of students worked with a local health food store to understand what motivates people to shop there, the behaviour of nonshoppers, and how do people navigate and explore their online store. Other teams worked with the University’s Bar Uno Café Bar to study space and price perception and some assisted local organisations including the National Trust owned Penrhyn Castle and the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation.

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Institute of Medical and Social Care Research About the Institute The Institute of Medical and Social Care Research (IMSCaR) was founded in 1997, providing a focus for the University's research in health and social care.

IMSCaR aims to undertake international quality research, with an increasing grant capture from research councils, of local and national benefit to patients and their professional and informal carers. We seek to do so through work characterised by scientific rigour, practical relevance, and collaboration between academic institutions and health and social care providers.

IMSCaR undertakes multi-disciplinary research, bringing together a staff of health economists, psychologists and statisticians; in collaboration with a wide range of clinical specialties, spanning oncology, pharmacy, rheumatology and public health.

Overview of academic areas IMSCaR’s main research areas are in health economics and medicines evaluation; ageing and dementia care; medical statistics and trials methodology. Students undertake their MScs and PhDs on a range of topics, at present these span ageing and dementia care, parenting programmes for disadvantaged families, pharmacoeconomics, and economics of disability, cancer care and pay for performance in the NHS. Students are encouraged to undertake both method-ological and applied research in producing their thesis.

Staff and facilities IMSCaR is a dedicated research institute with over 50 research staff and postgraduate research students in 3 distinct but interlinked research centres - the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME); the Dementia Services Development Centre; and the North Wales Organisation for Randomised Trials in Health (NWORTH) which is Bangor’s Clinical Trials Unit.

Though staff contribute to taught MSc modules across the College of Health and Behavioural Sciences, IMSCaR’s focus is on developing its doctoral research programme. This means that our postgraduate research students, many of whom are externally funded by the MRC, NISCHR, and charities such as Tenovus, enjoy full involvement in the Institute’s research life, from sharing offices with research staff, journal clubs, providing support to ongoing research projects and with opportunities to disseminate their PhD findings at national and international conferences. Where possible, students are offered an opportunity to link into an ongoing study or clinical trial, providing an opportunity for original research contribution, while benefiting from the wider research team on matters such as ethics, data protection, analysis and manuscript preparation.

IMSCaR follows a ‘four publication’ model for PhD thesis, thereby giving prospective post doctorates a head start having made a material contribution to the outputs of the Institute. We also aim to offer students an opportunity for post doctoral employment.

From time to time, studentships are advertised, but enquiries from potential self-funding students are also welcome.

COURSE LIST: MSc by Research • Ageing and Dementia Studies • Health Economics • Health Services Research PhD/MPhil • Ageing and Dementia Studies • Health Economics • Health Services Research

CONTACT DETAILS: Institute of Medical & Social Care Research Tel: +44 (0) 1248 388771 E-mail: imscar@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/imscar

STAFF PROFILE Prof Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Institute for Medical and Social Care Research Rhiannon Tudor Edwards is Professor of Health Economics and Co- Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation at Bangor University. She is a graduate of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, University of Calgary, Canada, and the University of York where she undertook her doctoral research on NHS waiting lists as a non-price rationing mechanism in public health care.

Rhiannon and colleagues at Bangor lead the economic evaluation of a range of trials in Dementia Care, Parenting, and the All Wales GP Exercise Referral Programme, and Rhiannon has published collaboratively a range of peer reviewed articles, reports and book chapters on health economics methodology, cost-effectiveness studies, political devolution and health policy, and health economics in medical education. She reviews for a range of health economics and health services research journals, works closely with Public Health Wales and is an examiner for the UK Faculty of Public Health. She is also an active member of the UK Health Economists Study Group and Welsh Health Economics Study Group.

Rhiannon is registered blind, has been a guide dog owner for 8 years and has a growing interest in the application of health economics to technologies/services to support people living with disability. She is currently part of an international collaboration looking at low vision service models.

In Bangor she is IMSCaR’s Director of Postgraduate Studies. Rhiannon also supervises PhD students, and teaches Health Economics and Public Health Economics at postgraduate level.

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COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES The College of Physical and Applied Sciences can trace its roots back to the foundation of the University in 1884. It has had a long tradition of excellence in research and teaching and employs many academics who are leaders in their fields. The College comprises three constituent schools, the School of Chemistry, the School of Computer Science and the School of Electronic Engineering.

The College is one of the most successful at the University in the quality of its research outputs. Students who study with us are able to receive individual attention for the duration of their time with us. The research quality of the College was confirmed in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) which saw all three Schools - Chemistry, Computer Science and Electronic Engineering - improve their position both nationally and locally. Electronic Engineering was ranked equal second in the UK. All Schools enjoy valuable and extensive collaborations both within the UK and internationally as evidenced from the high proportion of publications that include co-authors from other UK and international institutions and organisations. Such interactions and collaborations, when added to the expertise and facilities within the College, provide a unique resource for regional businesses and employment opportunities for students.

The strategic directions of the College are clear and map well onto the four stated pillars of the Government Higher Education strategy: • Digital Economy (ICT) • Low Carbon • Economy, Health and Biosciences • Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing At the School of Chemistry, activity is grouped under three theme headings: Materials Chemistry, Chemistry at the Life Science Interface, and Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. However, the boundaries between these groupings are diffused with several collaborations occurring both within the School and further afield. Computer Science has seen rapid expansion in its Visualisation and Medical Graphics activities. The internationally recognised work on Pattern Recognition together with growing activity in Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents forms a second key theme. Systems Modelling, the third theme in Computer Science, provides opportunities for interaction with a number of local industries and with colleagues in the School of Electronic Engineering where the key themes are Optoelectronics and Organic Electronics with continuing activity in Laser Micromachining.

Students who study at the College of Physical and Applied Sciences are assured that their work will contribute to and be involved with current research, and many of our students have papers published during their time at Bangor.

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School of Chemistry About the School Chemistry at Bangor has a distinguished history stretching back over 125 years and Chemistry was one of the four founding departments of the University in 1884. Over this period the highest standards in teaching coupled with a strong commitment to research have been the School’s mission.

The School of Chemistry combines a traditional approach with a modern curriculum and teaching methods. The result is a modern School which offers a range of solid-based postgraduate degree courses which have been highly rated by our external examiners.

The School has an active postgraduate programme with students from the UK and from many different countries around the world. Research work in the School is of the highest quality and creativity spanning the traditional areas of organic, inorganic and physical chemistry grouped together under the three research themes of chemistry at the life science interface, materials chemistry and theoretical chemistry.

Staff and facilities The School has a full complement of academic staff working in modern teaching and research facilities. Postgraduate teaching and learning is enhanced by traditional lectures, seminars, computer sessions and laboratory classes with research work being the main emphasis.

We have well-equipped laboratories with industry standard instrumentation for students use, including NMR, GC, HPLC, MS, spectroscopy (FTIR and UV-vis), TGA, XRD and microscopy.

Overview of academic areas The School of Chemistry has a vibrant research community which includes MSc Analytical Chemistry, MSc Environmental Chemistry, MRes, MPhil and PhD students all working under the broad School research themes of materials chemistry, chemistry at the life science interface and theoretical chemistry. We also collaborate with colleagues in the Schools of Biological Sciences and Environment, Natural Resources and Geography in environmental science.

Specific research interests include polymer chemistry, catalysis, computational modelling, sensors for drugs and explosives, photovoltaics, green chemistry and synthetic chemistry. We have many links with both industrial and academic partners around the world, contributing to the School's international reputation for excellence.

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The School of Chemistry has been honoured with a Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Landmark Award. This is the first for Bangor, and the first of its kind for Wales.

MSc/PgDip • Analytical Chemistry • Environmental Chemistry

The RSC Chemical Landmark Plaque is in recognition of both Professor Ted Hughes’ critical research in Physical Organic Chemistry and the 125 years of excellence in Chemistry at Bangor.

MRes • Chemistry PhD/MPhil • Chemistry

Professor Hughes was Head of the School of Chemistry from 1943-8. His research contributed to a greater understanding of organic reaction mechanisms which now underpin university chemistry curricula worldwide.

The long-standing relationship forged between the RSC and the School of Chemistry has been extremely important, benefitting all aspects of Chemistry from teaching and research to school events and public lectures. Many of the RSC Local Section officers and Committee members are Bangor Chemistry staff and students. Serving on the RSC committee has also proved invaluable for many students. The RSC has not only enriched the student experience here at Bangor but has helped to excite generations of school children about science.

CONTACT DETAILS: School of Chemistry Tel: + 44 (0) 1248 382375 E-mail: chemistry@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/chemistry

School of Computer Science About the School The School of Computer Science is a young and lively community of academic staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students and postdoctoral research workers.

Computer Science at Bangor is ideally placed to provide the training required for a career in IT in the 21st century. Our interactions with a wide range of companies ensure our degree courses reflect current trends and recent developments in their subjects.

Facilities The School has a strong and vibrant postgraduate programme and our students have dedicated laboratories in which to work.

The School is well equipped with computer rooms and other specialist equipment (such as a High Performance Visualisation and Medical Graphics laboratory) that are used to support and reinforce information and concepts presented during lectures and seminars.

In addition, we aim to ensure that our students use industry-standard hardware and software from the beginning of their studies and we continue to invest in new computer systems and up-to-date software to support our teaching.

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An innovative cross-disciplinary approach by scientists at the School of Computer Science and the School of Psychology received over £500,000 in funding from two of the UK’s main funding bodies, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils and the Economic and Social Research Council.

MSc • Computer Systems • Computing and Internet Systems

The ability to create artificial vision systems as complex as our own human vision has challenged robotics experts for decades. Artificial vision systems able to recognise objects and function beyond a stable, controlled environment would have a range of applications. Working together, the cross-disciplinary project aims to work out the highly complex neural processes involved in simple tasks such as recognising objects, despite variations such as position, light and shadow.

Dr Ik Soo Lim from the School of Computer Sciences explained - “Our input involved translating data from one discipline into the language of another.

We will be converting the data being collected in the psychologists’ vision laboratories into computational models that will underpin the development of more complex artificial visual systems.”

MRes • Advanced Visualisation, Virtual Environments and Computer Animation PhD/MPhil • Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents • Communication Networks and Protocols • Medical Visualisation and Simulation • Pattern Recognition/Classifiers

CONTACT DETAILS: School of Computer Science Tel: + 44 (0) 1248 382686 E-mail: cs-pg-admissions@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/cs

The School’s strong focus on postgraduate teaching and research means that all our students are involved with current research themes from the outset, working closely with their personal tutors on the latest research.

The School also offers postgraduate degrees for students who have not studied the subject before. This specialist MSc is open to anyone who has an undergraduate degree and equips students with all the IT skills and knowledge required when running or working in a business.

Overview of academic areas Research expertise in the School spans computer graphics, visualization, knowledge discovery, and communications.

Expertise in these areas is incorporated into our teaching activities, giving students direct access to the latest Computer Science research.

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Students have access to state-of-the-art research equipment, such as the nitrogen glove box facility (seen here) attached to the Class 1000 clean room, for handling organic devices which cannot be exposed to oxygen.

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School of Electronic Engineering About the School The School of Electronic Engineering is at the forefront of education and research in electronics today and conducts worldleading research in optoelectronics, optical communications, organic electronics and bioelectronics. In the most recent Government Research Assessment Exercise the School was ranked 2nd in the UK. Staff and facilities Since our staff work with companies through joint research projects, knowledge transfer partnerships and as consultants, students can be sure that they are taught by practising professional engineers and scientists.

The School of Electronic Engineering has excellent facilities for postgraduate students, including a dedicated PC lab for MSc students and access to cutting edge laboratory equipment, from clean rooms to optical communications testbeds. Students can be sure that they will have access to relevant equipment and experimental techniques, and will carry out their project work in the School’s well equipped research laboratories.

Overview of academic areas Optoelectronics research focuses on understanding the physics of semiconductor optoelectronic devices, with a particular emphasis on the dynamics of optoelectronic systems and on optical chaos synchronisation and chaos communications.

The Organic Electronics researchers examine how organic chemicals, with desirable electronic properties, can be manufactured into electronic devices to compete with silicon, with a particular emphasis on organic photovoltaic materials and low-cost plastic electronics.

The interaction between electronic and electrical phenomena and biological samples forms the focus of bioelectronic research at the school. Biological measuring instruments can be made by utilising the interplay of cells and miniaturised, structured electric fields, to build an entire ‘lab on a chip’.

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COURSE LIST: MSc • Broadband and Optical Communications • Electronic Engineering • Nanotechnology and Microfabrication

To celebrate our 125th anniversary in 2009, Bangor University launched a five year programme of postgraduate expansion. As part of this expansion the University offered a number of research scholarships and Sanjay Priyadarshi, from India, was lucky enough to be awarded one of the research scholarships. He is currently studying for a PhD at the School of Electronic Engineering.

“I received the 125th Anniversary Research Scholarship which was a golden opportunity for me to follow my dream of studying further and now I am a PhD student at the School of Electronic Engineering. My area of research is Optical Chaos Communication and the Characteristics of Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers.

The School has excellent facilities and experienced staff that all have the incredible skill of motivating and preparing their students for the challenges of the new high-tech world.

Bangor University is among the best research-intensive universities in the UK. The University has excellent research facilities along with excellent teaching and learning resources and support.

MRes • Electronic Engineering • Electronic Engineering (Bio-Electronics) • Electronic Engineering (Micromachining) • Electronic Engineering (Microwave Devices) • Electronic Engineering (Nanotechnology) • Electronic Engineering (Optical Communications) • Electronic Engineering (Optoelectronics) • Electronic Engineering (Organic Electronics) • Electronic Engineering (Polymer Electronics) • Electronic Engineering (VLSI Design) PhD/MPhil • Electrical Materials Science • Laser Micromachining and Laboratoryon-a-Chip • Optical Communications • Optoelectronics • Organic Electronics

CONTACT DETAILS: School of Electronic Engineering Tel: + 44 (0) 1248 382686 E-mail: eng-pg-admissions@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/eng

The best thing about the School for me is the eco-friendly research environment and the fact that I can discuss my thoughts and ideas with the full involvement of the group. My colleagues also provide all the support that I need.

I am working on Optical Chaos, which has a potential application in secure communication. The semiconductor lasers are fascinating sources for secure optical communications using chaos. It is most relevant for today’s increasing requirement for secure data transmission at very fast speed.

After I complete my studies I hope to work with an optimistic group in a challenging research field and also to make the best use of my knowledge for the development of Science and Technology and to utilise it for the wellbeing of mankind.”

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GENERAL INDEX GENERAL INDEX Accommodation Academic Support Alumni Applying Archive of Traditional Welsh Music Bangor and Location Bangor Business School Bangor Business School London Centre Bangor Law School Bangor Miles Dyslexia Unit Careers and Employability Service Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies (CAWMS) Centre for Research in Early Music Centre for Galician Studies in Wales Centre for Medieval Studies College of Arts and Humanities College of Business, Social Sciences & Law College of Education and Lifelong Learning College of Health and Behavioural Sciences College of Natural Sciences College of Physical and Applied Sciences Disability Service Dyslexia ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory & Practice Electroacoustic Wales Education department English Language Requirements English Language Support Entry Requirements Facilities and Resources Finance Funding How to apply Information for International Students Information Technology Services International Centre for Sacred Music Studies (ICSMuS) International Research Excellence International Student Ambassadors Institutes of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) Institute of Medical and Social Care Research (IMSCaR) Library and Archives Service Lifelong Learning department

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Meet and Greet Service for International Students North and Mid-Wales Centre for Teacher Education Printing and Binding Unit Research Assessment Exercise Research Programmes Research Students’ Forum R.S. Thomas Centre Taught Courses Tuition Fees School of Biological Sciences School of Chemistry School of Computer Sciences School of Creative Studies and Media School of Electronic Engineering School of English School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography School of Healthcare Sciences School of History and Welsh History School of Linguistics and English Language School of Medical Sciences School of Modern Languages School of Music School of Ocean Sciences School of Psychology School of Social Sciences School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences School of Welsh Senior Postgraduate Tutors Social Life and Entertainment Sport and Fitness Student Support Services Students’ Union Student Welfare Adviser for International Students Study Options Study Skills Subject-Specialist Resources Support Support for International Students Welcome Week for International Students Welsh National Centre for Religious Education Who chooses to study at Bangor?

World Education Centre The University

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Celtic Archaeology (MA/Diploma) 36 Celtic Studies/Astudiaethau Celtaidd (PhD/MPhil) 41 Chartered Banker MBA 48, 52 Chemistry (MRes/PhD/MPhil) 70 Clinical and Functional Brain Imaging (PgCert) 63, 64 Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) 64 Cognitive Linguistics (MA) 38 Communication Networks and Protocols (PhD/MPhil) 71 Community Development (MA/Diploma/Certificate) 45 Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice (MA/Dip/Cert) 51 Composition/Electroacoustic Composition/Sonic Art (MA/MMus/Diploma) 40 Computer Systems (MSc) 71 Computing and Internet Systems (MSc) 71 Conservation and Land Management (MSc) 57 Consumer Psychology with Business (MA/MSc) 48, 64 Creative and Critical Writing, Film, Media, New Media, Journalism, Creative Studies, Drama, Professional Writing (PhD/MPhil & PhD/MPhil Practice-Led Research) 34 Creative Practice (MA/Diploma) 34 Creative Writing (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 35 Criminology and Criminal Justice (PhD/MPhil) 51 Criminology and Law (MA) 50, 51 Criminology and Sociology (MA/Dip/Cert) 51 Criminology, Criminal Justice, Social Policy, Sociology (MARes) 51 Criminology and Criminal Justice (PhD/MPhil) 51 Cymraeg/Welsh (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 41

SUBJECT INDEX Accounting and Finance (MSc) Accounting, Banking, Economics, Finance, Management Studies (PhD/MPhil) Advanced Clinical Practice (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) Advanced Social Work (MA/Dip/Cert) Advanced Visualization, Virtual Environments & Computer Animation (MRes) Ageing and Dementia Studies (MSc by Research/PhD/MPhil) Agricultural Systems (PhD/MPhil) Agroforestry (MSc/PhD/MPhil) Analytical Chemistry (MSc/PgDip) Applied Behaviour Analysis (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) Applied Marine Geoscience (MSc) Applied Sport and Exercise Physiology (MSc) Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology (MSc) Applied Sport Science (MSc) Applied Sport Science and Outdoor Activities (MSc) Archaeology (PhD/MPhil) Arthurian Literature (MA/Diploma) Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents (PhD/MPhil) Astudiaethau Celtaidd/Celtic Studies (PhD/MPhil) Banking and Finance (MA/MSc/MBA) Banking and Law (MA/MBA) Behavioural Neurology and Neuropsychiatry (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) Bilingualism (MA/PhD/MPhil) Biodiversity Conservation (PhD/MPhil) Biological Sciences (PhD/MPhil) Broadband and Optical Communications (MSc) Business and Marketing (MA) Business with Consumer Psychology (MA/MSc)

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Early Modern Literature (MA/Diploma) Ecology (MRes) Education (PhD/MPhil) Education Doctorate Programme (EdD) Education Studies (Full-time) (MA/MEd/ Diploma/Certificate) Education Studies (Part-time) (MA/MEd/ Diploma/Certificate) Electrical Materials Science (PhD/MPhil) Electronic Engineering (MSc/MRes) Electronic Engineering (Bio-Electronics) (MRes) Electronic Engineering (Micromachining) (MRes) Electronic Engineering (Microwave Devices) (MRes) Electronic Engineering (Nanotechnology) (MRes) Electronic Engineering (Optical Communications) (MRes) Electronic Engineering (Optoelectronics) (MRes) Electronic Engineering (Organic Electronics) (MRes) Electronic Engineering Polymer Electronics) (MRes) Electronic Engineering (VLSI Design) (MRes) English (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) Environmental and Soil Science (PhD/MPhil) Environmental Chemistry (MSc/PgDip) Environmental Forestry (MSc) Environmental Management* (MBA) European Languages and Cultures (MA) Executive LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy (LLM) Exercise Rehabilitation (MSc) Film and Media Studies (MA/Diploma) Finance (MA/MSc) Forest Ecology and Management (PhD/MPhil) Forestry (MSc by Distance Learning) Foundations of Clinical Neuropsychology (MSc) Foundations of Clinical Psychology (MSc) French (PhD/MPhil)

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German (PhD/MPhil)

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Health and Social Care Leadership (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) Health Economics (MSc by Research/PhD/MPhil) Health Science (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) Health Services Research (MSc by Research/PhD/MPhil) Health Studies/Health Science, Nursing, Midwifery, Radiography & Allied Health Professions (PhD/MPhil) Heritage (PhD/MPhil) History (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil)

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Implementing Evidence in Health & Social Care (MRes/PgCert) Information Management (MBA) International Banking and Development Finance (MSc) International Commercial and Business Law (LLM/Diploma) International Intellectual Property Law (LLM) International Law (LLM) International Law – specialising in European Law (LLM) International Law – specialising in Global Trade Law (LLM) International Law – specialising in International Criminal Law & International Human Rights Law (LLM) Islamic Banking and Finance (MA/MSc/MBA) Italian (PhD/MPhil)

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Language Policy and Planning (MA/Dip/Cert) Laser Micromachining and Laboratory-on-a-Chip (PhD/MPhil) Law (LLM Res/LLM/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) Law and Banking (LLM) Law and Criminology (LLM) Law and Management (MBA) Linguistics (MA/PhD/MPhil)

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Management (MBA) Management and Finance (MA/MSc) Marine Biology (MSc) Marine Environmental Protection (MSc) Marketing (MBA) Media Practice (MA/Diploma) Medical Molecular Biology with Genetics (MSc) Medical Sciences (MRes) Medical Visualization and Simulation (PhD/MPhil) Medieval and Early Modern Literature (MA/Diploma) Medieval Studies (MA/Diploma) Mindfulness-based Approaches (MA/MSc) Molecular Biology with Biotechnology (MSc) Music (including composition) (PhD/MPhil) Music (MA/Diploma) Music (Sacred Music Studies) (MA/Diploma)

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Nanotechnology and Microfabrication (MSc) Natural Sciences (MRes) Neuroimaging (MSc)

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Occupational Therapy (PgDip) Ocean Sciences (PhD/MPhil) Optical Communications (PhD/MPhil) Optoelectronics (PhD/MPhil) Organic Electronics (PhD/MPhil)

62 58 73 73 73

Pattern Recognition/Classifiers (PhD/MPhil) Performance – Creative Studies and Media (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) Performance - Music (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) Physical Oceanography (MSc) Policy Research and Evaluation (MA/Dip/Cert) Professional and Clinical Education (PgCert) Primary Education (Postgraduate Certificate in Education - PGCE) Psychological Research (MSc) Psychology (MA/MRes/PgCert/PhD) Public Health and Health Promotion (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) Public Law and Devolved Governments (LLM/Diploma) Public Procurement Law and Strategy (LLM)

71 34 40 58 51 75 44 64 64 62 50 50

Renewable Materials (PhD/MPhil) Research Studentships – Medical Sciences (MPhil/Phd) Risk Management in Health and Social Care (MSc/PgDip/PgCert)

57 63 62

Secondary Education (Postgraduate Certificate in Education - PGCE) Social Policy, Sociology (PhD/MPhil) Social Research and Social Policy (MA/Dip/Cert) Spanish (PhD/MPhil) Sport and Exercise Physiology (MRes/PgCert) Sport and Exercise Psychology (BPS Accredited) (MSc) Sport and Exercise Psychology (MRes/PgCert) Sport and Exercise Science (MRes/PgCert) Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences (PhD/MPhil) Sustainable Forest and Nature Management (Erasmus Mundus course) MSc) Sustainable Tropical Forestry (Erasmus Mundus course) (MSc)

44 51 51 39 65 65 65 65 65 57 57

Translation Studies (MA/PhD/PhD by Practice/MPhil/MPhil by Practice) 39 Tropical Ecosystems (PhD/MPhil) 57 Welsh/Cymraeg (MA/Diploma) Welsh History (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) Welsh Music and Celtic Music (MA/Diploma) Women's Studies (MA/Diploma/Certificate)

41 36 40 45

* new course - subject to validation

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LOCATION

USEFUL CONTACTS

Bangor is far easier to get to than you might think - there are good road links to Bangor along the north Wales coast from the main UK motorway network. Much of north west England is little over an hour away (including Manchester International Airport).

BANGOR UNIVERSITY GWYNEDD LL57 2DG Tel: 01248 351151 Website: www.bangor.ac.uk

Bangor is on the main train line to Holyhead and is served by direct trains from London Euston (approx. 3.5 hours travelling time), Manchester, Birmingham and Cardi. The train station is a short walk from most of the University buildings.

UK/EU PG ADMISSIONS Tel: +44 (0)1248 388484 E-mail: postgraduate@bangor.ac.uk INTERNATIONAL PG ADMISSIONS Tel: +44 (0)1248 382028 E-mail: international@bangor.ac.uk ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND FOUNDATION COURSES Tel: +44 (0)1248 382252 E-mail: elcos@bangor.ac.uk HALLS OFFICE Tel: +44 (0)1248 382667 E-mail: halls@bangor.ac.uk MONEY SUPPORT UNIT Tel: +44 (0)1248 383566/383637 E-mail: moneysupport@bangor.ac.uk

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STUDENT HOUSING OFFICE Tel: +44 (0)1248 382034 E-mail: studenthousing@bangor.ac.uk

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THE MILES DYSLEXIA CENTRE Tel: +44 (0)1248 383843 E-mail: dyslex-student@bangor.ac.uk

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PROSPECTUS AND OTHER UNIVERSITY LITERATURE Tel: +44 (0)1248 383561/382005 E-mail: prospectus@bangor.ac.uk

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STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES Tel: +44 (0)1248 382024 E-mail: studentservices@bangor.ac.uk

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Crewe

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION The University makes all reasonable efforts to ensure that the information in this brochure is correct at the time of printing (September 2011).

The University makes all reasonable efforts to provide the courses, tuition and learning support, research opportunities and other services and facilities with reasonable care and skill and in the way described in this prospectus.

However, the University shall be entitled if it reasonably considers it to be necessary (including in order to manage its resources and to improve the quality of its provision) to make reasonable changes to this provision including: • to make change to (for example) the content and syllabus of courses and methods of teaching and assessment (including in relation to placements); • to suspend or discontinue courses (for example, because a key member of staff is unwell or leaves the University and cannot reasonably be replaced).

In the unlikely event that the University discontinues or does not provide a course or changes it significantly before it begins, the University will tell the relevant individuals at the earliest possible opportunity. An individual will be entitled to withdraw from the course by telling the University in writing within a reasonable time of being informed of the change.

The University will make available to students such learning support and other services and facilities as it considers appropriate but may vary what it provides and how it provides it (for example, the University may consider it desirable to change the way it provides library or IT support).

The willingness of the University to consider an application is no guarantee of acceptance. Students are admitted to the University on the basis that the information they provide in their application form is complete and correct.

‘Wonderful position. On one side are the mountains of the Snowdonia National Park, on the other side is the Menai Strait... boasts the best university setting in the UK, with parts within 6 feet of the sea.’

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