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Advanced Chemical CharacterisationChemistrySummer SchoolBristol, UK
18 July – 8 August 2020
Course Overview
Week 1 Chemistry & the Lab Notebook
Week 2 Chemistry & the Lab Report
Course Overview
Week 3 Presenting your findings
7.45am Breakfast in residence
8.40am Leave for campus
9am Academic English for Chemistry class
10.30am Break
11am Chemistry labs (with lunch taken during experiments)
5pm/5.30pm End of labs/class: walk back to residence
6.30pm Dinner in residence
7pm Free time, homework or a social activity
11pm Quiet Hours
A typical day (Monday-Friday)
Academic programme
School of Chemistry
Accredited by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the University of Bristol’s School of Chemistry has world-class
facilities and global recognition.
The School of Chemistry is the UK’s only Chemistry-based Centre for
Excellent in Teaching in Learning, considered excellent and outstanding.
Innovation, professional standards and the development of practical skills
through hands-on experiments underpin teaching.
Research themes are: Chemical and Synthetic Biology
Synthesis and Catalysis Functional Molecules and Materials
Computational Chemistry, Theory and Dynamics
Environment and Energy
Ranked 4th in the UK in
the 2015 REF/ 2014
RAE
Approximately 70
faculty members
54 Support and
Technical staff
100 – 120 Postdoctoral
researchers
240 PhD students
Approximately 700
undergraduate students
3-year BSc and
(various) 4-year MSci
degrees
Chemistry in the summer
• Acquisition and processing of data
from advanced analytical
instruments including
NMR, MS, EM/AFM Imaging,
X-Ray/Crystallography and Mass
Spectrometry
Individual practical and
instrumentation experiences
Up to six hours of labs a day
Directly related to academic
English classes
Experiment 1: Grignard reactivity
Experiment 2: Three-component Passerini reaction Experiment 3: Stereochemistry of iodolactonisation
Experiment 4: Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling
Computational exercise
Introduction to Gaussview
molecular modelling package
Week 1 4-hour Experiments
Introduction to labs and
computer-based exercises
on NMR spectra and Reaxys
Weeks 2 and 3Instrumentation Sessions
Integrated training in materials
synthesis, characterisation and
data analysis
Materials Chemistry Experiments:
polymers, oxide ceramics and metal
nanoparticles
Hands-on Advanced Characterisation Practicals:
SEM, TEM, AFM, GC-MS
Data Analysis Workshops:
interpreting NMR spectra and single-crystal X-
ray diffraction data (Olex2)
Academic English for Chemistry
Working with lab books
Scientific language
Presentations
Writing experiments and research
Literature search
The tutors from the Centre for Academic Language and Development are all highly experienced, discipline-focused instructors
accredited by BALEAP
Teaching style marked by small-group learning
Four pre-arrival online activities and a brief online conversation help to prepare students
ahead of their arrival to the UK
English-language classes focused on
Outside the Lab and ClassroomAccommodation, Meals and Support
Student support team
A student mentor
will support
students
throughout the
programme.
They are a current
University of Bristol
Chemistry student.
The International
Office provides
additional support,
including 24-7 on-
call support.
Students will stay in a single-room in Goldney Hall,
located in Clifton and about a 15-minute walk to campus.
Life at the University of Bristol
Goldney Hall is a secure residence, with multiple access
point, and live-in staff. Quiet hours start at 11pm.
Students will stay in single-gender apartments, normally
for 8 people with 2 bathrooms and toilets. Towels and
linens are provided and there is free wifi throughout.
Hot breakfasts and dinners are included throughout and
students can make and store food in the kitchen space
located in each apartment.
Bristol Activities
Locked in a Room
Several dinners out at local restaurants
Street Art tour and creation session
Our exciting social programme will help students explore the vibrant city of Bristol as well as some
regional highlights.
Daytrips
Berkeley Castle and the Cotswolds
London and the Tower of London
Social Programming
For further information please contact
+44 (0) 117 428 3070