bangor university 2012 postgraduate prospectus

BANGORUNIVERSITYPOSTGRADUATEPROSPECTUS 2012

FOR LEARNINGAND FOR LIFE

‘The 2008 research assessmentsidentified ‘world-leading’ work inall of Bangor's 19 subject areas...Teaching assessments wereimpressive, with half of thesubjects rated as excellent.’TIMES GOOD UNIVERSITY GUYIDE

If you find it difficult toread the size of print inthis prospectus, pleaselook at our websitewww.bangor.ac.uk fordetails of our coursesand facilities.

32 COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES34 School of Creative Studies and Media35 School of English36 School of History and Welsh History38 School of Linguistics and English Language39 School of Modern Languages40 School of Music41 School of Welsh

74 INDEX76 LOCATION AND USEFUL CONTACTS

CONTENTS

2 INTRODUCTION TO THE UNIVERSITY4 INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE6 STUDY OPTIONS8 STUDENT SUPPORT

12 INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS14 ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS AND SUPPORT16 STUDENT FINANCE AND FEES18 APPLYING AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS20 ACCOMMODATION22 FACILITIES AND RESOURCES26 BANGOR AND THE SURROUNDING AREA28 SOCIAL LIFE AND ENTERTAINMENT30 WHO CHOOSES TO STUDY AT BANGOR?

42 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING44 School of Education45 School of Lifelong Learning

46 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LAW48 Bangor Business School50 Bangor Law School51 School of Social Sciences52 Bangor Business School London Centre

68 COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES70 School of Chemistry71 School of Computer Sciences73 School of Electronic Engineering

60 COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES62 School of Healthcare Sciences63 School of Medical Sciences64 School of Psychology65 School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences67 Institute of Medical and Social Care Research

54 COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES56 School of Biological Sciences57 School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography58 School of Ocean Sciences

2 BANGOR UNIVERSITY POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS

INTRODUCTION TOTHE UNIVERSITY

Established in 1884, Bangor University has a long tradition of excellence and exceedsexpectations, both for academic standards and student experience. Bangor Universitytoday is a thriving, forward-looking institution offering excellent postgraduateopportunities in both taught courses and research degrees.

We enjoy an excellent track record for teaching and research quality. The most recentUK-wide Research Assessment Exercise identified world-leading research in all ofour 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 teachingquality. Coupled with the high calibre of research activity, students on taughtpostgraduate courses can enjoy teaching of a high standard delivered by true expertsin their field.

Bangor has a strong research base across a spectrum of academic disciplinesengaging in research at national and international levels. Research is carried outeither directly in the Schools or in Research Centres and Institutes associated withone or more School.

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

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

“Bangor is a genuinely caring and supportiveuniversity community, and we take great pride inthe first class services we offer our students.These include academic, financial, career andpersonal advice support.

The quality of our teaching and research is world-class, attracting students and staff from aroundthe globe. In addition, there are numerousopportunities for students to get involved in awide variety of activities. The stunning mountainsof Snowdonia and miles of coastline provide thebackdrop to a university experience which cannotbe beaten.”

Prof JOHN G. HUGHESVice-Chancellor, Bangor University

BANGOR UNIVERSITY POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 3

BEYOND EXPECTATIONS ANDMILES FROM THE ORDINARY


INTERNATIONALRESEARCHEXCELLENCEA Research-intensive UniversityBangor has a strong research base across a spectrum of academic disciplinesengaging in research at national and international levels. The University providesstrong support for research activities including encouraging links with commercialand industrial bodies in the UK and overseas. The University also aims to beresponsive to local and regional needs and is particularly conscious of its north Waleslocation and role as a research resource and a training base for Wales.

Investment in Your FutureAs part of our commitment to providing first-class facilities for our students, theresult of a multi-million pound investment programme can be seen on the Universitycampus, with new student residences and academic facilities such as theManagement Centre and the Environment Centre for Wales buildings already in place.The University is also building a new £36M Performing Arts and Innovation Centrewhich will be home to cutting-edge teaching and learning facilities, a theatre, cinemaspace, a studio theatre, an outdoor amphitheatre, as well as social facilities includingbars, dining and park areas.

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

The Research Assessment Exercise 2008The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) measures the quality of researchconducted in universities and other higher education institutions in the UK. The resultsare used by the higher education funding bodies to determine the level of researchgrant given to institutions.

The assessment categories are as follows:

4* = world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour3* = internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour, but falls

short of the highest standard of excellence2* = recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour1* = 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 19assessed subject areas with nearly 50% given the top grading of 3* and 4*.

Areas of particular excellence include Accounting and Finance within the BusinessSchool which is rated as the best in the UK and Electronic Engineering which israted second in the UK.

In addition, Sports Science and Welsh are placed in the top 10 in the UK in theirrespective units of assessment and Psychology 11th in the UK.

In the Arts and Humanities, the School of Music for example had 90% of its researchstaff rated as world-leading or of international quality.

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


“Academically, Bangor has a long tradition of excellence. Founded in 1884, theUniversity’s position as a first-class institution of higher education wasreaffirmed by the most recent research assessment exercise, when 19subjects 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 lowestnationally.”SUNDAY TIMES UNIVERSITY GUIDE

AN INTERNATIONALUNIVERSITY FOR THE REGION


STUDY OPTIONS

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

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

Taught CoursesPostgraduate Diplomas and Masters Degrees normally entail one year full-time study.The coursework element takes eight months, after which a postgraduate Diplomamay be awarded. However, if you reach a sufficiently high standard in the Diplomaassessment, you are given the option of carrying out a research project andsubmitting a dissertation (usually taking 4- 7 months) for a Master degree (MA, MSc,MTh, MMus, as appropriate). Most Masters courses can be exited at PostgraduateDiploma level. The Masters courses are similar to undergraduate courses in that theyconsist of lectures, projects and assignments. They can be more intensive with lectureprogrammes lasting all day, and many essays demanded throughout the course, inaddition to the final research project.

Other postgraduate taught courses on offer include:PG Cert, PG Diploma, PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education – professionalteaching qualification), MBA.

Research ProgrammesThe degrees of MPhil and PhD are research degrees and are awarded after theexamination of a candidate’s thesis, produced following a period of research. Whilethe majority of candidates pursue research degrees on a full-time basis, in certaincircumstances it is possible to offer part-time schemes of study. You may register forthese degrees at the beginning of any month.

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

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

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

The usual period of registration for research programmes is:Full-time: MPhil 2 years / PhD 3 yearsPart-time: MPhil 3 years / PhD 5 years

DClinPsyThis 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 bedirected to The Clearing House for Postgraduate Courses in Clinical Psychology, 15Hyde Terrace, Leeds, LS2 9LT. Please view their website for details and closing dates:www.leeds.ac.uk/chpccp.


A SPRINGBOARDFOR THE FUTURE

Postgraduates are highly employable and onaverage earn more than individuals whosehighest qualification is an undergraduate degree.*For those who are already in work, postgraduatestudy can be a route to advancing in an existingcareer as well as opening up new employmentopportunities.* according to Machin, S. and Murphy, R. , The Social Composition and Future Earnings of Postgraduates Report, Sutton Trust 2010.

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

Academic SupportIn order to equip postgraduate students with the broad portfolio of skills increasinglydemanded by employers, we provide a series of transferable skills courses.

The Early Researcher Development Programme is designed to help postgraduatestudents at Bangor University to meet the requirements of the ResearcherDevelopment Framework of the UK Research Councils. This Framework emphasisesthe importance of postgraduate students developing generic skills that will aid theirtransition into a successful career alongside the specific research skills andtechniques that they acquire during their programme. The Programme is delivered asa partnership between the Academic Development Unit and academic Schools andColleges 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 thatthere is significant diversity in the research methods and approaches in differentdisciplines, and in the prior experience of postgraduate students and their modes ofattendance. Therefore, we offer a flexible programme that students, in consultationwith their supervisors, can tailor to their individual needs and to the needs of theirresearch projects. More details can be found on the Academic Development Unitwebsite at: www.bangor.ac.uk/adu

Study SkillsThe School of Lifelong Learning offers weekly study skills drop-in sessions during thetwo main semesters of the academic year. The sessions cover topics such as notetaking, planning and writing assignments, oral presentations, preparing for exams,mathematics, statistics and numeracy. More details can be found on the School ofLifelong Learning website at: www.bangor.ac.uk/ll

Research Students’ Forum The Research Students’ Forum (RSF) is the official representation group forpostgraduate researchers at Bangor University. All postgraduate research studentsare eligible to participate and stand for election. The RSF works with the University tomaintain and improve standards and facilities for the postgraduate communitythrough representation on University task groups and committees. The RSF offers asocial arena for new and existing research students to facilitate the creation ofacademic as well as social links between research students of different disciplines.RSF also organises conferences, including the ‘Beyond Boundaries Conference’ whichis Bangor University's annual conference organised by and for the postgraduateresearch community in Bangor and beyond. It provides opportunities for researchersfrom arts and science Schools to network and explore new perspectives and offersthe opportunity for postgraduates, at an early stage of their career, to present theirwork.

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


STUDENT SUPPORT


The Times Higher Education Supplement rankedBangor as the top UK university for help andsupport.

A SUPPORTIVECOMMUNITY


Student Support ServicesThe 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 GPpractice also offers a health information and advice service.

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

• an adviser for international students who can help with issues such as liaising withUniversity 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 ServiceThe University welcomes applications from students with disabilities and aims toprovide equality and opportunity for all students. Including information about yourdisability, medical condition, specific learning difficulty or mental health difficulty onyour application form enables us to begin discussions about any study support youmay need at an early stage. These discussions are in confidence and information willbe shared only on a ‘need to know’ basis within the University, when appropriate andwith your permission.

The Disability Service within Student Support Services offers a service for all disabledstudents whether full-time or part-time. Each person’s requirements are consideredon an individual basis and the Service works within the framework of the University’sconfidentiality 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 authorityor 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 AdviserStudent Support Services,1st Floor Neuadd Rathbone, College RoadBangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DGTel: 01248 388650E-mail: [email protected]/studentservices

Bangor Miles Dyslexia CentreThe Miles Dyslexia Centre’s Student Serviceprovides all-round support for Bangor Universitystudents with dyslexia, and other specific learningdifferences such as dyspraxia and ADD /AD(H)D.The Centre also works with University staff,providing information and helping to buildBangor’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 thatinclusive 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 theCentre’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 CentreBangor University, Bangor, GwyneddLL57 2DG Tel: 01248 382203E-mail: [email protected] www.dyslexia.bangor.ac.uk

Postgraduate Ambassador SchemeAt Bangor we have developed the PostgraduateAmbassador Scheme. This is modelled on ourvery successful undergraduate Peer GuideScheme which offers a warm welcome and helpwith settling in to life in Bangor.

The Postgraduate Ambassadors offer a welcometo our new postgraduate students and will be onhand to help you find your feet in Bangor. Theyunderstand what it is like to make the step up topostgraduate study so they can give you a fewfriendly tips and introduce you to other students.They are all familiar with what it is like to be astudent at Bangor and will be able to show youwhere all the things are that you might need –from the launderette to the library, the shops tothe seminar rooms, the choral society to thecomputer rooms. However, if you need any help orinformation they can’t provide themselves theywill be able to point you in the direction ofsomeone else who can help you.

Look out for them when you arrive – they’ll bevisible in your academic School wearing theirgreen ‘hoodies’. If by chance you don’t meet onefor some reason, please contact:[email protected]

STUDENT SUPPORT


The Careers and Employability ServiceAt Bangor, we are committed to your personal and career development. To nurturethis development and enhance your employability the Careers and EmployabilityService aims to help you acquire the ‘employability’ skills that are so highly sought-after by employers to accompany your academic qualifications. The Service providesa year-round programme of individual guidance, workshops, employer talks andemployment fairs. To supplement these advice and guidance services, they also runadditional services that provide local part-time jobs, voluntary experience andsummer 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. TheJobZone can help you find local part-time work and we also advertise graduatevacancies 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 ofterm-time and vacation-based work experience opportunities, and even deliver aprogramme of work placements.

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

B-Enterprising Programme – This programmeprovides budding entrepreneurs with enterpriseand business training and support. It will help youto consider and prepare for self-employment. Wewill also help you to develop enterprise skills inorder to make you more successful whether youwant to be an employee or run your own business.You will learn how to network, think creatively,promote yourself or a product effectively as wellas develop more practical skills to do with startingup a business.

Online Careers Advice – Because we realise thatstudents often need access to careers advice atshort notice, we offer online advice to supplementour usual guidance provision.

AlumniAfter your studies at Bangor, the Development andAlumni Relations Office will help you maintainyour contact with the University from whereveryou are in the world. A wide variety of benefitsand services are available to alumni as well aschannels for keeping in touch with formerclassmates, finding lost friends and help withorganising reunions.

You can contact the Development and AlumniRelations Office at: Development and Alumni Relations Office Bangor UniversityBangorGwynedd LL57 2DG Tel: + 44 (0)1248 382223 E-mail: [email protected]/alumni

A FRIENDLY, STUDENT CENTREDPLACE TO LIVE AND STUDY


INFORMATION FORINTERNATIONALSTUDENTSSupport for International StudentsThe University is very aware of the challenges facing internationalstudents in moving away from home to study, so we have a range ofservices and support to help you in the time leading up to arrival inBangor and throughout your time here as a student.

Meet and Greet ServiceA meeting service for students who arrive at ManchesterInternational Airport can be arranged. This service is only availableto students travelling as a group or students travelling with theirfamilies. Students who wish to be met should contact theInternational 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: [email protected] Tel : + 44 (0) 1248 388430

Students who arrive at Bangor by train on the Saturday and Sundayof the 1st weekend of the academic year are met by the Students’Union and taken by minibus to their accommodation. In addition tothis service, a taxi service operates from both the train and busstations.

Welcome WeekDuring the first week at Bangor a range of activities are organised tointroduce 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 specialOrientation Day which is an opportunity to meet other internationalstudents, external organisations and take a trip around thesurrounding area all help students to make friends, get to knowtheir way around and settle in.

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

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

Further information and an opportunity to learn more about ourambassadors can be found at:www.bangor.ac.uk/studentlife/features/ambassadors

Student Welfare AdviserThroughout the year, the International Student Welfare Office offersassistance and advice on a range of matters such as NHS healthcare in the UK, opening a bank account, immigration status andapplications to extend your visas, work regulations and findingwork, travelling outside the UK, Police registration, accommodation,bringing your family to the UK, nurseries and schools in Bangor, andEnglish Language courses. We also arrange coach trips to places ofinterest.

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

“It’s good to be able tocommunicate with staff at alllevels - even the Head of School,who is tremendously busy buthas never delayed in replying tomy numerous enquiries. Havinga degree from a leadingUniversity and studying withleading staff will help withfinding a job or proceeding withmy academic study.”

MOHAMMAD HASSAN, fromLebanon, studying an MBA inBanking and Finance

“I found out about Bangorbecause there is an inter-national cooperation betweenBangor University and Inter-national Finance College, BeijingNormal University, where I usedto study. The best thing aboutbeing a student in Bangor isreceiving lectures by academicstaff who are pushing back thefrontiers of research and whowill share their latest findings inlectures.”

GUYUE JI, from China, studyingMSc in Accounting and Finance


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


ENGLISH LANGUAGEREQUIREMENTSAND SUPPORTTo enable you to have the best learning experience at Bangor, youmust be able to communicate effectively in English. Students forwhom English is not a first language will be required to provideevidence of English proficiency through an approved testing systemsuch as IELTS or TOEFL.

Entry onto postgraduate courses requires the following EnglishLanguage minimum scores:

• An overall score of IELTS 6.0 with no individualscore 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 IELTS REQUIREMENT OR EQUIVALENTBusiness (Research Degrees) 7.0 with no individual score lower than 6.5Business (MBA Banking and Finance) 6.5 with no individual score lower than 6.0 Education 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.0 English Literature At least 7.0 in all aspects of the testEnglish Language & Linguistics 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.5Law 6.5 with at least 6.0 in each individual component scoreModern Languages (MA in Translation Studies) At least 7.0 in all aspects of the test Ocean Sciences (MSc Marine Environmental Protection / MSc Marine Biology) 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.0Psychology 6.5 with writing component no less than 6.0Sport, Health & Exercise Sciences 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.0Theology and Religious Studies 6.5 with no individual component less than 6.0

More information about English Language requirements can befound at: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/future/englishlanguageEnglish Language SupportThe English Language Centre for Overseas Students (ELCOS) hasover 25 years experience of running English language courses andprovides language improvement and study skills courses tooverseas students at Bangor University.

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

The Centre also offers general English language improvementcourses and language and writing courses to help you develop youracademic English skills whilst you study at Bangor. Moreinformation 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: [email protected]

“The student reviews I readabout Bangor Universitypromised that the Universitystaff are always more thanready to help. After studyinghere for one year, I can confirmthis.

My personal highlight at BangorUniversity is the outstandingsupport from lecturers andlibrary staff. Furthermore, theassignment topics, from whichwe had to choose, were alwaysso interesting.

Bangor University providesstudents with an intellectuallystimulating study environment.It feels natural to be here. Assoon as I had set foot in BangorI felt at home.”

TAMARA BUKATZ, fromGermany, studying Law LLM


“Bangor is an optimistic,multicultural, friendlyenvironment with generoussupport for its students –helping to prepare for study andfuture challenges.”

SYED AJIJUR RAHMAN, fromBangladesh, studying for a PhDin Agroforestry

OVER 125 YEARS OF EXCELLENCEIN TEACHING AND RESEARCH


STUDENT FINANCEAND FEES

Tuition FeesThe tuition fees cover the cost of your study at the University. Thefees are determined by the students’ country of origin andsometimes vary depending on the type of subject being studied.

In order to be classified as a United Kingdom/European Unionstudent 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 withoutrestriction; and

• have been ordinarily resident in the UK/EU for the full three yearperiod immediately preceding the start of the course of study; and

• not have been resident in the UK/EU wholly or mainly for thepurposes of receiving full-time education during any part of thethree year period.

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

This information offers a guideline only. For full details, pleaseconsult ‘The Education (Fees and Awards) Regulations’ which can beobtained from UKCOSA (www.ukcosa.org.uk). Further details can befound at: www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/main/fees

For all current tuition fees and further information about fees forcertain courses, please visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/main/fees

FundingThere are various sources of funding available to postgraduatestudents. It is essential that you start thinking about how to fundyour postgraduate studies as early as possible as there are oftendeadlines set for applying for funding.

As well as considering external funding it’s worth knowing thatBangor 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 theInternational 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

Low Cost of LivingMarket research shows that the cost of living in Bangor is muchlower 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 ofUniversities and Higher Education Colleges) and is consistentlyranked as one of the most economical places to study in the UK invarious cost-of-living surveys so you can make the most of yourmoney here.

“Bangor is a small, friendly cathedralcity set in a stunning location… Thegeneral consensus is that Bangor is asafe, clean and affordable place tolive, and comes highly recommended.”

THE GUARDIAN UNIVERSITY GUIDE


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

HOME/EU STUDENTS 2011/12POSTGRADUATE TAUGHTFull-time Taught Masters (e.g. MA/MSc, MTh, LLM, MRes etc) £3,550Postgraduate 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 £6,000Bangor Business School Full-time MBA £9,700School of Healthcare Sciences PG Diploma in Occupational Therapy (2 yrs.) £3,550School of Law Executive LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy

(2 yrs part-time) £4,497School of Law LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy (1 yr) £4,998School of Psychology MSc/MA Consumer Psychology with Business £6,000

LONDON CENTRELondon Centre Full-time MBA (Banking & Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance) £18,000London Centre Full-time MSc (Banking & Finance, Finance, International Banking

and Development Finance) £11,000London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA £15,750London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA (accelerated route) £7,750London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA (super accelerated route) £5,000

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHFull-time Research Programmes (PhD/DMin/DClinPsy /EdD/MPhil) £3,732Part-Time Research Programmes (per year) £1,866PhD full-time but in an external place of employment £1,866

DISTANCE LEARNINGMSc (price per 20 credit module) £ 710

(dissertation) £1,184

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 2011/12POSTGRADUATE TAUGHT AND RESEARCHCollege of Arts, Education & Humanities (including PGCE) £9,800College of Business, Social Sciences & Law £9,800Bangor Business School MA/MSc £12,000Bangor Business School MBA £13,000College of Healthcare and Behavioural Sciences £12,500School of Law Executive LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy

(2 yrs part-time) £5,997School of Law LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy (1 yr) £11,994College of Natural Sciences £12,500College of Physical & Applied Sciences £12,500

LONDON CENTRELondon Centre Full-time MBA (Banking & Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance) £18,000London Centre Full-time MSc (Banking & Finance, Finance, International Banking

and Development Finance) £15,000London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA £15,750London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA (accelerated route) £7,750London Centre Full-time Chartered Banker MBA (super accelerated route) £5,000

DISTANCE LEARNINGMSc Forestry (price per 20 credit module) £1,507

(dissertation) £3,670

The above fees are indicative of those that will be charged by theUniversity 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 the2012/13 academic year and the fee level will be determined during2011. For further details, please visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/main/fees


APPLYING ANDENTRY REQUIREMENTS

How to ApplyYou can apply online for all postgraduate taught courses andpostgraduate research programmes (with the exception of thePGCE, Diploma in Occupational Therapy and DClinPsy – see belowfor further details) at:www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/taught/application

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

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

In some countries we have a network of Agents who can assist youwith 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 anddiscuss the topic for research with the relevant department prior tosubmitting the application. The research degree application shouldinclude a research proposal outlining the topic, purpose andrationale behind the research in question.

A good research proposal is essential if you are applying for a PhDor 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 orempirical debates that will be addressed.

(ii) Planning – you need to demonstrate that you are aware of theresearch timescales and have a plan in place to conduct yourwork. You need to demonstrate that the research is manageablein the given time period.

(iii) Literature references – you need to show that your planned areaof research has not been studied before. Provide references tokey articles and texts relevant to your area of study.

(vi) Methodology – you need to show that you are aware of themethodological tools available and have identified which oneswould be suitable for your research.

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

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

Applications for Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)Candidates should note that the application process for the PGCEprogrammes differs from Bangor University's standardpostgraduate application procedure. Applications are made throughthe Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR), which has earlierdeadlines for submission.

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

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

Applications for DClinPsyApplications must be made through:The Clearing House for Postgraduate Courses inClinical Psychology, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds, LS2 9LTTelephone: + 44 (0) 113 343 2737Fax: + 44 (0) 113 243 0908E-mail: [email protected]: www.leeds.ac.uk/chpccp

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


Entry RequirementsThe qualifications, skills and qualities needed for postgraduatestudy at Bangor vary from course to course and academic School toSchool. Full details can be found on our online postgraduateprospectus 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 themedium of English at Bangor, and to get the most from your studies,students for whom English is not a first language will be required toprovide evidence of English Language proficiency. If you need totake further studies to improve your English Language, you canapply to undertake English Language courses at the University'sEnglish Language Centre prior to the beginning of the academicprogramme.

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

AcademicEntry onto postgraduate programmes requires a Bachelor/firstdegree from an approved University or Higher Education Institution.Normally for admission to Masters courses the minimum degreeclassification accepted is a lower second class honours orequivalent and for research degrees an upper second class honoursor equivalent. Bachelor degrees gained in the UK are normallyaccepted. For students with degrees from other countries pleasesee: www.bangor.ac.uk/international

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

Mature Student RegulationsMature students who do not have the academic qualificationsnormally required for entry can be considered for entry ontopostgraduate degree programmes. A minimum of two yearsrelevant professional work experience can be recognised as anentry qualification and may be accepted in-lieu of formal academicqualifications.

Disability Support/Applicants with Additional Support NeedsIf you are an applicant with additional support needs, you cancontact an adviser at the Disability Service (within the StudentSupport Service) to discuss any support needs you may have andarrangements 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 388650E-mail: [email protected]


ACCOMMODATION

A limited number of rooms are available for postgraduate studentsin University managed accommodation. All of the Universityaccommodation is self-catered and kitchens are shared with fellowhalls students. Equipment provided in the kitchens varies fromresidence to residence, but all will have basic facilities such ascookers, fridges and freezers. Our accommodation sites aresituated throughout the city so you are never far from shops, pubsand 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 beprovided by the Student Housing Office.

The Student Housing Office deals with private rentedaccommodation for students. You can access this information in theStudent Housing Office itself, where staff are available to give helpand advice. Most, if not all of the properties are also advertised onour website and you can search our database for your idealproperty to rent. We also provide a Student Guide to PrivateAccommodation, which is designed to help you when looking foryour first house in the private rented sector, pointing out the thingsto look out for and your rights as a tenant. For further informationplease visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/studentservices/studenthousingor e-mail [email protected]

A range of eating venues, which are open to all, are available invarious locations around the campus. These are situated on themain Ffriddoedd accommodation site (Bar Uno), the Normal Site (YBistro), in the Main Arts Building (Café Teras) and in the EnvironmentCentre Wales Building (Caffi Glas). All our catering outlets use localand Fairtrade products whenever possible.

If you prefer to eat out, there are several restaurants and take-aways (Greek, Italian, Chinese and Indian) close to the mainUniversity buildings.


FACILITIES ANDRESOURCES

Library and Archives ServicesTo help you with your studies we provide a range of learningresources supported by experienced staff. We provide Library,Archives, Computing, Media and Reprographics facilities andservices. 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 ourresources during your study at Bangor.

Our main aim is to make sure you have easy access to the materialyou need for your day-to-day work. We have an extensive collectionof books and journals and most journals are available online in fulltext format.

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

In addition to the Main Library for arts, humanities and socialsciences, business and law on College Road, there is the scienceand psychology Library in the Deiniol Building. Both have a studysupport room with assistive technology such as CCTVs, scannersand Braille embossers. There is also a Library for education andsport science at the George Site.

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

We have special library collections including the Welsh Librarywhich has books in Welsh on a range of subjects and books in otherlanguages relating to Wales. We also have the largest university-based Archives in the UK which contain literary and historicalmanuscripts and the archives of most major estates in north Wales.Other special collections include the Bangor Diocesan Library, SirFrank Brangwyn’s Library of art books and the Owen PritchardCollection which is rich in the output of modern private presses.

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

Subject-Specialist ResourcesWe have a range of other learning resources which support specificsubject areas:

• a Multimedia Language Centre which uses digital technologythrough computers which are able to record and play back digitalsound, and mix audio and text. Hundreds of exercises are availablethrough a simple menu and test-based exercises can be used onmost open-access computers around the University.

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

• a Centre for Hill and Upland Management located 5 miles east ofBangor, which maintains strong links with local farmers. Onesection of this is used entirely for research and educationalpurposes, and has areas devoted to agroforestry, crop andlivestock experiments. There is also a forestry demonstrationarea. The other part comprises lowland, improved upland andopen mountain grazing, and is operated on a commercial basis.

• a £3.5M ocean-going Research Ship which provides practicalexperience at sea and the opportunity to develop projects onscientific 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 teachingactivities of the School of Biological Sciences and the School of theEnvironment, Natural Resources and Geography. Situated on theshores of the Menai Strait, the site has seven glasshouses,including a large landscaped tropical house, a large undergroundroot research laboratory, a teaching laboratory, formal gardenbeds, a rock garden, an arboretum and a conservation collection.


Information Technology ServicesIT Services is responsible for the implementation and support of theUniversity IT infrastructure and provides a wide range of facilitiesand services including high speed network access on campus andin 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 forstudents to use in open access areas and computer rooms acrosscampus, of these 200 are available 24 hours every day. Allcomputers have the necessary software to support your studies atthe University, including Microsoft Office, Web browsers, e-mailers,statistics and graphics packages etc. Printing facilities are availablewithin or near all the open access computing rooms and in alllibraries.

There are specialised computing facilities in the Main Arts andDeiniol Libraries for the sole use of disabled students or those withadditional needs. The rooms contain computers running a range ofassistive software, Braille embosser, Rainbow scanner, CCTVmagnifier and height adjustable furniture.

IT Facilities in Halls of Residence - You can access the internet fromHalls 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 ofResidence. You can also access the networked software using ourDesktopAnywhere facility without having to install any additionalspecial software on your computer. This can also be used fromhome, wireless zones or within on-campus computer rooms, in factanywhere you have a broadband or better network connection. TheUniversity also provides an e-mail account, and somewhere to storeyour academic work, both of which can be accessed anywhere withan internet connection.

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

Bringing your own computer to University - Computer ownership isnot obligatory but if you do decide to bring a PC, we have easy to usewireless internet access across the campus.

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

Services for Disabled StudentsThe University houses an accredited ACCESS Centre which offersstudy needs assessments for students eligible for the DisabledStudents’ Allowance. Once your disability-related study needs havebeen assessed, a Needs Assessment Report will be produced andsent to your funding body for approval. For further informationplease contact the ACCESS Centre:E-mail: [email protected]: 01248 388101www.bangor.ac.uk/access-centre

In addition, the University also houses DSAKit, and IT equipmentsupply service specifically for DSA applicants. Where your fundingbody has selected DSAKit as the supplier they will coordinate theprovision of IT equipments and software installation, and supportyou to get up and running quickly and easily. For further information,please contact DSAKit:E-mail: [email protected]: 01248 382104www.bangor.ac.uk/dsakit

Learning TechnologyOnline Learning - The University’s bilingual virtual learningenvironment Blackboard is available on and off-campus for allusers. It provides online support including course notes, audio andvideo material, blogs and quizzes.

Lecture Capture - Fully automated lecture recording systems areincreasingly installed in main lecture rooms. If a lecturer has optedto use this service, the system records audio, and whatever isdisplayed on the projector. This is then saved and can be distributedthrough Blackboard, the University’s on-line learning environment.

Online Service - The University is developing on-line access toinformation and services to support you whilst at University, to saveyou time and energy. Our expanding range of online servicesincludes 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 bindingunit 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 onhand to help with any IT problem, advice or just that extra bit ofreassurance we all need sometimes. All new users are given acomprehensive guide on all IT Services available at Bangor(electronic and printed versions available). We also provide a widerange of IT Guides which can be accessed online.


Sport and FitnessBangor is exceptionally well-situated and well-equipped forstudents interested in sport – especially those involving the greatoutdoors. Rock climbing, mountain biking, canoeing, sailing andsurfing are just some of the activities available, as well as teamsports such as rugby, hockey and football.

The University’s Sport Centre, Maes Glas, has extensive indoor andoutdoor sports facilities including 3 well-equipped gyms forcardiovascular exercise and weights training, a gymnastics hall, amulti-route climbing wall with ascents for varying difficulty, and abouldering section, plus four international-standard squash courts.Out of doors we have grass pitches for football and rugby, all in sitesof scenic beauty, a floodlit synthetic pitch for hockey games andtraining, and two multi-purpose facilities for tennis, five-a-sidefootball and netball.

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

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

FACILITIES ANDRESOURCES

A £20m redevelopment of facilities on thecampus has taken place, including a £10mbusiness and management centre and a buildingfor environmental sciences.



BANGOR ANDTHE SURROUNDING AREA

The City and its SurroundingsBangor is an ancient cathedral city set in an area of outstandingnatural beauty on the north Wales coast, where the Snowdoniamountains meet the sea. It is considered one of the safest and mostcosts effective cities in the UK in which to live and study. The areaoffers fantastic opportunities for students interested in the outdoorsincluding sailing, hiking, climbing, surfing, rowing, kyaking andwindsurfing.

The city has a vibrant shopping centre boasting the longest highstreet in Wales. There is a good mix of national chain stores andsmaller local businesses. Bangor also has a good choice ofsupermarkets and a few minutes outside the city centre there is aretail 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 Universitybuildings. High Street shops, banks, supermarkets, restaurants andbars are also close by. The size and friendly nature of Bangormeans it is easy to get to know people and our students settle inquickly. Student surveys show that a high proportion of studentschoose Bangor because of the small and friendly nature of theUniversity and the town.

The cost of living is lower than in most urban areas, so you canmake the most of your money in what is a very pleasantenvironment in which to live and study. The opportunity to find part-time work is important to some students and the University'sStudent Employment Bureau (JobZone) within the Careers andEmployability Service can help you find suitable work. Also worthbearing in mind is the fact that, compared to many other universitycities, 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 areaoffers plenty of wide open spaces. The mountains and coastline ofSnowdonia is an area of outstanding natural beauty, offering youwonderful recreational opportunities whether you’re interested inoutdoor activities or just want to enjoy the scenery.

Historical towns such as Beaumaris, Conwy and Caernarfon (whichall have their own castles) or picturesque places such asBeddgelert, Llanberis and Betws y Coed are well worth a visit. As apopular holiday destination, north Wales has much to offer in termsof tourist attractions and sights such as the Snowdon MountainRailway and Thomas Telford’s famous Suspension Bridge. For daytrips, the Victorian resort town of Llandudno and historical Chesterare both easy car or train journeys away, while the fast ferry servicefrom Holyhead to Ireland means a day trip to Dublin is also apopular option.

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

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


The location, the scenery and the surroundingarea are amongst the reasons why many of ourstudents choose to come to Bangor.

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


Social Life and EntertainmentBangor is very much a University city - the entertainment and night-life is student-orientated and student-led. The Students’ Unionorganizes a large number of student clubs and societies, covering awide range of sporting, social, cultural, religious and politicalinterests.

The latest films are shown at the nine-screen Cineworld MultiplexCinema at Llandudno Junction. The Venue Cymru theatre, which isless 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 mostexciting and varied concert programmes of any British universitywith well over 30 concerts a season. As well as our own ChamberEnsemble, there are visits by artists of international calibre, regularperformances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales andoccasional visits from international orchestras.

Oriel Ynys Môn, on Anglesey, has a purpose built museum, art andevents gallery. The gallery offers a dynamic programme of creativeexhibitions, displaying the work of established artists and youngtalents alike. Wales’ premier art gallery, Oriel Mostyn, in Llandudno,has been described as ‘one of the most adventurous contemporaryart venues in the country.’ It is also one of the most beautifulgalleries in Britain, and shows exhibitions by major internationalartists.

An ambitious new Performing Arts & Innovation Centre on theUniversity campus is set to have a transformative effect on the localeconomy, as well as become an internationally significant centre forlearning, innovation and the performing arts.

The £36M ‘Pontio’ project – which means ‘to bridge’ in Welsh – hasreceived investment from the Welsh Government and the EuropeanRegional Development Fund.

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

The Centre will include a dynamic Innovation Hub, cutting-edgeteaching and learning facilities and a range of indoor and outdoorperformance spaces including a theatre and cinema space, cafés,restaurants, and parkland where people can meet, learn and beentertained.

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

SOCIAL LIFE &ENTERTAINMENT

“The best thing about being a student inBangor is the size of the community andthe environment it’s situated in. Bangor isa small town; I’d hate to live in a big city.The University is surrounded bymountains on one side and the sea on theother. You can go hiking during the day andbe back in time for a BBQ at the beach. TheUniversity offers activities geared towardspostgraduates practically all year roundand there are academic as well as socialevents to choose from.

There are a great variety of student clubs and societies here inBangor. Being part of the Mountain Walking Club has made a bigdifference. Getting out of the office on weekends and clamberingaround mountains means a lot to me.”

ADRIAN LUESCHER, studying a PhD in Linguistics

“This is a once in ageneration chance forBangor. We will create aninternationally significantCentre for learning,innovation and theperforming arts that will bea potent symbol ofregeneration andcollaboration for the wholecommunity.”

Prof John G. HughesVice Chancellor


AN INTERNATIONALLYSIGNIFICANT CENTREFOR LEARNING,INNOVATIONAND THEPERFORMING ARTS

“I first came to Bangor to do myundergraduate degree in MarineBiology. I heard about BangorUniversity from my biologyteacher at school who said it hada good reputation and I shouldlook at their courses. When I cameto visit Bangor I could imaginemyself studying and living hereand I knew it was where I wantedto come and study. The proximityto the sea and the mountains wasa big factor in winning me over tocome and study here.

I’m studying at the School ofOcean Sciences which is situatedin Menai Bridge on Anglesey. Thedepartment has a long history

and a good reputation for research and education in marinesciences. Most people locally know it for the department’s researchvessel the RV Prince Madog.

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

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

Postgraduate study is far more independent than undergraduatelevel. You have to motivate yourself and exercise a lot of selfdiscipline, otherwise it can be easy to fall behind schedule in yourwork or wipe yourself out by working too hard.

Both academically and in terms of your student life you will notregret spending time studying at Bangor University.”

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


With over 10,000 students from all over the world, Bangor offersyou the chance to become part of a vibrant student communitysituated in one of the most attractive study locations in the UK andto study at a well-established university with an excellent reputationfor both teaching and research.

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

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

All our courses are taught in English, although for Welsh speakersthere are opportunities to study a number of courses through themedium of Welsh. Over 25% of our students speak both Welsh andEnglish, while 65% of staff are bilingual or are learning Welsh.Bangor is recognised as one of the world’s leading universities interms of research on bilingualism and language technologies.

Over half our students are females and we recruit students from allsorts of backgrounds being particular popular with students whovalue the smaller community feel which the University and city ofBangor offer.

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

WHO CHOOSESTO STUDY AT BANGOR?

“Bangor has got everything a big city has, butwithout the cramped space – including someaward-winning restaurants. Bangor is alsoprobably the only university in Britain that issurrounded by all you could possibly want to do,places to mountain-climb, surf, swim, rock-climbor just trail-walk.

I am very passionate about Fairtrade, while atBangor studying for my undergraduate degree, Iwas lucky enough to act as Chairperson of theFairtrade Society and we successfully achievedseveral targets for Bangor to become a certifiedFairtrade university.”

JENNA TODD JONES, from South Wales, studyingMSc in Clinical Neuropsychology

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“The whole Bangorexperience has beengreat - it's thecombination of thelocation, the people andthe course.”

“It's a beautiful placewith stunning scenery.The lecturers and staffare very friendly and theUniversity has acommunity feel about it.”

“Because I would bestudying miles awayfrom home, I wantedthe University to be likea second home and Ireally felt it was myhome away from home.The warm welcomingculture of the peoplearound, the greeneryand the structure;everything was soperfect that I fell in lovewith the place.”


About the CollegeResearch into the Arts and Humanities atBangor University dates back to 1884 whenthe University College was founded. TheCollege of Arts and Humanities bringstogether a variety of collaborative projectsand a wide-range of academic expertise,offering a diverse choice of postgraduateprogrammes of study. If you’re thinkingabout a postgraduate career in the Arts andHumanities, with over fifty different andchallenging postgraduate programmesavailable, Bangor is a natural choice.

Research strengthsResearch in the College spans a wide rangeof discipline areas and in many casescombines expertise across discipline areas.We have a proven international record ofresearch achievement with the regularpublication of books and articles by staffthroughout the College – this means thatyou will be sharing a learning environmentwith academics at the cutting edge of theirchosen field. There are also variedpossibilities for research hosted in theCollege’s research centres, such as theBilingualism Centre, the Centre for Researchin Early Music, the Institute for Medieval andEarly Modern Studies (IMEMS), to name afew.

FacilitiesThe College has access to a wide range ofUniversity teaching, learning and supportresources in addition to those resourceswhich are made available by our constituentSchools. We have study rooms, wherestudents have access to study space and ITfacilities, and the library has a dedicatedarts and humanities research room whichhouses reference volumes and is for theexclusive use of postgraduates and stafffrom the College.

Centres of ExcellenceThe following research centres are basedwithin the College of Arts and Humanities:

• Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies(CAWMS)CAWMS co-ordinates and develops Welshmusical scholarship by promotingconferences and publications, providingwritten resources in the medium of Welsh,and collaborating with scholars in otherCeltic countries.

• Centre for Research in Early Music The Centre, founded in 2006, co-ordinatesthe activities of music staff engaged inresearch on music before 1700 – aconcentration of specific excellenceunequalled in any other institution in theUK.

• Centre for Galician Studies in Wales A forum for research on contemporaryGalicia. Issues pertaining to bilingualismand cultural identity and their relevance toboth Galician and Welsh culture are ofparticular interest.

• Centre for Medieval StudiesCMS fosters collaboration and scholarlyexchange in Medieval Studies at Bangorand further afield, and, by extension,promotes teaching at undergraduate andpostgraduate level and encouragesinitiatives involving more than onedepartment.

• Electroacoustic Wales Electroacoustic Wales supportselectroacoustic music composition andresearch in the School of Music’s studios,organises and promotes concerts ofelectroacoustic music, stages workshopson the principles and practice ofelectroacoustic music, and acts as aconduit and focal point for discussion andco-operation between electroacousticmusic composers, performers andlisteners in Wales.

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

• The Graduate Programme in TranslationStudiesThe Programme combines the expertise ofacademics and practitioners in the field oftranslation who are based at the School ofModern Languages, the School of Welshand Bangor University's Translation andLanguage Technologies Unit.

• International Centre for Sacred MusicStudies (ICSMuS)This new international centre of excellencesets out to stimulate, support, disseminateand engage in research and study in theinterdisciplinary field of sacred music.

• R.S. Thomas Centre The Centre, a collaboration between theSchools of Welsh and English, wasofficially opened by R.S. Thomas in April2000. Its archive contains an extensivecollection of manuscript material by R.S.Thomas, including unpublished work, aswell as all of his published works, togetherwith a comprehensive collection ofreviews, critical books and articles,interviews and audio-visual material. Thismaterial is available to visiting scholars.

• The Archive of Traditional Welsh MusicA repository of recorded musical andverbal forms which are perpetuated in theoral tradition rather than through writingor printing. Primarily a research, teachingand training centre, the Archiveendeavours to serve educationalinstitutions and the general public.

• Institute of Medieval and Early ModernStudies (IMEMS)The Institute builds on excellence in Artsand Humanities research at BangorUniversity and Aberystwyth University andtakes a multidisciplinary approach to thestudy of the medieval and early modernperiods.

COLLEGE OF ARTSAND HUMANITIES

Dr Astrid Ensslin, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities,School of Creative Studies and Media

Dr Astrid Ensslin’s specialist areas of interest are videogamesand virtual worlds; digital fiction; semiotics and discourseanalysis. She is currently working on publishing books onanalysing digital fiction and literary videogames; and on thelanguage of gaming.

“The School of Creative Studies and Media is keen onproviding access to cutting-edge facilities in creative media,including the latest gaming technologies (consoles andmobile devices). The School has a special focus on creative

technologies and a wide range of creative subjects, bringing together practitioners andscholars. Students gain access to my scholarly experience, resources and networks. Theymeet with me on a regular basis to discuss ideas and obtain feedback on their work, andthey are directly involved in my teaching and research projects, including editorial work onthe Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. The School’s diversity of subjects and interestsacross creative industries, its national and international excellence in teaching and researchand its friendly, dynamic atmosphere make it a great place for postgraduate study. TheSchool has a vibrant postgraduate student community with wonderful networking facilitiesfor taught and research postgraduates.”


School of Creative Studies and Media

About the SchoolThe School of Creative Studies and Media(SCSM) offers degrees across a wide rangeof creative arts, including film, journalism,media, digital and interactive media,professional writing and theatre. All of ourcourses combine the practical and thetheoretical, ensuring that our studentsgraduate with a comprehensive knowledgeof their subject area.

A distinct feature which makes the Schoolexceptional is the way in which studentsfrom the various disciplines are encouragedto interact with, and learn from, each other.For example, students from screenwriting,theatre and media practice courses oftenwork together to produce practical pieces ofwork. Our course structure is extremelyflexible, and allows students to choosemodules from outside their specialiseddisciplines.

The study environment at Bangor couldn’tbe better for studying at postgraduate level.You will be joining a vibrant postgraduatecommunity and a School with significantexperience in teaching the creativeindustries at postgraduate level. In recentyears, our postgraduate students have wonnumerous awards and scholarships andfound academic and industry employmentat such prestigious institutions as the BBCand in the entertainment software sector.

Staff and facilitiesOur staff include both highly regardedacademics and acclaimed creativepractitioners, with strong regional, nationaland international links in the private andpublic sector. Academic staff specialise indiverse research areas such as East Asianmedia, vertical dance, technology anddiscourse, Jewish film, digital advertising,journalism, politics and risk, digital fiction,videogames and virtual worlds, livetelevision, documentary film making,adaptation studies and comics. Staffexpertise is matched by our state-of-the-art purpose built facilities.

SCSM facilities reflect the multidisciplinarynature of the School. As well as broadcastquality TV and radio equipment, the Schoolhas dedicated spaces for those studyinggames, digital media, journalism andwriting, as well as a theatre and digitalcinema. All of these facilities are gatheredtogether in the John Phillips Hall – SCSM'shome – situated on the shore of the MenaiStrait.

Academic areas covered within the SchoolThe Masters degrees in the School offer youa blend of taught modules and personalsupervision, allowing you both to pursueyour own area of interest and draw uponthe wide-ranging expertise of members ofstaff in the School, all within a structuredframework. The MAs also allow you topursue a blend of theoretical/critical andcreative-practice work.

PhD/MPhil study is available in subjectsacross the whole spectrum of the CreativeIndustries, with potential research orpractice-led research specialisms in suchareas as: Professional Writing, Film and/orMedia Studies, New Media, Drama,Communications and related fields.

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COURSE LIST:

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

MSc• International Media Management

(with Business/Law)*

MRes• Film and Visual Culture*

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

* new course – subject to validation

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 388560E-mail: [email protected]/media


About the SchoolThe School of English has been an integralpart of Bangor University since theUniversity opened its doors in 1884. Ourlong history, strong tradition and wealth ofexperience are reflected in our expertise atpostgraduate level, and complemented by arange of courses that allow our students tospecialise in many areas of traditional andcontemporary study. Our academic staffincludes some of the world’s foremostauthorities on Milton, Arthurian Literature,Herbert, early modern literature, the historyof the book and Welsh writing in English,and all teaching staff in the School aresuccessful poets, authors, critics ornovelists in their own right.

The School offers an engaging andsupportive environment for postgraduatestudy, focusing on small group teaching andone-to-one supervision. Postgraduatestudents work closely with academic staffin a research community that encouragesinterdisciplinary exchange and activity. OurMasters and PhD students are part of alively Graduate School within the College ofArts and Humanities, which providesopportunities for productive exchangeacross its constituent Schools anddisciplines.

Research activities initiated and run by ourstudents include the annual postgraduateconference in medieval studies andmedievalism, the staff and postgraduatestudents writing workshop, regular poetryreadings, and the online postgraduatejournal.

Overview of the academic areascovered within the School Our expertise lies in five key areas: latemedieval and early modern literature,history of the book, Welsh writing in English,contemporary literature and creativewriting, and film. Two research centresfacilitate research in these areas: theInstitute for Medieval and Early ModernStudies (IMEMS), a collaborative researchinstitute between Bangor University andAberystwyth University, focusing onresearch activities in the pre-1800 period,while the R. S. Thomas Centre fosters newwork in this area of study, particularlythrough an engagement with primarysource materials from the R. S. Thomasarchives, acquired by Bangor University inrecent years. Other areas of particularstrength are Arthurian studies (drawing onlibrary resources, as well as excellence inteaching and research over the last fortyyears), Milton, rhetoric and the literature ofargument, medieval and early modernwomen’s writing and early modern drama,Shakespeare, and creative writing, with ateam including award-winning poets andnovelists. Bangor has one of the longesthistories of teaching creative writing in the

UK and has pioneered the creative-criticalinterface that has allowed our graduates toexcel in writing and publishing work. A number of members of staff haveinterests in gender approaches to literature,while we have specialists in early modernrhetoric, modern drama (Mamet) andexperimental writing.

In addition to the training in research skillsthat you will obtain at Masters level, we alsooffer specialist training in palaeography andcodicology (medieval and early modernmanuscripts, in Middle English, MiddleWelsh, Anglo Norman and Latin). Thisscheme, started in 2005, continues toattract students from across Wales and theUK.

Staff and facilitiesThe interests of our staff extend from themedieval period to the twenty-first centuryand look beyond the UK to the excitinginternational landscapes of literatures inEnglish. Our staff are all enthusiasticresearchers and teachers and cometogether in the introductory postgraduatecourses to pass on their invaluableknowledge and expertise.

The library holdings have been carefullydeveloped to match the School’s researchinterests. We have major holdings ofscholarly editions and critical texts in thefields of Arthurian literature, the earlymodern period (being particularly strong inthe areas of Milton, Shakespeare, and earlymodern radical writers), and of WelshWriting in English, particularly R. S. Thomas.The library holdings also include facilitiessuch as the usual research packages,including direct access to articles in JStorand all journals published by Oxford,Cambridge, and Wiley-Blackwell Presses,and to all published canonical texts throughLION; a subscription to Early English BooksOnline (giving access to every bookpublished between 1475 and 1740) andmicrofilms of the Thomason tracts,scholarly editions of E. M. Forster and D. H.Lawrence, and CD ROMs of the Brontës andVirginia Woolf.

School of English

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: : +44 (0) 1248 382102E-mail: [email protected]/english

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

STAFF PROFILE

Prof Tony Brown, Professor of English, Co-Director R.S. Thomas Study Centre, Schoolof English

Professor Tony Brown’s specialist areas ofinterest are Welsh writing in English(especially R.S. Thomas); Twentieth-centuryEnglish Literature (especially E.M. Forster);Twentieth-century American Literature.

“With my co-director of the R.S. ThomasStudy centre, I am completing a selection ofthe ‘Uncollected R.S. Thomas’, i.e. the poemswhich Thomas published in journals,magazines and small press editions whichwere not included in one of his collections.A selection of the 160 poems we haveidentified will be published in time for thecentenary of Thomas’s birth in 2013.

I am also currently working on a monographfor the University of Wales Press, entitledEx-centric Voices: A Study of the English-language Short Story in Wales. This will bethe first book-length study of a genre whichis, after poetry, the most important genre inthe Anglophone literature of Wales.

I have supervised PhDs on R.S. Thomas, aswell as on other aspects of Welsh writing inEnglish (including Dylan Thomas), the fictionof Graham Greene, and the short stories ofThomas Hardy to name a few. The expertiseand dedication of staff, and the detailedways in which they bring that expertise tofocus on the work of postgraduate studentsat MA and doctoral level, makes the Schoolof English at Bangor an ideal place to study.”

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School of History and Welsh History

About the SchoolHistory has been taught at Bangor since theUniversity was established in 1884 andArchaeology has been taught here since1960. The School is located in the historicalcentre of the University, and the lecturerooms, arts library and archives are allclose by. The School has an excellentreputation for teaching and research over awide area, extending chronologically fromprehistory to the present.

Staff and FacilitiesWith 18 teaching staff, the School hasparticular strength in Welsh history andCeltic archaeology. The library offersexcellent resources in these fields, includinga comprehensive collection of journals andnewspapers, collections from publishedsources, and a wide range of books whichdeal with all aspects of Wales’s past. Thereis also a substantial collection of rare books.The University Archives have the largestarchive collection in Wales after the NationalLibrary, and are home to a wealth ofmanuscripts dating from the middle ages tothe present – varying from the substantialcollections of the Mostyn and Penrhynestates to the papers of modern andcontemporary politicians, literary figuresand scholars as Kate Roberts, thepioneering socialist David Roberts and thehistorian John Edward Lloyd.

Equally, almost half the academic staff inthe School have a major interest in Welshhistory – from the age of the Welsh princesto devolution, and also includingspecialisms in early modern religious,social, economic and cultural history, thehistory of estates and rural society in thenineteenth century, and Welshhistoriography (i.e. the history of writingWelsh history). You will therefore be taughtby those who are actively researching andpublishing in the areas in which you arestudying.

Archaeologists take advantage of Bangor’slocation in an area which has a wide rangeof archaeological monuments – prehistorictombs and stone circles, Roman forts,medieval castles (including the WorldHeritage Sites of Beaumaris, Caernarfonand Conwy), and the remains of theindustrial revolution. The research interestsof the archaeology staff include the earlyprehistory of Britain and Ireland, the CelticIron Age in Europe and Britain, the WesternAtlantic Seaboard, Wales and Ireland in theearly middle ages, and the history ofarchaeology. Several members of staff havefield projects in Wales and beyond.

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382144E-mail: [email protected]/history

COURSE LIST:

MA/Diploma• Celtic Archaeology• History • Medieval Studies • Welsh History

PhD/MPhil• Archaeology• Heritage• History • Welsh History

Prof Tony Claydon, Professor of Early Modern History,School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology and Headof the College of Arts and Humanities

ProfessorTony Claydon’s specialist areas of interest are thepolitics, religion and national identity of people in late StuartBritain. He is currently working on a series of related articleson the presentation of politicians as celebrities in the lateStuart press; the construction and understanding of time innewspapers under Queen Anne; sermons as propaganda; andthe print debate over foreign policy.

“We have a collection of specialists in my period acrossdisciplines - this has, for instance, allowed us to organise what has become the world'sleading regular conference on the history and literature of the Restoration period (1660-1689) in Britain and Ireland. This sort of close interdisciplinary working extends outside myperiod as well: for example, as I wrote my recent article on perceptions of time in the press Ihad really productive discussions with colleagues from linguistics, English literature, mediastudies, and psychology.

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

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

The centralised Arts and Humanities Graduate School ensures students have the richinterdisciplinary experience I have enjoyed in my research; and it supplements the moresubject-based support provided by the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology.This includes a strong seminar programme; and a close and inclusive atmosphere whichmakes MA students feel welcome, and which rapidly integrates PhD students into theacademic team.”

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Overview of the academic areas coveredwithin the SchoolIn the field of History and Welsh Historythere are research strengths in thefollowing areas:• Medieval: the Anglo-Norman world; the

history of women in the Middle Ages;religion, society and culture.

• The early modern period: religion, nationalidentity and political rhetoric in Englandand Wales during the late Stuart era.

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

In the field of Archaeology there areresearch 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, Celticarchaeology.

In the field of Heritage there are researchstrengths in the following areas:• Heritage management: national and

international, public archaeology.


Prof Vyv Evans, Professor of Linguistics,Head of School of Linguistics and EnglishLanguage, and Director of GraduateStudies

“My research relates to CognitiveLinguistics, an approach to language andmind which places central importance onmeaning, the role of cognition and theembodiment of experience. I specialise incognitive semantics, particularly knowledgerepresentation, lexical structure, therelationship between lexical structure andknowledge representation, and figurativelanguage and abstract thought. My researchhas focused on investigating spatial andtemporal language and cognition, and thenature of the linguistic and conceptualresources that we as humans marshal inservice of meaning construction.

The current theme of my research is toinvestigate the intersection between thelinguistic and conceptual systems thatsubserve linguistically-mediated meaningconstruction. This will develop in a book-length treatment: How Words Mean, whichdevelops the Theory of Lexical Concepts andCognitive Models, also known as LCCMTheory. I am currently working on a mono-graph Time in Language and Cognition, anda general audience book A Window on theMind.

The School of Linguistics and English Language is the onlydepartment of Linguistics in the UK that specialises inCognitive Linguistics, the area that I conduct research in.Moreover, Cognitive Linguistics is an inherentlyinterdisciplinary research enterprise, involving work increativity, the mind, cognitive and social science as well asthe Humanities. The interdisciplinary nature of researchactivities which cross number of Schools and Colleges atthe University make it the ideal venue to conduct the type ofresearch I carry out.

I teach on the MA in Cognitive Linguistics. My researchinforms the modules I deliver on this MA programme. Thismeans that students are exposed to the very latestresearch. I also supervise research students in areasincluding creativity, abstract thought, meaning constructionand conceptual structure. Students are immersed in themost up-to-date findings and practices in the field, andhence are well-placed to develop innovative and rigorousresearch agendas.

The School of Linguistics and English Language is relativelysmall and very friendly. Staff get to know students asindividuals. There is also a strong and vibrant researchculture in the School with excellent links with other Schools,Colleges and Research Centres, including ModernLanguage, Psychology, Education and the BilingualismResearch Centre. Postgraduates have a dedicated fully-equipped computer lab, and actively participate in researchand social events in the School.”

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School of Linguistics and English Language

About the SchoolThe School of Linguistics and EnglishLanguage was established in 1960, makingit one of the oldest Linguistics departmentsin the UK. The School provides a vibrantteaching and research environment, and isunique in the UK and internationally interms of the areas of teaching andsupervision that it offers. Students aretaught and supervised by staff, all of whomare active researchers. Many of the staff inthe School are recognised as internationalleaders in their fields of expertise.

Postgraduate programmes in the Schoolcover a wide range of theoretical andapplied areas. While each MA coursefeatures compulsory training components,there are a wide range of option modulesavailable. Students are supported in theirlearning by lectures, seminars and smallertutorial groups, and are assessed in a rangeof ways, including research reports, andpresentations. Learning is supported by avirtual BlackBoard system, which features alibrary of electronic reading resources thatcan be downloaded, discussion forums andlecture slideshows and other handouts. MAstudents progress through a taughtcomponent, comprising a range ofcompulsory and option modules, beforeembarking on a significant individualresearch project. This culminates in a20,000 word dissertation, and is supportedthrough one-on-one tutorials by asupervisor.

PhD study is supported by regular tutorialswith a supervisor, as well as a secondsupervisor who has relevant expertise.Students are also support by a taughtresearch training and developmentprogramme, and can also take subject-specific modules from the wide-range ofpostgraduate modules available through theSchool’s taught programme. PhD studentshave an annual allowance of funds availableto them to participate in conferences, andare encouraged, as appropriate, tocontribute to and participate in the School’sResearch Seminar Series.

Strengths and expertiseThe School of Linguistics and EnglishLanguage has two research priorities, inwhich it has world-class expertise. Theseare in the areas of Bilingualism andCognitive Linguistics.

Bilingualism is the study of the wayspeakers of two (or more) languagesacquire and use their languages and howthese languages are represented in themind. Bangor University is situated in theUK’s only truly bilingual region (Welsh-English). Members of staff in the Schoolconduct research on all aspects ofbi/multilingualism, and adopt amultidisciplinary, empirically-informed

perspective. The School also spearheadedthe successful bid for a £5m BilingualismResearch Centre (2007-12), funded by theUK’s Economic and Social Science ResearchCouncil (ESRC). The Bilingualism ResearchCentre features state-of-the-art researchfacilities and a speech processinglaboratory. The School is the only academicunit in the UK to offer an MA, and a PhD inBilingualism. Moreover, the study ofBilingualism is central to the School’sLinguistics, and English Languageundergraduate curriculum.

Cognitive Linguistics is the study oflanguage that is informed by thepsychological sciences. It provides aninterdisciplinary approach which situateslanguage within the study of the mind,culture and communication. Cognitivelinguists assume that language reflectsgeneral cognitive abilities, and can bedeployed to investigate certain aspects ofthe way the mind is organised. Members ofstaff in the School conduct research onvarious aspects of language, mind, text andculture from the perspective of cognitivelinguistics. Students can also specialise incognitive linguistics at the PhD level.Cognitive linguistics provision is central tothe School’s undergraduate curriculum.

Staff and facilitiesThe School has eight members ofpermanent academic staff plus a Welshmedium Fellow. The School has threeprofessors, with expertise in aspects ofsociolinguistics, speech science andcognitive linguistics, as well as fivelecturers with expertise including speechand language disorders, to first and secondlanguage acquisition, language structureand change, sociolinguistics, forensiclinguistics, and figurative language andabstract thought. In addition, the School isproud to have David Crystal as its HonoraryProfessor, who spends a full day in theSchool each year giving a series of lectureson a range of language-related topics. Staffin the School conduct research on a widerange of languages including English,French, Portuguese, German, Italian,Spanish, Greek, Lombard, Dutch and Welsh.

The School features a range of learningfacilities including a computer laboratoryreserved for the School’s postgraduatestudents, an extensive collection of bookson Linguistics and English Languagemaintained by the Bangor LinguisticsSociety (a student run society), and aphonetics laboratory which includesrecording, speech analysis and audiofacilities.

Overview of the academic areas coveredwithin the SchoolIn terms of taught provision, the Schooloffers an exciting array of taughtprogrammes covering all aspects ofbilingualism, human communication,linguistics and cognitive linguistics.Introductory modules cover aspects ofmeaning, grammar, and sound, as well asdealing with research methods. Advancedmodules relate to a broad range of topicsincluding grammatical systems, metaphorand thought, aspects of bilingualism,aspects of language acquisition andprocessing, aspects of sociolinguistics andculture, cross-linguistic surveys in domainssuch as space and time, and many otherareas.

The School currently offers PhD supervisionin a wide range of areas, including languageacquisition and change, forensic linguistics,cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis,sociolinguistics, bilingualism, speechprocessing and acquisition, meaning andgrammar, language processing, and speechand language disorders.

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382130E-mail: [email protected]/linguistics

COURSE LIST:

MA• Bilingualism• Cognitive Linguistics• Linguistics

PhD/MPhil• Bilingualism• Linguistics


School of Modern Languages

About the SchoolThe teaching of Modern Languages hasfeatured in the University curriculum atBangor ever since what was then theUniversity College of North Wales welcomedits first students in 1884. Our work is basedon this solid and continuous tradition andwe embrace and promote the best of whattechnology has to offer the languagelearner. Our work has been recognised onthe national and international stages.

We offer one of the UK's broadest and mostflexible ranges of degree courses in French,German, Italian, and Spanish - plus manycombinations with other subjects. We alsoprovide modules which allow all studentswithin the University the opportunity todevelop their language skills throughouttheir time at Bangor.

The School of Modern Languages offerspostgraduate research supervision in avariety of areas and languages (French,German, Italian, Spanish, Galician, Catalan,Mandarin) in a friendly and vibrantenvironment. The School also hosts theCentre for Galician Studies in Wales and hasclose links with organisations all over theUK, Europe and the Far East.

We hold a regular Research Forum with avariety of guest speakers as well as regularevents aimed specifically at fostering theresearch skills of our postgraduatestudents.

There is a lively and expandingpostgraduate community within the School,and students work in a close-knit andsupportive environment.

Staff and facilitiesAt Bangor, we boast excellent researchsupport facilities including dedicated workstations and a broad range of media andlibrary resources.

Depending on the chosen research area,students will be assigned one or twosupervisors and are guaranteed full accessto computing facilities, library provision, andall departmental resources including thefilm library and the Centre for GalicianStudies library. You will be supervised by anenthusiastic and experienced team ofacademics who will encourage you to attendinternational conferences and publish yourresearch.

Overview of the academic areas coveredwithin the SchoolThe School currently offers both taughtpostgraduate degrees and research-basedpostgraduate degrees covering a broadrange of specialist and interdisciplinaryareas. Translation Studies, Iberian Studies(including Catalan and Galician), Germanand Austrian Studies (with specificexpertise on the post-1945 period), ItalianStudies, Film Studies, Francophone Studies(both the 19th-century and contemporaryperiod) and Comparative Literature.

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382118E-mail: [email protected]/ml

COURSE LIST:

MA• European Languages and Cultures• Translation Studies

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

PhD/MPhil by Practice • Translation Studies

STAFF PROFILE

Dr Helen Abbot, Lecturer in French, Schoolof Modern Languages

“I studied for my first degree in French andItalian at Christ’s College, Cambridge, andafter a short spell working as an investmentbanking analyst in the city, I returned toacademia. During 2002-3, I studied for anMA in the French department at King’sCollege London, working on authors asvaried as Montaigne, Boileau, andBaudelaire.

I came to Bangor in September 2006following the completion of my PhD atKing’s entitled ‘The Aesthetics of Voice in theworks of Baudelaire and Mallarmé’,supervised by Prof. Anne Green, which hasnow been published as a monograph withAshgate. For a period of research leave in2010-2011, I was awarded a VisitingFellowship at the Institute of Germanic andRomance Studies (University of London) andan AHRC Early Career Fellowship in order toresearch my new monograph on textual andmusical re-workings of Baudelaire’s ‘LaMort des amants’, following on from aBritish Academy small research grant in2008.

My postgraduate research (2002-2006) wasalso funded by the AHRC, and during mytime in London I taught French languageand literature at King’s, and Italian languageat Roehampton University. I am also aclassically-trained soprano, and regularlygive solo and consort recitals.”


School of Music

About the SchoolThe School of Music has a lively andstimulating postgraduate culture, with alively community of taught and researchpostgraduates studying a wide range ofareas. The School is small enough forstudents to feel a real sense of belonging,but large enough to offer excitingopportunities for collaborative work. Wehave a long tradition of academicexcellence, with 70% of our work rated 3*(internationally excellent) or 4* (worldleading) in the 2008 Research Assessmentexercise, confirming our status as one of theUK's leading research universities. TheSchool of Music was also awarded an'Excellent' rating for the quality of teaching.

Our concert series is one of the mostextensive and varied of any Britishuniversity. It includes regular concerts byresident ensembles (such as the AllegriQuartet and the Orlando Consort whosemembers also give workshops and masterclasses) and Electroacoustic Wales; afurther high point of the season is theannual Bangor New Music Festival. The BBCNational Orchestra of Wales also visits twicea year, and we have links with the WelshNational Opera.

Strengths and expertiseWithin composition, outstanding specialistareas are electroacoustic composition andcomposition for film. Musicology focusesaround three world-leading ResearchCentres: the Centre for Research in EarlyMusic (CREaM), which in turn forms part ofthe interdisciplinary Institute of Medievaland Early Modern Studies (IMEMS); theCentre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies(CAWMS); and the International Centre forSacred Music Studies (ICSMuS). Otherspecialisms include editorial musicologyand music of the twentieth and twenty-firstcenturies.

Staff and facilitiesOur staff, together with graduate teachingassistants and more than 30 instrumentaland vocal teachers, allow us to teach withinour various research specialisms, and coveran exceptionally wide range of subjectmatter. All of our staff have internationalresearch profiles which feeds directly intothe postgraduate teaching; students profitfrom this through regular one-on-onetutorials and/or teaching in small groups. Astrong sense of support and mutualinteraction is encouraged through ourfortnightly research seminars.

Our excellent facilities include state-of-the-art electroacoustic studios equipped tointernational standards for recording,research and composition; a music librarywith over 3,000 CDs, 20,000 scores and anextensive video and DVD collection, with afully-equipped listening and video/DVD-viewing room; a specialist Archive ofTraditional Welsh Music; our very ownbuilding with teaching rooms, rehearsalspace, and a number of individual practicerooms, full complement of pianos,harpsichords, organs, harps andpercussion; a collection of over 300 worldinstruments. The University also has 2 fineconcert halls.

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382181E-mail: [email protected]/music

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

Prof Thomas Schmidt-Beste,Professor of Music, Head of School Music

Prof Schmidt-Bests’s research interests aremusicology, specifically music before 1600,sources studies, music editing andMendelssohn.

“I am currently working on an edition ofFelix Mendelssohn's incidental music toSophocles' play 'Antigone' for the newcomplete edition of Mendelssohn's works,and I am leading a major AHRC-fundedresearch project on 'The Production andReading of Music Sources, 1480-1530'.

Bangor is one of the few places in the UKwhere a long tradition of research in EarlyMusic and in Source Studies / MusicalEditing is still being upheld, and I have anumber of colleagues in these areas (andalso outside of the department in relevantrelated fields) with whom I can collaborate.Also, Bangor has a wonderful sense ofcommunity, both amongst staff andbetween staff and students.”

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School of Welsh

About the SchoolThe survival of Welsh in the modern era –both as a living language and a dynamicliterary medium – is a truly remarkablestory. As Wales gradually evolves into avibrant bilingual nation, there has neverbeen a more exciting time to study thelanguage and its literature at postgraduatelevel. Bangor University is located in an areawhere 69% of the population is able tospeak Welsh. No other university offerssuch a unique linguistic environment tostudy a living Celtic language and itsliterature.

Bangor University’s contribution to thegrowth of modern Welsh scholarship andlearning has been immense. It was herethat John Morris-Jones compiled hismonumental Welsh Grammar (1913), whichforms the basis of the modern literarylanguage. Between the 1930s and 1960s, itwas at Bangor that Ifor Williams producedthe first modern scholarly editions of theearliest Welsh poetry. Bangor also had aninstrumental role in the production of threeof the outstanding reference works ofcontemporary Wales, The Welsh AcademyEnglish-Welsh Dictionary (1995), Dictionaryof the Place-Names of Wales (2007), and theWelsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales(2008). At present, the School of Welsh hasexpertise in all of the major fields of Welshliterature, and among its staff are some ofcontemporary Wales’s leading writers andcreative practitioners.

Staff and facilities Our staff are leading international expertsin their respective fields of study. Theirpublications encompass both the medievalperiod and the literature of Wales in morerecent times. The School has expertise in allof the major fields of Welsh literature, andamong our staff are some of contemporaryWales’s leading writers and creativepractitioners.

Students can take advantage of theexcellent IT Services on offer at theUniversity together with an extensivecollection of books and journals in ourLibrary and Archives Service. Many of thejournals are available online in full-textformat and we also have databases, videosand CDs; micro material; a wonderfulmanuscript collection and a web-basedcatalogue to access e-books, e-journals,past exam papers, subject guides and otherlearning resources.

Overview of the academic areas coveredwithin the SchoolIf you have experience of studying literatureor comparative literature at undergraduatelevel, we would be interested in hearingfrom you. Wales has an unbroken literarytradition which extends back to suchmedieval highlights as the tales of theMabinogion (which include the WelshArthurian legends), the heroic poetry of theBook of Aneirin and the love and naturepoetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym. During thetwentieth century, writers such as T. GwynnJones, Saunders Lewis, Kate Roberts andT.H. Parry-Williams gave a dynamic newdirection to the literature of Wales.

You may also have an interest in the socialhistory of minority languages and themanner of their survival in the modernworld. How did Welsh survive the industrialrevolution? What was the fate of the Welshdiaspora in north America? What is theconnection between Welsh and the growthof nationalism in modern Wales? If you areintrigued by such questions, a postgraduatecourse at the School of Welsh at Bangor isfor you!

The great merit of our MA course is itsflexibility and the fact that it allows a freechoice of topics within the broadparameters of the discipline. If, for example,you are primarily interested in medievalliterature, your course will be structuredaccordingly. If, on the other hand, you wishto undertake a study of modern Welshliterature, or, if you wish to pursue the socialhistory of Welsh, our MA course will be ableto accommodate your academic interests.

Research for the degree of MPhil or PhDmay be conducted in the main fields ofWelsh literature from the medieval period tothe present, e.g. early court poetry, Welshsaga poetry, the tales of the Mabinogion,Dafydd ap Gwilym, the poets of the Welshgentry, literature and society 1500-1900, theWelsh diaspora and Welsh culture of northAmerica, the modern Welsh novel, modernWelsh poetry, the modern Welsh theatre.

For those students who have no knowledgeof Welsh prior to enrolment, the Schoolworks in close partnership with theUniversity’s Welsh for Adults Unit, whichhas a host of courses and opportunities forstudents wishing to learn the language.Your language tuition needs will beassessed as part of the application process.Before embarking on your postgraduatecourse, you may well decide to takeadvantage of the Welsh for Adults Unit’sintensive three-week summer school forbeginners.

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382240E-mail: [email protected]/ysgolygymraeg

COURSE LIST:

MA/Diploma• Cymraeg/Welsh• The Celts

PhD/MPhil• Astudiaethau Celtaidd/Celtic Studies• Cymraeg/Welsh

Please note: the courses above are Welsh-medium courses. For those who have noknowledge of Welsh prior to enrolment, theSchool works closely with the University’sWelsh for Adults Unit. Your language tuitionneeds will be assessed as part of theapplication process.

Novels written by two lecturers in theSchool of Welsh were selected for thelong list of the Wales Book of the Year2011 competition.

Gwenddydd, by Dr Jerry Hunter tells theharrowing story of a soldier’s relation-ship with his sister, who is a nurse, andthe horror of their experiences during theSecond World War. “With war stillplaguing our world, we often hear aboutthe effects of post-traumatic stressdisorder on the lives of soldiers andformer soldiers,” says Dr Hunter. “Iwanted to highlight the perennial aspectof that story by setting it in a recent – ormore recent – time.”

Caersaint, which went on to win one ofthe four runner-up prizes, is a popularhumorous novel by Dr Angharad Price.Her love for the town of Caernarfon wasthe inspiration behind the novel whichfollows the ups and downs of the maincharacter, Jaman Jones.

“When students come to Bangor to studyWelsh they have the opportunity to betaught by some of Wales' leadingwriters,” says Professor Peredur Lynch,Head of the School of Welsh. “Theselatest novels by Angharad Price andJerry Hunter are indicative of theextraordinary creative energy that wecurrently have in the School of Welsh.Their success also demonstrates thatBangor is at the forefront ofcontemporary literature.”

DID YOU KNOW...


About the College The College of Education and Lifelong Learning boasts excellentpostgraduate opportunities for those seeking to enhance their careerprospects whilst being supported by an excellent team of high profileacademic staff specialising in a variety of subject areas.

Teaching excellence and research is central to the College. Whether you arethinking of taking a taught Masters or a research degree, either as a part-time or full-time option, you will study with leading specialists, with thosewho are passionate about their field and alongside knowledgeable expertswho write and contribute to books and journal articles. We pride ourselveson 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 thatits research excellence was recognised in the most recent governmentResearch Assessment Exercise results, with half of its work classed as ofinternational quality, and 10% seen as world-leading. In Wales, it is the topranked Education institution. Students can be sure of first-class supervisionand teaching from those at the forefront of research in their field.

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

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

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

The College has a long tradition of welcoming international students from abroad range of diverse backgrounds. Established links exist with HEIs inmany European countries particularly Finland, Spain, Austria, and theNetherlands, while co-operation exists with institutions in sub-saharanAfrica, north America and Asia.

Centres of ExcellenceThe following centres are based within the College ofEducation and Lifelong Learning:

• ESRC Centre for Research on BilingualismTogether with the Schools of Psychology and Linguistics,the College leads a £5 million ESRC Bilingualism Centre atBangor. To build on this considerable success, the Collegeis expanding its research activity partly by adding morepostgraduate researchers to its research teams.

• The North and Mid-Wales Centre of Teacher Education The North and Mid-Wales Centre of Teacher Education is aCentre of excellence in Initial Teacher Education andTraining. The Centre is a partnership between Aberystwythand Bangor Universities. It offers a unique and vibrantexperience for those wishing to pursue a career inteaching. The Centre provides the best possible start fortrainee teachers in primary and secondary teaching.

• World Education CentreAims to promote education for sustainable developmentand global citizenship in Wales.

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

COLLEGE OF EDUCATIONAND LIFELONG LEARNING


“Studying at Bangor was a choice thatbecame evident as my son has alsoundertaken a graduate course here atBangor University. Moreover I found theoverall environment here at Bangorconducive to learning.

As I was previously involved in theprofession of teaching, I was awaiting theopportunity to further my academic skills inthis regard and therefore decided to takethis course that would not only further myunderstanding of the field of education butwould enable me to enhance my teachingskills within this field.

The course comprised four taught modulesthat covered areas of Bilingualism andBilingual education, TESOL, WorldCitizenship and Research methods. In a wayI am really grateful to the course directorand our tutors for selecting these modulesas they have allowed us to develop aninsight into different disciplines that can befurther explored. In other words thestudents have been afforded an opportunitythrough this academic experience tobroaden their horizons.

For my Masters project both the Researchmethods and the Bilingual educationmodules although challenging, haveallowed me to explore the bilingual attitudesand perspectives of the Pakistani Pashtuncommunity towards their heritage languagewhilst residing in a Welsh/ English societysuch as Bangor. This experience in itself hasenabled me to try to fill a small gap in anongoing process of researching linguisticminorities of the UK.

Further education has many advantages. Asmentioned earlier, it broadens one’shorizons allowing one to be able to reachone’s full potential. It definitely boosts selfconfidence and helps in deciding as to howa future career can be attained in the field ofeducation and learning.

I feel immensely blessed with the tutors Ihad during this course. They were not onlyacademically supportive but their mentoringskills helped me overcome the stresses Iwas experiencing during this time. Theiroverall encouraging attitude made thiscourse achievable.”

FRIHA YASMEEN KHAN from Anglesey,studying an MA Education Studies

The content of the taught elements of theMA and EdD programmes reflect theexpertise and experience of staff within theSchool. A wide variety of modules are onoffer and include Bilingual Education,Intercultural Education, TESOL,Inclusion/Special Educational Needs,Diversity in Education, Counselling, EarlyYears Education, Children’s Rights, GlobalEducation and Educational Leadership. Youwill also receive training in ResearchMethods.

The School offers full and part-time PhD,MPhil and EdD research supervision in awide range of Educational areas focusing onthe research expertise within the Schoolwhich include Bilingualism/BilingualEducation, Inclusion/Special EducationalNeeds, Intercultural Education and GlobalCitizenship and Professional Aspects ofTeaching in Schools and in HigherEducation.


School of Education

About the SchoolThe School of Education has an establishedreputation in the field of teacher training.The School also has well-establishedpartnerships with Primary and Secondaryschools to provide varied and supportivetraining environments. Under the guidanceof enthusiastic staff, the School alsoprovides a wide range of other progressivecourses leading to a range of postgraduatequalifications. You can pursue coursesthrough the medium of Welsh or English orbilingually. In the European context thisbilingual expertise gives an excitingdimension to all our courses and providesstudents with opportunities to developEuropean links.

The School has a friendly atmosphere andstudents from all regions and differentbackgrounds quickly settle in. We offer alively and enriching working and socialenvironment with unrivalled resources foryour study.

The School is regularly involved in muchdevelopmental work, including the field ofWelsh-medium education.

Staff and facilities To help you in your studies we provide arange of learning resources supported byexperienced staff. In our Education Librarywe have an extensive collection of booksand journals and many of the journals areavailable on-line in full-text format. We alsohave computer labs on site and dedicatedpostgraduate study rooms for full-timestudents where they can study, holdseminars and gather to discuss theirresearch in a supported learningenvironment.

Overview of the academic areas coveredwithin the SchoolFor almost forty years, Bangor has offered aflexible, part-time, modular Master ofArts/Master of Education which meets boththe professional and the personal needs ofteachers, health workers, social care staffand other professionals.

Our part-time postgraduate courses areaimed both at working people looking forcareer developments, and at those wishingto study a subject at a more advanced level.When reviewing applications, we takeprofessional and personal experience intoaccount, and consider all students on merit.

Due to our excellent reputation in EducationStudies, we now offer the part-time MA inSingapore and we also offer a full time MAand EdD programmes in Bangor.

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383012E-mail: [email protected]/education

COURSE LIST:

Postgraduate Certificatein 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

Dr Anwei Feng, Reader in Education,School of Education

Dr Anwei Feng holds an MA degree inapplied linguistics and a PhD in education.He has had teaching and researchexperience in tertiary institutions in manycountries such as China, Hong Kong,Singapore as well as the UK. He is currentlya Reader in Education in the School ofEducation and Lifelong Learning and directsthe graduate programmes within theSchool. He is also Senior Research Fellow inthe ESRC Centre for Research onBilingualism in Theory and Practice.

Dr Feng teaches and researches in manyareas in education, with particular interestsin intercultural studies in education,bilingualism and bilingual education,international and comparative education,and minority language education. Hesupervises PhD and Education Doctoratestudents whose thesis topics include‘intercultural team teaching’, ‘interculturaleducation in multicultural societies’,‘ethnographic studies of third-culture kids ininternational schools’, ‘bilingual educationfor pre-schools’, and ‘mass media,intercultural competence and TESOL’, fordifferent contexts.

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School of Lifelong Learning

About the SchoolThe School of Lifelong Learning provideshigh quality and flexible part-timeeducational opportunities across northWales - from individual modules to part-time undergraduate and Masters levelstudy. Our part-time postgraduate coursesare aimed both at working people lookingfor career developments, and at thosewishing to study a subject at a moreadvanced level. When reviewingapplications, we take professional andpersonal experience into account, andconsider all students on merit.

The School is involved in a wide range ofprojects related to various aspects oflifelong learning. Our main areas of interestare:

• Rural community development • Equality and diversity issues, especially

gender• Global citizenship• New technologies and lifelong learning

Many of our projects complement ourteaching activity enabling us to develop newlearning materials, and to extend ouractivities to reach a wider range of learnersacross north Wales. Most of our projectsalso have a significant research andevaluation component. We frequently workin partnership with other organisations,including those from other Europeancountries, and we currently have contactswith organisations in the Czech Republic,Spain, France, Germany, Portugal andIreland.

Overview of the academic areas coveredwithin the SchoolThe Women's Studies programme has beentaught at Bangor since 1994 and iscurrently the only course of its kind inWales. Over the last decade women fromacross north Wales and from many walks oflife have studied on this course.

The Community Development programmebrings together University staff from arange of disciplines and practitioner tutorsfrom across the region. Guest speakersfrom across Wales, the UK, the EU andglobal regions are invited periodically tocontribute according to their areas ofinterest and expertise.

MA Fine Art*This new MA has been developed inresponse to the successful BA (Hons) FineArt programme which is unique in Walesand the UK and has been HighlyCommended at National Level by TheUniversities Association for LifelongLearning.

Postgraduate Certificate in SubstanceMisuse Studies*This new postgraduate level programme isaimed at professionals seeking up to dateskills in this area.

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382475E-mail: [email protected]/ll

COURSE LIST:

MA/Diploma/Certificate• Community Development (part-time)• Fine Art*• Substance Misuse*• Women's Studies (part-time)

* new course - subject to validation


The College of Business, Social Sciences and Law is a forward-looking andexpanding College, bringing together three related disciplines to form aCollege with a sound research base which delivers the highest qualitycourses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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

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

Our teaching is informed by world-class inter-disciplinary research. TheCollege achieved an excellent set of results during the most recent ResearchAssessment 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 takeits first-class education and expertise to the city of London, offeringinnovative MSc and MBA degrees in Banking and Finance, as well as thegroundbreaking Chartered Banker MBA programme, in its new centre in theheart of London’s financial district.

Top researchers and senior staff within the College also teach on ourMasters programmes. This means that students will have the opportunity tostudy with and receive lecturers by academic staff who are pushing back thefrontiers of research.

The College of Business, Social Sciences and Law is committed to providingquality facilities and resources to support and promote students’ learningexperience, which includes dedicated Postgraduate study areas, withindividual workstations and networked access. The College also benefitsfrom a world-class training and conference centre, which offers part-timeexecutive and professional management training in high quality state-of-the-art teaching facilities.

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

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS,SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LAW

“The best thing about studying apostgraduate degree in Bangor’s School ofSocial Sciences is the sense of intellectualfreedom and the encouragement you aregiven to explore your own ideas.

Looking back I feel I have achieved so muchwhilst studying for my PhD at Bangor. As Iwas allowed to design my own study andgiven a large amount of freedom to developand progress in directions of my choice Ifeel that I have achieved something which istruly unique and which I have soleownership over.

I am currently working as a CriminologyLecturer and Course Leader at theUniversity of Huddersfield, and I recentlypublished a journal article and a monographbased on my thesis. Certainly theexperiences I’ve had at Bangor haveenabled me to do all this. I now plan to writea number of journal articles based on myPhD and to develop some research ideas fora research bid.”

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

“The MBA Banking and Finance is extremelywell-suited to anyone wanting to enter thefinance field. The course teaches you aboutother functions within businessorganisations and how they work together,whilst maintaining a focus on finance. Theassignments taught me to be analytical andcritical, which will definitely help in myaspirations to become an Analyst. Best ofall, the staff are very supportive and helpful,ready to help you with whatever you need.”

ZEENAT SAYED, from India, studying anMBA in Banking and Finance


Bangor Business School is ranked No1 in the UKfor Accounting, Banking and Finance Researchfollowing the most recent government researchassessment exercise [2008].

“After completing the LLM in CommercialLaw at Bangor Law School, I returned toChina to prepare for the Chinese NationalJudicial Examination. I am now a fullyqualified Chinese Lawyer with a majorInternational firm based in China. I am sograteful for everything that Bangor and theLaw School have offered me. At Bangor, Ienjoyed one of the most wonderfulexperiences of my life and I have known themost sincere and helpful people that I haveever met. Without their help and knowledge,I would not have achieved all this.”

HONGBO HEI, from China, studied an LLMin Commercial and Business Law

“After gaining my LLM atBangor, I was accepted ontoa PhD at University CollegeLondon. I have also been inNew York doing aninternship in the Office ofLegal Affairs division of theUnited Nations. All this isthanks to the Bangor LawSchool’s excellent teaching,support and enthusiasticlecturers.”

BOLANLE ADEBOLA,from Nigeria, studied anLLM Law


About the SchoolBangor Business School is one of the majorEuropean university schools for financialand banking studies offering a full range ofdisciplines from undergraduate to doctorallevel. It is currently the top Business Schoolin the UK for research in Accounting,Banking and Finance following the mostrecent Research Assessment Exercise in2008.

Students are attracted by its reputation forhigh quality and expertise, particularly inthe area of Banking and Financial Servicesin which Bangor is a leading Europeancentre which houses one of the largest PhDschools of any business school in the UK.Staff research papers and articles arepublished regularly in leading journals andtheir books published to a worldwideaudience.

Bangor Business School’s teaching andresearch have not only been highly rated byexternal agencies, but also by our studentsand the businesses that employ our formerstudents. We have a proven track record inproducing highly skilled and highlyemployable postgraduates, with the broadrange of abilities that employers requirefrom new recruits.

Internship ProgrammePostgraduate students at the BangorBusiness School are able to apply forinternships with a number of leadingbanking organisations, including a numberof well-known international banks. Throughthese placements, students are offered theopportunity to experience the world ofpractical banking at first hand. Internshipsare normally undertaken at the end of theacademic course at Bangor and details ofthe application process are supplied tostudents during the course of their studiesat Bangor.

Staff and facilitiesBangor Business School’s top researchersand senior staff who were responsible forachieving the No 1 position in the UK forAccounting, Banking and Finance research,also teach on Masters programmes. Thismeans that students will receive lecturersby academic staff who are pushing back thefrontiers of research.

During recent years, Bangor BusinessSchool staff have undertaken policy workand consultancy linked to their research fororganisations as diverse as the EuropeanCommission, World Bank, IMF, UK Treasury,European Central Bank, DeutscheBundesbank, Spanish Savings BankAssociation, as well as many other nationaland international organisations.

Bangor Business School has one of themost impressive Advisory Boards of any UKBusiness School. Membership includes topprofessionals from business, industry,government and the business school sectorwho advise the School on strategicdevelopment issues.

In addition to the scholastic research forwhich it is respected worldwide, BangorBusiness School’s bespoke ManagementCentre undertakes market-facing researchin conjunction with local businesses, as wellas providing first-class professional trainingcourses and conference facilities.

Overview of the academic areasBangor Business School’s excellent recordin postgraduate teaching is reflected in theinnovative nature of our degree prog-rammes, and the performance of ourstudents at Masters and PhD levels. BangorBusiness School established the first MA inBanking and Finance offered by any UKuniversity in 1973, and more recently wasthe first to offer MBAs in Banking andFinance and Islamic Banking and Finance.

Postgraduate students at Bangor BusinessSchool can choose between several types ofhigher degree programmes and subjects.These include taught MSc, MA and MBAdegrees in the fields of Accounting, Banking,Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance,Business, Management, Marketing,Consumer Psychology, Computer Scienceand Law. The Business School also runs ahighly successful programme for studentswho wish to study for the research degreesof MPhil or PhD.

Bangor Business School offers a numberof attractive Scholarships and Bursaries toencourage well-qualified and talentedstudents to reach their full potential.

Bangor Business School

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383023E-mail: [email protected]/business

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


Bangor Business School London CentreBangor Business School now has a centrein the city of London offering a portfolio ofspecialist MBA degrees to individuals whowish to live and study in London.

See page 52 for further details about ourLondon Centre.


Prof John Thornton,Head of Bangor Business School

John Thornton is a Professor of GlobalFinance and Head of Bangor BusinessSchool. Prior to joining the Business Schoolin 2008 he was with the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC,where he was, respectively, an AssistantDirector in the Western HemisphereDepartment, the Fiscal Affairs Department,and in the Middle East and Central AsiaDepartment. He also held posts as the IMFresident representative in Nepal and inCosta Rica.

Professor Thornton has also been a staffmember of the Economics Department ofthe Organization of Economic Developmentand Cooperation in Paris, a Vice President ofEconomics at Merrill Lynch International inLondon, and a Lecturer in Macroeconomicsat the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

“Bangor Business Schoolprovided me with a solidacademic grounding ineconomics and business. WhatI learned at Bangor I still usetoday in my position as ChiefUK Economist at DeutscheBank in London. The standardof teaching was excellent.Bangor Business School setme up for life, and has helpedme enormously in mysubsequent studies and mycareer.”

Dr George Buckley, Chief UKEconomist, Deutsche Bank,London

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About the SchoolBangor Law School is an innovative andexpanding international law school,focusing on legal systems and the legalenvironment in the UK and internationally. Our courses address contemporary issuesrelevant to the business and politicalenvironment worldwide and they will equipstudents with the knowledge and skillsrequired for operating successfully in theglobal marketplace.

The academic experience is enriched bothby a programme of regular distinguishedguest lectures and seminars and theactivities of the award-winning BangorStudents' Law Society.

Staff and facilitiesBangor Law School promotes anenvironment of learning and research. Ourteam of experienced and multilingual staffare graduates of many leading universities,and some have been previously employedas professionals within the legal sector inroles such as judge, solicitor andmagistrate. This expertise is reflected in theteaching of Masters courses, as well asextensive research activity and projectssuch as the €3.7 million ‘Winning inTendering’ Public Procurement ResearchProject.

Coupled with this rich combination ofbackgrounds, staff members’ researchreflects varied interests and expertise infields such as EU Law, Corporate FinanceLaw, Maritime Law, International Law,Commercial Law, Company Law, Admin-istrative Law, Law and Religion, Child andFamily Law, and Intellectual Property Law.Developing young professionals throughMPhil and PhD research training is centralto the School’s mission and the doctoralprogramme makes an importantcontribution to the training of futureresearchers.

Being a key School within the College ofBusiness, Social Sciences and Law enablesinter-disciplinary research with banking andfinancial studies, in which Bangor BusinessSchool has been ranked the No.1 position inthe UK for research in Accounting, Bankingand Finance. Regulation and risk, key issueswithin mainstream Banking and FinancialStudies are also an important theme withinLaw.

In order to support our students throughoutthe course of their studies, both the LawSchool and the University centrally providesa range of learning resources supported byexperienced staff.

Facilities include an extensive Law Librarywhich has benefited from substantialinvestment and is overseen by a dedicatedLaw Librarian who provides specialist

support and advice to students. It includesprinted and electronic sources that reflectcurrent teaching and research within theLaw School.

The collection includes Reference, Statutes,Law Reports, Journals, Books andPamphlets, Official Publications,Newspapers, European DocumentationCentre and Online Databases.

Overview of academic areas We offer a suite of LLM programmes andjoint MA/MBA’s reflecting the School'sexpertise and commitment to high levelpostgraduate teaching. These include arange of LLM degrees, focussing inparticular on International Commercial andBusiness Law; Criminology; InternationalLaw; Public Procurement Law and Strategyand an LLM in Law and DevolvedGovernments reflecting constitutionalchanges in the UK and elsewhere. The LawSchool also provides expert PhD and MPhilsupervision in a range of legal areas.

The Law School has joined forces withBangor Business School to offer four jointMasters degrees combining Law withBanking and Management disciplines,preparing key executives who will play acentral role in the successful managementof modern enterprises, and preparingcapable banking executives and bankinglawyers who will move into key positions inthe financial sector.

We also offer a general LLM which allowsstudents to select from a range of moduleson offer by the school.

To help students achieve their full potential,Bangor Law School offers a range ofscholarships and bursaries forpostgraduate 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 andInternational 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

Bangor Law School

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 383023E-mail: [email protected]/law

Dr Suzannah Linton, Professor of International Law, Bangor Law School

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

Professor Linton brings to Bangor a rich international background and many years ofprofessional experience with the United Nations and other global organisations. Shelectures and presents regularly around the world, engages in international researchprojects, 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 CrimesTrials for Oxford University Press, to be published in 2012. This follows her launch of theacclaimed Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials Collection at the University of Hong KongLibraries in December 2010. She is also presently engaged on another publication forOxford University Press, on the General Principles and Rules of International CriminalProcedure, along with colleagues from other universities.

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About the SchoolEstablished in 1966, the School of SocialSciences is a thriving centre for teachingand research in the fields of, Criminologyand Criminal Justice, Social Policy, SocialWork, Public Policy, Sociology and Healthand Social Care.

Our Masters degrees offer thoroughtraining in the principles and practice ofsocial research, whilst allowing students tofollow their interests through a range ofspecialised modules. We are known for thethoroughness of our teaching and our carefor students.

We also have a reputation for research ofnational and international excellence andthe products of this research are continuallyfed into our courses. Many publications andarticles by staff have internationalreputation in particular fields. The staff alsosupervise MA, MPhil and PhD students intheir own specialist areas. This means thatyou will be taught by tutors who are activelyresearching and publishing in areas you willstudy.

All of our degree schemes offer a thoroughtraining in the basic principles of socialscience, a wide choice of specialisedsubjects, training in the practice of socialresearch and preparation for a wide varietyof career opportunities.

The School of Social Sciences offersbursaries for MA and PhD students.

Strengths and expertiseThe most recent Research AssessmentExercise (RAE 2008) concluded that almostall the research submitted by the School ofSocial Sciences was worthy of internationalrecognition, and some was world leading interms of originality, significance and rigour. Research in the School of Social Scienceshas four main themes: Communities andSocial Networks; Minority Languages andCultures; Policy Evaluation Research; Crimeand Civic Society. These have provided theplatform for more focussed, collaborativeactivity based around the Schools researchcentres:• 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 EconomicResearch, Data and Methods (WISERD) hasan ambitious programme of work to helpresearchers make better use of data,develop large interdisciplinary projects,conduct research on a series of localities,and build partnerships with organisationsand local communities. The centre bringstogether social scientists from across Waleswho work together to develop a moredetailed picture of the people of Walesthrough the collection, analysis anddissemination of data in areas fromeconomic activity and growth to education,community participation, health and socialcare.

Overview of academic areas coveredwithin the SchoolWe offer a portfolio of Masters programmesreflecting the School's expertise andcommitment to high level postgraduateteaching. These include a range of MAdegrees, focussing in particular onComparative Criminology and CriminalJustice; Sociology; Language Policy andPlanning; Social Research and Social Policy;Policy Research and Evaluation;Criminology and Law and Social Work.

The Masters by Research, MPhil and PhDare higher degrees awarded on successfulcompletion of advanced training andresearch leading to a thesis. The aim of aresearch degree is to provide broadly basedsocial science training as well as specifictraining in specialised subject areas that arerelevant to the research project. Overall, thetraining provides the context and the skillsfor the student to undertake an originalinvestigation, culminating in the preparationof a thesis which represents an independentand original contribution to knowledge.

School of Social Sciences

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 383023E-mail: [email protected]/so

Prof Ian Rees Jones, Professor ofSociology and Head of School

Ian Rees Jones was appointed Professor ofSociology in 2007. Prior to coming toBangor, he was Professor of Sociology ofHealth and Illness at St George’s, Universityof London where he is now a VisitingProfessor. He also holds an HonoraryProfessorship in The Division of Medicine atUniversity College London.

Professor Jones’s research interests spanthe historical sociology of health, medicineand welfare. He is currently working onsocial change and inequalities in health,contemporary trends in lifestyle andconsumption, ageing in post-war Britain andcommunity, new technology and later lifeand social theory applied to comparativewelfare. If you are interested in undertakinga PhD in any of these fields, he would behappy to hear from you.

He is currently lead investigator on an ESRCfunded project mapping changes in socialspace and lifestyles since the 1970s usingthe British Regional Heart Study. He is alsoleading an AHRC funded review of researchon community, connectivity, place andelective belonging in later life.

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About the CentreAs one of the leading Banking and FinanceSchools in Europe, and building on its No.1*position in the UK for Accounting, Bankingand Finance research, Bangor University’sBusiness School is now delivering aportfolio of specialist MBA and MSc degreesat its centre in the City of London.

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

The Bangor Business School London Centre,which is based at the impressive BroadgateTower, a brand-new development in theheart of the banking district, enables theBusiness School to deliver its cutting edgefinancial services programmes toindividuals who wish to live and study inLondon.

LocationFrom our modern, centrally located officeswe offer a first class learning experienceand deliver courses respected byinternational employers. The London centreenables both busy executives and full-timestudents to benefit from the wealth ofknowledge and expertise that exists withinBangor Business School. Whilst executivesmay combine their busy careers withprofessional development, full-timestudents may further develop theirknowledge and skills through part-timeemployment and the Bangor BusinessSchool internship scheme.

Staff and facilities Leaders in the field of Banking and Financeresearch who teach on the degrees at theBangor campus also teach at the Londoncentre giving confidence to students thatprogrammes have similar structure, contentand the same high quality as that set at theBangor University campus.

Bangor Business School’s top researchersand senior staff who were responsible forachieving the No.1 position in the UK forAccounting, Banking and Finance research,also teach on MBA and MSc programmes inLondon. This means that students willreceive lecturers by academic staff who arepushing back the frontiers of research.

Every student will be provided with a set ofcore text books and a laptop, which providesaccess to Blackboard, Bangor University’sonline learning resource and to theUniversity Library Services’ electronicreading materials such as e-books and e-journals. Students will also have free accessto City Business Library, which is locatedwithin a short distance to Broadgate Tower,and all city of London libraries.

Each successful applicant will be con-sidered for a scholarship (valued at up to£10,000) to provide financial support forfull-time students studying at our LondonCentre.

Bangor Business SchoolLondon 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 2873E-mail: [email protected]/londonbusiness

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

“Since I graduated in Banking and Financefrom Bangor Business School I haveenjoyed a varied career in finance andgeneral management. My latest role, asChief Operating Officer at No.10 DowningStreet, demonstrates that Bangor has areputation that is widely respected both inthe City, where early in my career I workedin Banking, and in the Civil Service whovalue highly people with a broad financialbackground.”

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


LOCATED IN THE IMPRESSIVEBROADGATE TOWER AT THE HEARTOF LONDON’S FINANCIAL DISTRICT


The College of Natural Sciences is one of the leading centres in the UK forteaching and research in biology, environmental sciences and oceansciences. Our aim is to educate and train a new generation of scientistsaware of societal needs in a world-class research-led environment. Ourinternational links are extensive and our research interests extend across arange of habitats with global significance from coral reefs to the polar icecaps.

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

The College has an international research reputation in areas critical tosociety, such as research into the causes of cancer, the implications ofclimate change, the promotion of sustainable development and theconservation of biodiversity. The advantages of combining research andteaching include students being taught by scientists at the forefront of theirfield, 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 farmedterrestrial environments locally. We have first-class research and teachingfacilities including molecular biology and DNA sequencing facilities, aBotanical Garden, experimental grounds, a University-based farmingbusiness and experimental areas for forestry, as well as a state-of-the-artseagoing research vessel – the Prince Madog ship.

The Welsh Institute of Natural Resources (WINR), which incorporates theBiocomposities Centre, the Centre for Advanced Research into AgriculturalDevelopment (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, aresearch institute for the integration of environmental sciences which is apartnership venture between Bangor University and the NaturalEnvironment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH).The Centre is housed in a state-of-the-art building using energy efficiencymeasures, natural light and renewable energy technologies. The buildinghas an international reputation as an exemplar building of sustainabledesign and construction, and is one of only three buildings worldwide tohave received a commendation for its sustainable credentials.

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

COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES

“The modules I have taken, especiallyGenomes with Molecular Genetics, work inharmony with my medical qualifications andhave allowed me to appreciate thepathogenesis of medical illnesses moredeeply. The information is novel and fitsaccurately with the remit of the MSc. Thesuccess of the course is due primarily to ahigh commitment from the organisers andstaff involved in teaching the degree.”

Dr. RASHA ALI AL-KHAFAJI, fromBaghdad, studying the Medical MolecularBiology with Genetics MSc degree


“I chose to stay in Bangor because I love thecity and surrounding area, and can’t faultthe level of teaching and support providedby the academic Schools and the University.Here at Bangor we also have a thrivingpostgraduate community, with its ownforum and social club which brings togetherstudents from all academic schools. I woulddefinitely encourage more postgraduates tostudy at Bangor!”

LINDSAY PEPPIN, from Durham, studied aPhD in Wildlife Forensics

“With the Snowdonia Mountain range as abackdrop, and bordered by the Menai Strait,I chose to study at Bangor believing that thiswould be an ideal setting for environmentbased courses, and this was certainly thecase. It also equipped me with practicalskills such as using geographicalinformation software and carrying outstatistical analyses, which have enabled meto go on to work in the environmental field.”

ANNA KAYE JONES, from Flintshire (NorthWales) studying an MSc Conservation andLand Management


About the SchoolThe School of Biological Sciences offers arange of postgraduate courses and wepride ourselves on our supportive andfriendly atmosphere, the internationalstandard of our research and the highquality of our teaching.

The School is home to the North WestCancer Research Fund Institute, a centre ofexcellence for cancer research in Wales.

Staff and facilitiesSome of our plant biology teaching andresearch is carried out in the TreborthBotanic Gardens situated along the MenaiStrait which offers landscaped gardens, anda range of grassland and woodlandhabitats. The School is unusual in boastingits own Natural History Museum with alarge collection of vertebrate andinvertebrate specimens and an extensivemarine aquarium, and a new freshwateraquarium.

As a postgraduate you can study one-yeartaught Masters Degrees in MedicalMolecular Biology with Genetics, andMolecular Biology with Biotechnology. Oneyear MRes degrees, which differ from thetaught Masters programmes by placingmore emphasis on the research project, areavailable in Ecology and Natural Sciences.

Overview of the academic areasResearch degrees are available in subjectscovering the full spectrum of our researchexpertise, including molecular ecology,fisheries genetics, molecular cancerstudies, biodegradation and bioremediation,plant systems and technology, wetlandbiogeochemistry, neuroscience, animalenergetics and ecophysiology.

We receive substantial financial supportfrom the Research Councils, charities,government departments and British andoverseas industry. Our diverse interestsfacilitate a wide exchange ofinterdisciplinary ideas and techniques andpromote collaborations both within theSchool and with colleagues in institutionsand industry.

School of Biological Sciences

COURSE LIST:

MSc• Medical Molecular Biology with Genetics • Molecular Biology with Biotechnology

MRes• Ecology• Natural Sciences

PhD/MPhil• Biological Sciences

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382527E-mail:[email protected]/biology

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Dr Anil Shirsat, Senior Lecturer, School ofBiological Sciences

Dr Shirsat is a plant molecular biologist whocompleted his first degree in BiologicalSciences at the University of East Anglia inNorwich. After a brief interlude at the CardiffUniversity Medical School, he went on topursue a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology atDurham University - his PhD dissertationwas on the cloning and analysis of seedstorage protein genes.

His current research is mainly concernedwith the role of the cell wall in plant defence– the wall is the first barrier whichpathogens have to surmount and manydefence pathways are initiated at the wall. Inmany cases, the composition of the wallalters in response to pathogen attackthereby creating a barrier to pathogen entry- he is investigating this using a transgenicapproach. He is also interested in the publicunderstanding of science and frequentlygives lectures on different aspects ofmolecular biology. He is the organiser of theMSc in Molecular Biology withBiotechnology.


School of Environment, Natural Resourcesand Geography

About the SchoolThe School of Environment, NaturalResources and Geography has a world-class reputation in research, with particularexpertise in forest ecology andmanagement; environmental and soilscience; agricultural systems; agroforestry;biodiversity conservation; and tropicalecosystems. The School has the highestpossible independent rating for the qualityof teaching and the pastoral care we providefor our students has also been very highlyrated.

The research reputation of the School isevident in the number of research projectsthat it runs; we currently have more than 60students undertaking research for theirPhDs. Their work is undertaken over athree-year period, and results in theproduction of a thesis and several scientificpapers. This concentration of postgraduatesconcerned with environmental and resourcemanagement topics makes the School aconsiderable force in terms of globalresearch. We attract visiting scholars fromevery corner of the globe, who in turncontribute to a lively and invigoratingatmosphere within the School.

FacilitiesThe School has a wide range of modernfacilities including a dedicated ResearchStation, which is home to long-termexperiments in forestry, agroforestry,climate change, crop breeding and ecology.The School hosts other major inter-nationally and nationally recognisedresearch centres such as the Centre forEvidence-Based Conservation, and theCentre for Integrated Research in the RuralEnvironment.

Our location provides unique opportunitiesfor study in the disciplines we cover,particularly the natural environment, landuse and conservation. The SnowdoniaNational Park is less than 20 minutesaway and this provides a ‘living laboratory’for much of our teaching and research.

Overview of academic areasThe types of research undertaken varywidely across the environment and land usespectrum. Much of our research isundertaken overseas and we have projectsin countries as far apart as Vietnam,Ethiopia and Peru. In addition to this fieldwork, and our laboratories in Bangor, theSchool runs its own research centre 5 milesoutside the city. This is the home to long-term experiments in forestry, agroforestry,animal breeding and ecology.

We offer a wide range of degreeprogrammes including Mastersprogrammes in Agroforestry; Conservationand Land Management; EnvironmentalForestry; Sustainable Tropical Forestry; andSustainable Forestry and NatureManagement. We also currently offer ataught postgraduate distance-learningprogramme. Research degrees are offeredin a wide range of environmental subjects;such as Plant and Soil Science; NaturalResources Ecology, Conservation andManagement; and Crop and Forest Science.

Many of our programmes are professionallyaccredited, including our forestry-relatedprogrammes which are accredited by theInstitute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) andour Environmental programmes, which areaccredited by the Institution ofEnvironmental Sciences.

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


TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382281E-mail: [email protected]/senrgy

Dr Hussain Omed, Course Director of MSc Conservation and LandManagement and Overseas Liaison Officer, School of Environment,Natural Resources and Geography

Dr Hussain Omed is interested in Microbiological quality of poultrymeat and the use of new approaches to minimise microbialcontamination. He carried out intensive research looking at theeffect of colour and intensity of lights on the behaviour, welfare andperformance of broiler chickens. His research also includes somenovel techniques in forage evaluation. He developed a novel in-vitromethod, for forage evaluation in ruminant nutrition. This method isbased 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 thiswork 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 in2004 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 OverseasStudents 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 tosettle in Bangor.

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“I was really keen to study for my PhD atBangor as I appreciated the friendly yetproductive atmosphere at the School ofOcean Sciences. One of the best thingsabout being a student in Bangor is thesupport offered to Postgraduates. We’reoffered skills training and given access tospecialist equipment and academic expertsand have the opportunity to collaborate onour work. The general camaraderie withinresearch groups is also a plus.”

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

About the School The School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor isone of the largest university marine sciencedepartments in Europe and a leadinginternational research institution, which isideally located on the shores of the MenaiStrait in north Wales.

The School is home to The Centre for MarineSciences (CAMS) which has very close linkswith relevant national and internationalagencies, governmental bodies and the usercommunity. It also provides policy adviceand has had a profound impact on appliedshelf sea science through work on particletracking, oil spill management, andaquaculture and marine conservation.

FacilitiesThe School of Ocean Sciences has excellentsupport facilities for both teaching andresearch. These range from large, modern,well equipped teaching laboratories to‘high-tech’ research laboratories; from alocal area PC based computer network topowerful number crunching workstationsused in numerical ocean modelling; fromphotographic and desktop publishinggraphics systems to in-house electrical andmechanical workshops capable of designingand building state of the art oceanographicequipment; from a filtered seawater supplydirect from the Menai Strait to tropical andcool water marine aquaria. Our strongseagoing capability is enabled by the RVPrince Madog, a state-of-the-art researchvessel, and an inshore boat fleet.

All our postgraduate taught programmeshave been accredited by the Institute ofMarine Engineering, Science andTechnology (IMarEST), and as such facilitateyour progression to Chartered status inlater professional life. One-year taughtMasters degrees and research degrees arealso offered in a wide range of marinesubjects.

Overview of academic areasThe School is an actively seagoing researchinstitution with an international reputationfor the quality of its research on shelf seasand shallow marine environments. Oceanmargins, shelf seas, estuaries and thecoastal zone are the key elements of themarine system with respect to climatechange impacts (sea level, ecosystemfunctioning) and anthropogenic interactions.Our activity accordingly encompasses blueskies, strategic and applied research, andactive knowledge transfer. The School’sresearch culture is based on amultidisciplinary, earth systems, approachto the investigation of shallow marinesystems and processes.

School of Ocean Sciences

COURSE LIST:

MSc• Applied Marine Geoscience• Marine Biology• Marine Environmental Protection• Physical Oceanography

PhD/MPhil• Ocean Sciences – Shelf Sea and Coastal

Processes; Biogeochemistry andPalaeoceanography; Marine Ecosystems:Conservation and Resource Management

TO FIND OUT MORE:Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382842E-mail: [email protected]. bangor.ac.uk

“The MSc in Physical Oceanography at BangorUniversity, which has received NERC funding since1965, meets a critical skills need in the UK formodellers and numerate environmentalscientists.”NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, July 2011


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 tropicalmarine ecology and conservation and runs the MSc course in Marine EnvironmentalProtection. His current projects revolve around enhancing marine protected areas in theCayman Islands in the Caribbean, and the world’s largest marine protected area in theBritish Indian Ocean Territory. His interests range from micro-algae in symbiosis withcorals, through to Environmental Impact Assessment.

Current PhD students work on shark cleaning behaviour; stingray ecology; acousticmethods of dolphin monitoring in Special Areas of Conservation; reef resilience and marineprotected areas; community based marine protected areas; coral bleaching, and coral reefecology; and John supervises many MSc projects overseas. John has undertaken large-scale biological surveys for the United Nations Development Programme on the sustainableuse of biodiversity of Socotra Archipelago, and on the coastal ecosystems of the AndamanIslands, and Environmental Impact Assessments for major industrial developments such asa Liquid Natural Gas terminal in Oman, and effluent treatment in Mauritius. He leads theUNESCO Network in Marine Biology in East Africa, and is experienced in scientific diving andunderwater surveys, especially in remote places.

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The College of Health and Behavioural Sciences is the largest in theUniversity. It has formal links with the local NHS trust enabling an integratedapproach to developing research, training, medical and healthcareeducation 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 subjectintegrity, the College fosters inter-school collaboration and shared academicgoals and practices. Our teaching is informed by world-class collaborativeresearch. This means that students have the opportunity to study withacademics who are at the cutting edge of their academic disciplines,whether that is elite sports performance, nurse training or fMRI brainimaging.

Our research covers a broad range of health, biomedical, sports, exerciseand performance science and behavioural science related areas. The qualityand depth of the College's research has been demonstrated with itsexcellent set of results from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Over70 members of staff from the College were submitted to the Exercise. Thepanels noted internationally excellent and indeed world-leading researchactivity in the three units of assessment in which entries were made (HealthServices Research, Psychology, and Sports-Related Studies).

The College has sought to build on its long history in healthand behavioural science related research with expertisespanning ageing and dementia, health services andmanagement, chronic disease, brain disorder rehabilitation,cognitive and development psychology, randomised healthtrials, high performance physiology and psychology, andeconomic evaluation of public health and pharmacologicalinitiatives. The College's commitment to world-class,scientifically rigorous research is confirmed by itssubstantial investment in laboratories and equipment inbiochemistry, hydrodensitometry, cell biology, perceptualmotor testing and fMRI brain imaging. Our research ethos isto advance both basic and applied science, challengecurrent thinking in the health and behavioural sciencedomains while informing the College’s teaching andlearning provision.

There are a large number of specific research units, centresand institutes either within the College, or with closeassociations to it (or members of its staff), including thoselisted 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

COLLEGE OF HEALTH ANDBEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES


Modern Resources and Facilities – as a studentyou will have access to all the learning resourcesyou will need for success in your studies

The Bangor University academics behindthe highly successful Food Dudesprogramme, which encourages healthyeating choices in young children and theirfamilies, are to receive an award for theway that they have adapted theirscientific knowledge for a very practicalpurpose.

Professor Fergus Lowe and Dr PaulineHorne of Bangor University’s School ofPsychology are to receive the ScientificTranslation Award (Technology Transfer)from the Society for the Advancement ofBehavioural Analysis (SABA) at theirAnnual Convention in Seattle in the USAin May 2012.

The Award recognises the developmentand dissemination of the Food Dudesprogramme. It is awarded to an individualor individuals in the public or privatesector who address socially significantproblems using methods directly linkedto behavioural analysis or that effectivelyincorporate behavioural principles.

“At a time when obesity rates around theworld are trending upwards and childrenare deprived of important nutrients foundin fruit and vegetables, SABA is proud torecognise the achievements of the FoodDudes programme in improving the dietsof children in the United Kingdom,Ireland, Sicily, and the US. Yourintegration of behavioural principlesthrough the many components of FoodDudes interventions is a model for otherswishing to impact societally importantbehaviour,” said Maria Malott Secretaryof the Society for the Advancement ofBehaviour Analysis.

“The Food Dudes project is gaining globalrecognition for the very successful waythat it can improve eating habits. As wellas winning a World Health OrganisationAward for its application in Ireland andwinning the UK Chief Medical Officer’sGold Medal Award, the Food Dudesprogramme has been adopted by theEuropean Commission to illustrate howgovernments in Europe can tackleobesity. This is a project from BangorUniversity that can make a real impact onthe health of people in those societiesworldwide that are now faced with sucha major obesity challenge. I’m verypleased that the academics involved arereceiving the recognition of theirprofessional peers for their contribution,”said Prof John G. Hughes, Vice-Chancellor of Bangor University.

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School of Healthcare Sciences

About the SchoolThe School of Healthcare Sciences is afriendly and supportive place to study. Wepride ourselves on supporting students inan environment that establishes andmaintains a high standard of quality andexcellence in teaching and learning as wellas research.

Our novel research focus on knowledgeproduction, synthesis, and utilisation isdirected at generating high quality evidenceand developing better understanding of theeffectiveness and cost effectiveness ofinterventions, services and organisations.We are also developing and applying novelresearch methods to synthesise what isknown, and to gain better understanding ofhow and why evidence or knowledge do ordo not get used in practice. Within thisoverall research focus we have high levelinternational expertise in the areas ofdisabled children, older people, stroke,language and cultural sensitivity, knowledgetranslation theory, practice and evaluationmethods.

Staff and facilitiesStaff are drawn from a variety ofprofessional backgrounds and we arecommitted to our central aim of helpingstudents to achieve the knowledge andskills required for academic and clinicalpractice delivery.

We have an extensive collection of booksand journals and many of the journals and arange of books are available online in full-text format. We also have databases, videosand CDs; micro material and a web-basedcatalogue to access e-books, e-journals,past exam papers, subject guides and otherlearning resources. The School also offers acomputer room for student use.

Overview of academic areasOur MSc programmes have been developedin collaboration with health and social careorganisations in the UK, and in response toour experience and work internationally.Our courses are multidisciplinary andinterprofessional, enabling students to drawon a range of clinical and service-orientedexperiences.

The post registration pathways particularlywere created to address current targets incontinuing professional development - butwith flexible elements to allow students toadapt assessment work to their own needs.Full-time students can complete within 18months, part-time students typically take 3years, while associate students may take upto five years to complete their studies.

Many programmes comprise both theoryand practice elements; these are designedto respond to the changes brought about byresearch, changes in society, health andsocial care needs.

The School recognises and valuespostgraduate students who come to studywith pre-existing knowledge, skills,experience, values and beliefs, and thesewill be taken as a starting point fordevelopment. We offer a range ofpostgraduate pathways which include bothpre-registration and post-registrationprogrammes i.e. pathways that lead to aprofessional qualification or furtherprofessional development for students whoalready hold a professional qualification.

The School has developed a multi-disciplinary Masters level programme forpost registration, postgraduate health andsocial care professionals and others as wellas some pre-registration, postgraduateprovision. The majority of modules andpathways are available on a part-time orfull-time basis to meet the needs of avariety of students pursuing a higher degreeand are delivered flexibly wheneverpossible. A blended learning approach hasbeen adopted which entails learning in avariety of environments such as in theclassroom, practice settings and virtuallearning. There is a strong emphasis oncontinuing professional development forstudents; supported by a range of highquality teaching and research activities forpostgraduate 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 HealthProfessions #

# international students are advised tocontact the School before applying

CONTACT DETAILS:School of Healthcare SciencesTel: +44 (0) 1248 383123E-mail: [email protected]/healthcaresciences

An innovative e-learning coursedeveloped at the School of HealthcareSciences is assisting trained nurses andwound-care specialist nurses acrossWales to achieve Wales’ unique nationalstandards of competence for wound-care. This is an exciting development bythe School together with the University’sIT & Computing Services departmentwhich will lead the way for further e-learning opportunities at the School.

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School of Medical Sciences

About the SchoolThe School of Medical Sciences is the focusfor medical education and research atBangor University. The School offersundergraduate and postgraduate degrees,short courses for healthcare and alliedprofessionals as well as a range of medicalresearch opportunities.

The School is a partner in the North WalesClinical School, a partnership between theHigher Education Institutions which operatein north Wales and the Betsi CadwaladrUniversity Health Board. The North WalesClinical School provides a collaborativeenvironment for medical education andresearch within north Wales.

We are committed to delivering a range ofcourses for postgraduate study appropriatefor health care and allied professions. Therange of education/training covers oppor-tunities from short courses, throughPostgraduate Certificates and Diplomas toMasters and PhD level study. Our prog-rammes have been developed in responseto our experience and work with clinical andhealth professionals both locally, nationallyand internationally.

StaffWe employ a number of clinical and non-clinical academic staff who are activelyinvolved in research which aligns withnational and local healthcare priorities,particularly in the areas of ageing, chronicdisease, cardiovascular disease, cancer andmental health. Our academic staff have awealth of experience in teaching medicaland non-medical undergraduate andpostgraduate students. The Schoolacademics teach in both the University andhealth service settings.

Overview of academic areasBangor University has a long history ofexcellence in health research. The School ofMedical Sciences is building on thesestrengths and is rapidly expanding thenumber and scope of its research activestaff. The School has expertise across awide range of academic and clinical areasparticularly in the areas of ageing, chronicdisease, cardiovascular disease, cancer andmental health. The School is also buildingon the biomedical research strengths ofBangor University and, in collaboration withother academic departments, is activelydeveloping complementary programmes oftranslational and clinical research in linewith national and local healthcare priorities.

The School has been successful in grantcapture which promotes clinical researchwithin north Wales in partnership withclinicians within the Betsi CadwaladrUniversity Health Board.

We provide a range of short courses as wellas award bearing courses. The Schooloffers postgraduate opportunities inmedical education and research and isworking with the Bangor UniversityBusiness School to develop managementand leadership courses for healthcare andallied professionals.

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

CONTACT DETAILS:School of Medical SciencesTel: +44 (0) 1248 383244E-mail: [email protected]/sms

Dr John M. Delieu, Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences

Dr John M. Delieu is currently a lecturer in Anatomy in the School of MedicalSciences, and the Universities’ Designated Individual (for the Human TissueAct). He is also an Anatomist within the Robert Jones and Agnes HuntOrthopaedic Hospital, Shropshire; visiting lecturer of Anatomy at KeeleUniversity; Associate Clinical Teacher for Cardiff Medical School; CouncilMember of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists.

He qualified initially as a nurse and worked within the domains of theelderly, paediatrics and as a charge nurse in sexually transmitted diseases.At a later date, he changed direction and studied Anatomy and Cell Biologyat The University of Sheffield going on to gain a PhD.

“I think what attracted me to north Wales was the rural setting and thefriendliness. I still have a genuine buzz when I come to work. In a way it is ahobby.”

Dr Delieu’s is involved in on-going collaborative research looking at inducedoxidative stress on cells that have been treated with antipsychoticmedication. Also he is collaborating in the development of virtual realityenvironments and prototyping for anatomy teaching.

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School of Psychology

About the SchoolAs a postgraduate in Psychology, you will beworking with internationally renownedresearchers and making use of superbresearch facilities. The quality of the Schoolof Psychology's teaching is highly regardedand has been officially recognised as‘Excellent’ in the latest governmentTeaching Quality Assessment. Our academicmembers of staff not only teach well, butalso produce research of the highest quality,with influences in the public sector(especially Health and Clinical activities) aswell as in industry and the academic world.The School is rated as being in the top 7 UKpsychology departments for researchpower; with more than double the nationalaverage of ‘World Leading’ research outputand 65% of the total departmental researchoutput being rated in the top two categoriesof the most recent Research AssessmentExercise.

The School of Psychology at Bangor is oneof the country's leading Psychologydepartments and has a thrivingpostgraduate community of over 200Masters and more than 80 PhD students. Itis a truly international department with staffand students drawn from over 20 countriesfrom across the world.

Bangor Psychology’s ranking as an elitedepartment is underlined by its listing in theCHE European Excellence Ranking. Of theseBangor's Psychology department wasplaced in joint third overall (second in theUK) in terms of the number of stars itachieved based on the institutional surveyand was also placed in the top ten based onthe CHE pre-selection criteria index. Starsare awarded to departments who doparticularly well in certain areas and thefact that Bangor has scored so highly interms of stars awarded is a cleardemonstration of the department's overallquality and the international esteem inwhich its staff and students are held.

Overall the School is one of the largest inthe UK in terms of student numbers andoffers students a combination of quantityand quality simply not available elsewhere.As well as high academic standards theSchool delivers high standards of studentsupport and guidance and prides itself onthe fact that its friendly environment is oftenidentified as a major strength. There are anumber of academic and social studentsocieties within the department which add agreat deal to the overall student experience.

The School forms a large part of the Collegeof Health & Behavioural Sciences, a Collegewhich boasts a very strong research andteaching ethos which translates intoexcellent course provision.

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 PsychologyTel: +44 (0) 1248 382629E-mail: [email protected]/psychology

Staff and facilitiesThese centres, as well as being in thevanguard of academic research in thesefields, offer students unique opportunitiesfor project work covering importanttheoretical and practical elements. Withinthese research centres staff and studentshave access to a large number of specialistresearch labs including a 3T MRI scanner,TMS Labs, ERP, faraday cages, a brainanatomy laboratory, eye tracking facilitiesand an on-site nursery with observationfacilities as well as dozens of computerbased testing laboratories.

Postgraduate students at Bangor studyunder the guidance of academics withinternational reputations and have access toresearch facilities that exceed thoseavailable in most other departments, eitherin the UK or internationally.

Overview of academic areasThe School’s postgraduate programmescover a number of specialist areas thatreflect the mix of research expertise withinthe department. The department has over50 Academic Faculty members, many ofwhom are world leading or internationallyrenowned experts in their fields. Theresearch areas of staff can be drawntogether in the following broad categories:• Cognitive Neuroscience• Language, Aging and Dementia• Clinical and Health • Behaviour Change • Experimental Consumer Psychology

The School boasts a number of prestigiousresearch centres, including:

• The Wolfson Centre for CognitiveNeuroscience

• 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

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Prof Steve Tipper, Professor of Cognitive Science, School of Psychology

Professor Steve Tipper’s major research interests are in the mechanisms that link visualperception with action, where he has published over 120 articles receiving a total citationcount of over 6000. He has received the President’s Award from the British PsychologicalSociety for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge and more recently theExperimental Psychology Society Mid-Career Award. He’s also received the rare honour ofbeing elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2010 he was elected as a foundingFellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

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

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School of Sport, Health andExercise Sciences

About the SchoolThe School of Sport, Health and ExerciseSciences (SSHES) has been providing highcalibre MSc programmes since 2000. Sincethen we have attracted approximately 45students per year from home and abroad,including students from countries as farapart as the USA, Singapore, Bahrain,Malaysia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

The scientific integrity of our academics (allof whom are research active) is regularlyrecognised by research accreditationexercises. The most recent ResearchAssessment Exercise (RAE) confirmed ournow well-established reputation for thehighest quality research, with 80% of ourwork being judged as either world-leadingor at an international level. This placed usas one of the top ten Sport Science Schoolsin the UK. Our excellence in research feedsdirectly into our postgraduate degreeprogrammes, since students are taught by,and work with, the researchers who drivethe knowledge base in the subject areasthey study.

As a School we value the overall experienceof our students highly and pride ourselveson having a caring and student centredapproach. We aim to provide a challengingand enjoyable learning environment whichis welcoming and supportive of all ourstudents. The School provides a close knit,friendly community and was the only SportScience School in the UK to be judged’Exemplary’ for its student support whenlast evaluated.

FacilitiesOur students are also encouraged to takeadvantage of the unique environmentBangor offers – a reputable academicinstitution located between Snowdonia andthe sea – one of the prime universitylocations in Britain for pursuing sport and arange of outdoor activities.

The School is based in a beautiful Grade IIlisted building on the banks of the MenaiStrait and is well resourced for the scientificstudy of sport, health and exercise. We havean extensive range of laboratories andstate-of-the-art equipment for sport andexercise physiology, psychology, motorcontrol 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 areasThe School offers a full range of taughtsport, health and exercise sciencepostgraduate degrees. Which degree youchoose will depend on your specificinterests. The MSc programmes have beendesigned to be flexible and relevant to thestudent's individual needs and interests,with a strong emphasis on the application oftheory to professional practice. MResdegrees are aimed at students who wish togain more extensive training in research insport, health and exercise sciences. And forthose wishing to pursue an entirelyresearch-based degree, MPhil and PhDprogrammes are available.

Students undertaking any programme ofpostgraduate study (MSc, MRes orPhD/MPhil) may have the opportunity toprepare for the British Association of Sportand Exercise Sciences (BASES) supervisoryexperience training, which is normally apre-requisite of the Association'sprofessional accreditation.

COURSE LIST:

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

PhD/MPhil• Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences

CONTACT DETAILS:School of Sport, Health & Exercise ScienceTel: +44 (0) 1248 388256E-mail:Taught courses: [email protected] courses: [email protected]/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 stressand performance in sport; personality and how it relates to various aspects of sport andexercise, including emotions and coping with stress; risk-taking, with particular interest inwhy people engage in risk-taking sports.

He collaborates with researchers from Europe and America and presents at conferencesworldwide. 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 ofcourse!

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

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

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“I chose to study my PhD at Bangor as I sawthat a favourite Professor of mine from myfirst degree had a PhD studentship. Hisresearch themes appealed to me more thanany other scientific topic and gave me theenthusiasm to peruse an MSc in the firstplace.

My supervisors, my advisory council, mySchool managers and financers have allbeen extremely helpful. I have theopportunity to guide projects and have mysay in what/why/how the things we seehappen. Besides that, the course is prettymuch exactly what I wanted to do, a perfectcombination of biology and psychology.

So far, my first publication has been by farthe number one experience. Although, Ihave lots of new exciting data to write up atthe moment…”

TOM LANCASTER, from Bristol, studying aPhD in Medical Sciences

“The School of Psychology is highly rankedamong the universities in the UK. Areas ofresearch in the School such as ClinicalPsychology, Neuroscience, CognitiveScience and Consumer Psychology give mea broad range of choices when it comes toresearch focus, which is so beneficial andthere is so much to learn from differentexpertise.

If you're interested in Psychology, Bangorcan provide you with incredible experiencesand you'll be exposed to various researchopportunities to work with different wellknown experts in their field. The academicsystem here is designed to not only makeyou pass your course but allows you toexcel in what you do. Think Psychology,think Bangor!”

PO LING, from Malaysia, studying an MSc inFoundation of Clinical Neuropsychology

“I am originally from Dorset and came tostudy Sports Science (Outdoor Activities) atBangor in 2007. I fell in love with the placeafter coming to an open day as the closeknit, friendly atmosphere really appealed tome. The combination of a top Sport ScienceSchool and the beautiful surroundingsmade it the perfect choice for me. I am akeen climber and cyclist and the perfectplayground is right on my doorstep!

Having becoming familiar with the peopleand places I chose to stay in Bangor to domy postgraduate degree. The broad rangeof modules on the applied physiologycourse suited my needs at the time, as I didnot yet know whether I wanted to go intoperformance or clinical physiology.

I have enjoyed the MSc course for the samereasons as during my undergraduatedegree. While there is a high level ofexpectation for good quality work, thesupport available to help you achieve this isunbeatable. There is a close relationshipbetween students and staff, which makesthem approachable and understanding.

You must be prepared to work extremelyhard for a whole year, though as is the rulein Bangor, you must make time to play hardtoo!”

CHARLOTTE JELLEYMAN, from Dorset,studying an MSc Applied Sport andExercise Physiology

More than thirty of this year’s ConsumerPsychology and Business Mastersstudents have been conductingsemester-long research projects in thelocal community. As part of Dr JamesIntriligator’s ‘applied consumerpsychology’ module, students have beeninvestigating a range of psychologicalissues related to consumer activity. Forexample, one team of students workedwith a local health food store tounderstand what motivates people toshop there, the behaviour of non-shoppers, and how do people navigateand explore their online store. Otherteams worked with the University’s BarUno Café Bar to study space and priceperception and some assisted localorganisations including the National Trustowned Penrhyn Castle and the OgwenValley Mountain Rescue Organisation.

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Institute of Medical andSocial Care Research

About the InstituteThe Institute of Medical and Social CareResearch (IMSCaR) was founded in 1997,providing a focus for the University'sresearch in health and social care.

IMSCaR aims to undertake internationalquality research, with an increasing grantcapture from research councils, of local andnational benefit to patients and theirprofessional and informal carers. We seekto do so through work characterised byscientific rigour, practical relevance, andcollaboration between academic institutionsand health and social care providers.IMSCaR undertakes multi-disciplinaryresearch, bringing together a staff of healtheconomists, psychologists and statisticians;in collaboration with a wide range of clinicalspecialties, spanning oncology, pharmacy,rheumatology and public health.

Staff and facilitiesIMSCaR is a dedicated research institutewith over 50 research staff andpostgraduate research students in 3 distinctbut interlinked research centres - theCentre for Health Economics and MedicinesEvaluation (CHEME); the Dementia ServicesDevelopment Centre; and the North WalesOrganisation for Randomised Trials inHealth (NWORTH) which is Bangor’s ClinicalTrials Unit.

Though staff contribute to taught MScmodules across the College of Health andBehavioural Sciences, IMSCaR’s focus is ondeveloping its doctoral research prog-ramme. This means that our postgraduateresearch students, many of whom areexternally funded by the MRC, NISCHR, andcharities such as Tenovus, enjoy fullinvolvement in the Institute’s research life,from sharing offices with research staff,journal clubs, providing support to ongoingresearch projects and with opportunities todisseminate their PhD findings at nationaland international conferences. Wherepossible, students are offered anopportunity to link into an ongoing study orclinical trial, providing an opportunity fororiginal research contribution, whilebenefiting from the wider research team onmatters such as ethics, data protection,analysis and manuscript preparation.IMSCaR follows a ‘four publication’ modelfor PhD thesis, thereby giving prospectivepost doctorates a head start having made amaterial contribution to the outputs of theInstitute. We also aim to offer students anopportunity for post doctoral employment.From time to time, studentships areadvertised, but enquiries from potentialself-funding students are also welcome.

Overview of academic areasIMSCaR’s main research areas are in healtheconomics and medicines evaluation;ageing and dementia care; medicalstatistics and trials methodology. Studentsundertake their MScs and PhDs on a rangeof topics, at present these span ageing anddementia care, parenting programmes fordisadvantaged families, pharmaco-economics, and economics of disability,cancer care and pay for performance in theNHS. Students are encouraged to undertakeboth method-ological and applied researchin producing their thesis.

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 ResearchTel: +44 (0) 1248 388771E-mail: [email protected]/imscar

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Prof Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Institute for Medical and Social Care Research

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards is Professor of Health Economics and Co- Director of the Centrefor Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation at Bangor University. She is a graduate ofthe University of Wales, Aberystwyth, University of Calgary, Canada, and the University ofYork where she undertook her doctoral research on NHS waiting lists as a non-pricerationing mechanism in public health care.

Rhiannon and colleagues at Bangor lead the economic evaluation of a range of trials inDementia Care, Parenting, and the All Wales GP Exercise Referral Programme, andRhiannon has published collaboratively a range of peer reviewed articles, reports and bookchapters on health economics methodology, cost-effectiveness studies, political devolutionand health policy, and health economics in medical education. She reviews for a range ofhealth economics and health services research journals, works closely with Public HealthWales and is an examiner for the UK Faculty of Public Health. She is also an active memberof 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 growinginterest in the application of health economics to technologies/services to support peopleliving with disability. She is currently part of an international collaboration looking at lowvision service models.

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


The College of Physical and Applied Sciences can trace its roots back to thefoundation of the University in 1884. It has had a long tradition of excellencein research and teaching and employs many academics who are leaders intheir fields. The College comprises three constituent schools, the School ofChemistry, the School of Computer Science and the School of ElectronicEngineering.

The College is one of the most successful at the University in the quality ofits research outputs. Students who study with us are able to receiveindividual attention for the duration of their time with us. The researchquality of the College was confirmed in the most recent ResearchAssessment Exercise (RAE 2008) which saw all three Schools - Chemistry,Computer Science and Electronic Engineering - improve their position bothnationally and locally. Electronic Engineering was ranked equal second inthe UK.

All Schools enjoy valuable and extensive collaborations both within the UKand internationally as evidenced from the high proportion of publicationsthat include co-authors from other UK and international institutions andorganisations. Such interactions and collaborations, when added to theexpertise and facilities within the College, provide a unique resource forregional businesses and employment opportunities for students.

The strategic directions of the College are clear and map well onto the fourstated 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 Theoreticaland Computational Chemistry. However, the boundaries between thesegroupings are diffused with several collaborations occurring both within theSchool and further afield. Computer Science has seen rapid expansion in itsVisualisation and Medical Graphics activities. The internationally recognisedwork on Pattern Recognition together with growing activity in ArtificialIntelligence and Intelligent Agents forms a second key theme. SystemsModelling, the third theme in Computer Science, provides opportunities forinteraction with a number of local industries and with colleagues in theSchool of Electronic Engineering where the key themes are Optoelectronicsand Organic Electronics with continuing activity in Laser Micromachining.

Students who study at the College of Physical and Applied Sciences areassured that their work will contribute to and be involved with currentresearch, and many of our students have papers published during their timeat Bangor.

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School of Chemistry

About the SchoolChemistry at Bangor has a distinguishedhistory stretching back over 125 years andChemistry was one of the four foundingdepartments of the University in 1884. Overthis period the highest standards inteaching coupled with a strong commitmentto research have been the School’s mission.

The School of Chemistry combines atraditional approach with a moderncurriculum and teaching methods. Theresult is a modern School which offers arange of solid-based postgraduate degreecourses which have been highly rated byour external examiners.

The School has an active postgraduateprogramme with students from the UK andfrom many different countries around theworld. Research work in the School is of thehighest quality and creativity spanning thetraditional areas of organic, inorganic andphysical chemistry grouped together underthe three research themes of chemistry atthe life science interface, materialschemistry and theoretical chemistry.

Staff and facilitiesThe School has a full complement ofacademic staff working in modern teachingand research facilities. Postgraduateteaching and learning is enhanced bytraditional lectures, seminars, computersessions and laboratory classes withresearch work being the main emphasis.We have well-equipped laboratories withindustry standard instrumentation forstudents use, including NMR, GC, HPLC, MS,spectroscopy (FTIR and UV-vis), TGA, XRDand microscopy.

Overview of academic areasThe School of Chemistry has a vibrantresearch community which includes MScAnalytical Chemistry, MSc EnvironmentalChemistry, MRes, MPhil and PhD studentsall working under the broad Schoolresearch themes of materials chemistry,chemistry at the life science interface andtheoretical chemistry. We also collaboratewith colleagues in the Schools of BiologicalSciences and Environment, NaturalResources and Geography in environmentalscience.

Specific research interests include polymerchemistry, catalysis, computationalmodelling, sensors for drugs andexplosives, photovoltaics, green chemistryand synthetic chemistry. We have manylinks with both industrial and academicpartners around the world, contributing tothe School's international reputation forexcellence.

COURSE LIST:

MSc/PgDip• Analytical Chemistry• Environmental Chemistry

MRes• Chemistry

PhD/MPhil• Chemistry

CONTACT DETAILS:School of ChemistryTel: + 44 (0) 1248 382375E-mail: [email protected]/chemistry

The School of Chemistry has beenhonoured with a Royal Society ofChemistry (RSC) Landmark Award. Thisis the first for Bangor, and the first of itskind for Wales.

The RSC Chemical Landmark Plaque is inrecognition of both Professor TedHughes’ critical research in PhysicalOrganic Chemistry and the 125 years ofexcellence in Chemistry at Bangor.

Professor Hughes was Head of theSchool of Chemistry from 1943-8. Hisresearch contributed to a greaterunderstanding of organic reactionmechanisms which now underpinuniversity chemistry curricula world-wide.

The long-standing relationship forgedbetween the RSC and the School ofChemistry has been extremely important,benefitting all aspects of Chemistry fromteaching and research to school eventsand public lectures. Many of the RSCLocal Section officers and Committeemembers are Bangor Chemistry staffand students. Serving on the RSCcommittee has also proved invaluable formany students. The RSC has not onlyenriched the student experience here atBangor but has helped to excitegenerations of school children aboutscience.

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School of Computer Science

About the SchoolThe School of Computer Science is a youngand lively community of academic staff,undergraduate and postgraduate studentsand postdoctoral research workers.

Computer Science at Bangor is ideallyplaced to provide the training required for acareer in IT in the 21st century. Ourinteractions with a wide range of companiesensure our degree courses reflect currenttrends and recent developments in theirsubjects.

FacilitiesThe School has a strong and vibrantpostgraduate programme and our studentshave dedicated laboratories in which towork.

The School is well equipped with computerrooms and other specialist equipment (suchas a High Performance Visualisation andMedical Graphics laboratory) that are usedto support and reinforce information andconcepts presented during lectures andseminars.

In addition, we aim to ensure that ourstudents use industry-standard hardwareand software from the beginning of theirstudies and we continue to invest in newcomputer systems and up-to-date softwareto support our teaching.

The School’s strong focus on postgraduateteaching and research means that all ourstudents are involved with current researchthemes from the outset, working closelywith their personal tutors on the latestresearch.

The School also offers postgraduatedegrees for students who have not studiedthe subject before. This specialist MSc isopen to anyone who has an undergraduatedegree and equips students with all the ITskills and knowledge required whenrunning or working in a business.

Overview of academic areasResearch expertise in the School spanscomputer graphics, visualization,knowledge discovery, and communications.Expertise in these areas is incorporated intoour teaching activities, giving studentsdirect access to the latest Computer Scienceresearch.

COURSE LIST:

MSc• Computer Systems• Computing and Internet 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 ScienceTel: + 44 (0) 1248 382686E-mail: [email protected]/cs

An innovative cross-disciplinaryapproach by scientists at the School ofComputer Science and the School ofPsychology received over £500,000 infunding from two of the UK’s mainfunding bodies, the Engineering andPhysical Sciences Research Councils andthe Economic and Social ResearchCouncil.

The ability to create artificial visionsystems as complex as our own humanvision has challenged robotics expertsfor decades. Artificial vision systems ableto recognise objects and function beyonda stable, controlled environment wouldhave a range of applications. Workingtogether, the cross-disciplinary projectaims to work out the highly complexneural processes involved in simpletasks such as recognising objects,despite variations such as position, lightand shadow.

Dr Ik Soo Lim from the School ofComputer Sciences explained - “Ourinput involved translating data from onediscipline into the language of another.We will be converting the data beingcollected in the psychologists’ visionlaboratories into computational modelsthat will underpin the development ofmore complex artificial visual systems.”

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Students have access to state-of-the-art researchequipment, such as the nitrogen glove box facility(seen here) attached to the Class 1000 cleanroom, for handling organic devices which cannotbe exposed to oxygen.


School of Electronic Engineering

About the SchoolThe School of Electronic Engineering is atthe forefront of education and research inelectronics today and conducts world-leading research in optoelectronics, opticalcommunications, organic electronics andbioelectronics. In the most recent Govern-ment Research Assessment Exercise theSchool was ranked 2nd in the UK.

Staff and facilitiesSince our staff work with companiesthrough joint research projects, knowledgetransfer partnerships and as consultants,students can be sure that they are taught bypractising professional engineers andscientists.

The School of Electronic Engineering hasexcellent facilities for postgraduatestudents, including a dedicated PC lab forMSc students and access to cutting edgelaboratory equipment, from clean rooms tooptical communications testbeds. Studentscan be sure that they will have access torelevant equipment and experimentaltechniques, and will carry out their projectwork in the School’s well equipped researchlaboratories.

Overview of academic areasOptoelectronics research focuses onunderstanding the physics of semiconductoroptoelectronic devices, with a particularemphasis on the dynamics of optoelectronicsystems and on optical chaossynchronisation and chaos communications. The Organic Electronics researchersexamine how organic chemicals, withdesirable electronic properties, can bemanufactured into electronic devices tocompete with silicon, with a particularemphasis on organic photovoltaic materialsand low-cost plastic electronics.

The interaction between electronic andelectrical phenomena and biologicalsamples forms the focus of bioelectronicresearch at the school. Biological measuringinstruments can be made by utilising theinterplay of cells and miniaturised,structured electric fields, to build an entire‘lab on a chip’.

COURSE LIST:

MSc• Broadband and Optical Communications • Electronic Engineering• Nanotechnology and Microfabrication

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 Laboratory-

on-a-Chip• Optical Communications• Optoelectronics• Organic Electronics

CONTACT DETAILS:School of Electronic EngineeringTel: + 44 (0) 1248 382686E-mail: [email protected]/eng

To celebrate our 125th anniversary in2009, Bangor University launched a fiveyear programme of postgraduateexpansion. As part of this expansion theUniversity offered a number of researchscholarships and Sanjay Priyadarshi,from India, was lucky enough to beawarded one of the research scholar-ships. He is currently studying for a PhDat the School of Electronic Engineering.

“I received the 125th AnniversaryResearch Scholarship which was agolden opportunity for me to follow mydream of studying further and now I am aPhD student at the School of ElectronicEngineering. My area of research isOptical Chaos Communication and theCharacteristics of Nonlinear Dynamics ofSemiconductor Lasers.

The School has excellent facilities andexperienced staff that all have theincredible skill of motivating andpreparing their students for thechallenges of the new high-tech world.Bangor University is among the bestresearch-intensive universities in the UK.The University has excellent researchfacilities along with excellent teachingand learning resources and support.

The best thing about the School for me isthe eco-friendly research environmentand the fact that I can discuss mythoughts and ideas with the fullinvolvement of the group. My colleaguesalso provide all the support that I need.

I am working on Optical Chaos, which hasa potential application in securecommunication. The semiconductorlasers are fascinating sources for secureoptical communications using chaos. It ismost relevant for today’s increasingrequirement for secure datatransmission at very fast speed.

After I complete my studies I hope towork with an optimistic group in achallenging research field and also tomake the best use of my knowledge forthe development of Science andTechnology and to utilise it for thewellbeing of mankind.”

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Accounting and Finance (MSc) 48Accounting, Banking, Economics, Finance,

Management Studies (PhD/MPhil) 48Advanced Clinical Practice (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) 62Advanced Social Work (MA/Dip/Cert) 51Advanced Visualization, Virtual Environments

& Computer Animation (MRes) 71Ageing and Dementia Studies (MSc by Research/PhD/MPhil) 67Agricultural Systems (PhD/MPhil) 57Agroforestry (MSc/PhD/MPhil) 57Analytical Chemistry (MSc/PgDip) 70Applied Behaviour Analysis (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) 64Applied Marine Geoscience (MSc) 58Applied Sport and Exercise Physiology (MSc) 65Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology (MSc) 65Applied Sport Science (MSc) 65Applied Sport Science and Outdoor Activities (MSc) 65Archaeology (PhD/MPhil) 36Arthurian Literature (MA/Diploma) 35Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents (PhD/MPhil) 71Astudiaethau Celtaidd/Celtic Studies (PhD/MPhil) 41

Banking and Finance (MA/MSc/MBA) 48, 52Banking and Law (MA/MBA) 48,50Behavioural Neurology and Neuropsychiatry (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) 63, 64Bilingualism (MA/PhD/MPhil) 38Biodiversity Conservation (PhD/MPhil) 57Biological Sciences (PhD/MPhil) 56Broadband and Optical Communications (MSc) 73Business and Marketing (MA) 48Business with Consumer Psychology (MA/MSc) 48

Celtic Archaeology (MA/Diploma) 36Celtic Studies/Astudiaethau Celtaidd (PhD/MPhil) 41Chartered Banker MBA 48, 52Chemistry (MRes/PhD/MPhil) 70Clinical and Functional Brain Imaging (PgCert) 63, 64Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) 64Cognitive Linguistics (MA) 38Communication Networks and Protocols (PhD/MPhil) 71Community Development (MA/Diploma/Certificate) 45Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice (MA/Dip/Cert) 51Composition/Electroacoustic Composition/Sonic Art

(MA/MMus/Diploma) 40Computer Systems (MSc) 71Computing and Internet Systems (MSc) 71Conservation and Land Management (MSc) 57Consumer Psychology with Business (MA/MSc) 48, 64Creative and Critical Writing, Film, Media, New Media, Journalism,Creative Studies, Drama, Professional Writing (PhD/MPhil & PhD/MPhilPractice-Led Research) 34Creative Practice (MA/Diploma) 34Creative Writing (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 35Criminology and Criminal Justice (PhD/MPhil) 51Criminology and Law (MA) 50, 51Criminology and Sociology (MA/Dip/Cert) 51Criminology, Criminal Justice, Social Policy, Sociology (MARes) 51Criminology and Criminal Justice (PhD/MPhil) 51Cymraeg/Welsh (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 41

GENERAL INDEXGENERAL INDEX Accommodation 20Academic Support 8Alumni 11Applying 18Archive of Traditional Welsh Music 32Bangor and Location 26Bangor Business School 48Bangor Business School London Centre 52 Bangor Law School 50Bangor Miles Dyslexia Unit 10Careers and Employability Service 11Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies (CAWMS) 32Centre for Research in Early Music 32Centre for Galician Studies in Wales 32Centre for Medieval Studies 32College of Arts and Humanities 32College of Business, Social Sciences & Law 46College of Education and Lifelong Learning 42College of Health and Behavioural Sciences 60College of Natural Sciences 54College of Physical and Applied Sciences 68Disability Service 10Dyslexia 10ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory & Practice 32Electroacoustic Wales 32Education department 44English Language Requirements 14English Language Support 14Entry Requirements 18Facilities and Resources 22Finance 16Funding 16How to apply 18Information for International Students 12Information Technology Services 23International Centre for Sacred Music Studies (ICSMuS) 32International Research Excellence 4International Student Ambassadors 12Institutes of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) 32Institute of Medical and Social Care Research (IMSCaR) 67Library and Archives Service 22Lifelong Learning department 45

Meet and Greet Service for International Students 12North and Mid-Wales Centre for Teacher Education 42Printing and Binding Unit 23Research Assessment Exercise 4Research Programmes 6Research Students’ Forum 8R.S. Thomas Centre 32Taught Courses 6Tuition Fees 16School of Biological Sciences 56School of Chemistry 70School of Computer Sciences 71School of Creative Studies and Media 34School of Electronic Engineering 73School of English 35School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography 57School of Healthcare Sciences 62School of History and Welsh History 36School of Linguistics and English Language 38School of Medical Sciences 63School of Modern Languages 39School of Music 40School of Ocean Sciences 58School of Psychology 64School of Social Sciences 51School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences 65School of Welsh 41Senior Postgraduate Tutors 8Social Life and Entertainment 28Sport and Fitness 24Student Support Services 10Students’ Union 24Student Welfare Adviser for International Students 12Study Options 6Study Skills 8Subject-Specialist Resources 22Support 8Support for International Students 12Welcome Week for International Students 12Welsh National Centre for Religious Education 42Who chooses to study at Bangor? 30World Education Centre 42The University 3

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Early Modern Literature (MA/Diploma) 35Ecology (MRes) 56Education (PhD/MPhil) 44Education Doctorate Programme (EdD) 44Education Studies (Full-time) (MA/MEd/ Diploma/Certificate) 44Education Studies (Part-time) (MA/MEd/ Diploma/Certificate) 44Electrical Materials Science (PhD/MPhil) 73Electronic Engineering (MSc/MRes) 73Electronic Engineering (Bio-Electronics) (MRes) 73Electronic Engineering (Micromachining) (MRes) 73Electronic Engineering (Microwave Devices) (MRes) 73Electronic Engineering (Nanotechnology) (MRes) 73Electronic Engineering (Optical Communications) (MRes) 73Electronic Engineering (Optoelectronics) (MRes) 73Electronic Engineering (Organic Electronics) (MRes) 73Electronic Engineering Polymer Electronics) (MRes) 73Electronic Engineering (VLSI Design) (MRes) 73English (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 35Environmental and Soil Science (PhD/MPhil) 57Environmental Chemistry (MSc/PgDip) 70Environmental Forestry (MSc) 57Environmental Management* (MBA) 48European Languages and Cultures (MA) 39Executive LLM in Public Procurement Law and Strategy (LLM) 50Exercise Rehabilitation (MSc) 65

Film and Media Studies (MA/Diploma) 34Finance (MA/MSc) 48, 52Forest Ecology and Management (PhD/MPhil) 57Forestry (MSc by Distance Learning) 57Foundations of Clinical Neuropsychology (MSc) 64Foundations of Clinical Psychology (MSc) 64French (PhD/MPhil) 39

German (PhD/MPhil) 39

Health and Social Care Leadership (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) 62Health Economics (MSc by Research/PhD/MPhil) 67Health Science (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) 62Health Services Research (MSc by Research/PhD/MPhil) 67Health Studies/Health Science, Nursing, Midwifery, Radiography &

Allied Health Professions (PhD/MPhil) 62Heritage (PhD/MPhil) 36History (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 36

Implementing Evidence in Health & Social Care (MRes/PgCert) 62Information Management (MBA) 48International Banking and Development Finance (MSc) 48, 52International Commercial and Business Law (LLM/Diploma) 50International Intellectual Property Law (LLM) 50International Law (LLM) 50International Law – specialising in European Law (LLM) 50International Law – specialising in Global Trade Law (LLM) 50International Law – specialising in International Criminal Law

& International Human Rights Law (LLM) 50Islamic Banking and Finance (MA/MSc/MBA) 48, 52Italian (PhD/MPhil) 39

Language Policy and Planning (MA/Dip/Cert) 51Laser Micromachining and Laboratory-on-a-Chip (PhD/MPhil) 73Law (LLM Res/LLM/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 50Law and Banking (LLM) 50Law and Criminology (LLM) 50Law and Management (MBA) 48, 50Linguistics (MA/PhD/MPhil) 38

Management (MBA) 48Management and Finance (MA/MSc) 48Marine Biology (MSc) 58Marine Environmental Protection (MSc) 58Marketing (MBA) 48Media Practice (MA/Diploma) 34Medical Molecular Biology with Genetics (MSc) 56Medical Sciences (MRes) 63Medical Visualization and Simulation (PhD/MPhil) 71Medieval and Early Modern Literature (MA/Diploma) 35Medieval Studies (MA/Diploma) 35Mindfulness-based Approaches (MA/MSc) 64Molecular Biology with Biotechnology (MSc) 56Music (including composition) (PhD/MPhil) 40Music (MA/Diploma) 40Music (Sacred Music Studies) (MA/Diploma) 40

Nanotechnology and Microfabrication (MSc) 73Natural Sciences (MRes) 56Neuroimaging (MSc) 64

Occupational Therapy (PgDip) 62Ocean Sciences (PhD/MPhil) 58Optical Communications (PhD/MPhil) 73Optoelectronics (PhD/MPhil) 73Organic Electronics (PhD/MPhil) 73

Pattern Recognition/Classifiers (PhD/MPhil) 71Performance – Creative Studies and Media (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 34Performance - Music (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 40Physical Oceanography (MSc) 58Policy Research and Evaluation (MA/Dip/Cert) 51Professional and Clinical Education (PgCert) 75Primary Education (Postgraduate Certificate in Education - PGCE) 44Psychological Research (MSc) 64Psychology (MA/MRes/PgCert/PhD) 64Public Health and Health Promotion (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) 62Public Law and Devolved Governments (LLM/Diploma) 50Public Procurement Law and Strategy (LLM) 50

Renewable Materials (PhD/MPhil) 57Research Studentships – Medical Sciences (MPhil/Phd) 63Risk Management in Health and Social Care (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) 62

Secondary Education (Postgraduate Certificate in Education - PGCE) 44Social Policy, Sociology (PhD/MPhil) 51Social Research and Social Policy (MA/Dip/Cert) 51Spanish (PhD/MPhil) 39Sport and Exercise Physiology (MRes/PgCert) 65Sport and Exercise Psychology (BPS Accredited) (MSc) 65Sport and Exercise Psychology (MRes/PgCert) 65Sport and Exercise Science (MRes/PgCert) 65Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences (PhD/MPhil) 65Sustainable Forest and Nature Management

(Erasmus Mundus course) MSc) 57Sustainable Tropical Forestry (Erasmus Mundus course) (MSc) 57

Translation Studies (MA/PhD/PhD by Practice/MPhil/MPhil by Practice) 39Tropical Ecosystems (PhD/MPhil) 57

Welsh/Cymraeg (MA/Diploma) 41Welsh History (MA/Diploma/PhD/MPhil) 36Welsh Music and Celtic Music (MA/Diploma) 40Women's Studies (MA/Diploma/Certificate) 45


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Bangor is on the main train line to Holyhead and is servedby direct trains from London Euston (approx. 3.5 hourstravelling time), Manchester, Birmingham and Cardiff. Thetrain station is a short walk from most of the Universitybuildings.

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IMPORTANTINFORMATION

The University makes all reasonable effortsto ensure that the information in thisbrochure is correct at the time of printing(September 2011).

The University makes all reasonable effortsto provide the courses, tuition and learningsupport, research opportunities and otherservices and facilities with reasonable careand skill and in the way described in thisprospectus.

However, the University shall be entitled if itreasonably considers it to be necessary(including in order to manage its resourcesand to improve the quality of its provision) tomake reasonable changes to this provisionincluding:

• to make change to (for example) thecontent and syllabus of courses andmethods of teaching and assessment(including in relation to placements);

• to suspend or discontinue courses (forexample, because a key member of staff isunwell or leaves the University and cannotreasonably be replaced).

In the unlikely event that the Universitydiscontinues or does not provide a course orchanges it significantly before it begins, theUniversity will tell the relevant individuals atthe earliest possible opportunity. Anindividual will be entitled to withdraw fromthe course by telling the University inwriting within a reasonable time of beinginformed of the change.

The University will make available tostudents such learning support and otherservices and facilities as it considersappropriate but may vary what it providesand how it provides it (for example, theUniversity may consider it desirable tochange the way it provides library or ITsupport).

The willingness of the University to consideran application is no guarantee ofacceptance. Students are admitted to theUniversity on the basis that the informationthey provide in their application form iscomplete and correct.

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