About The Program
Got a research topic you've always wanted to pursue? Take your curiosity and ideas to Scotland, where you'll build a strong relationship with faculty mentors on a program that mimics graduate school. No large lecture halls and no anonymity. You'll focus on a single research topic in chemistry, creative writing, history, life sciences, philosophy, or psychology, and present your results in the form of a research article at a mock conference. On weekends, dance the lively Scottish cèilidh to traditional folk music, visit a 13th-century castle, hike in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. This is a six-week program that leaves plenty of summer open for trips throughout Europe.
Where you'll study
Attend the alma mater to some of the world’s most renowned innovators: physicist and engineer Lord Kelvin, economist Adam Smith, and pioneer of television John Logie Baird. Among the UK’s earliest universities, parts of the University of Glasgow feel like a set out of a Harry Potter movie. On your way to classes, you’ll pass by elegant spires, gothic-arched windows, epic colonnades, and halls where Albert Einstein once lectured. In other areas, you’ll find the modern labs, sleek steel and glass structures, and top-tier facilities one would expect at a leading school for international research. The main campus is located in the posh West End of Glasgow about two miles from the city center.
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From The Californian Abroad
The Summer Research in Glasgow program gave me the opportunity to conduct a laboratory research project with a degree of independence that would be challenging to acquire elsewhere. Doing research abroad gave me a glimpse into the research culture of Scotland and, more broadly, Western Europe, which is particularly useful given the current state of life sciences research in the States.