Our Aquaculture Courses
Seaweed
Whether you're looking boost your skills, meet a compliance requirement or embark on a longer term learning journey, we've got you covered.
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Seaweed Academy
The Seaweed Academy is the UK’s only dedicated seaweed industry facility offering a complete package of training, education, and business development – a one-stop-shop for supporting expansion and skills development for the seaweed aquaculture industry.
Providing a truly innovative and holistic service to the sector, the Seaweed Academy will offer:
• Research and technical input on issues such as disease management
• Developments and assistance in the field of social and commercial licencing
• Support in establishing a commercial business
• Cryopreservation of strains in the CCAP
• Technical courses through Argyll College such as sea safety and manual handling
Visit seaweedacademy.co.uk for more information.
Short Courses
Our short courses are aimed at getting you up to speed in areas such as Fish Health or Workboats.
Short Courses are available to individuals and businesses and delivery can be in-person or online.
Check out our list of Aquaculture Short Courses and register today.
College and University Qualifications
- Aquaculture Management CPD (Continuing Professional Development)
is for experienced aquaculture staff looking to progress into management roles or anyone with professional interest in the industry. Study takes less than a year, is fully online and covers a range of modules (at SCQF-8 = Higher National Diploma).
- BSc (Hons) Marine Science course (4-years)
includes aquaculture, fisheries, ecology, marine environmental impact assessment, ocean science and management. Special features include opportunities to exit with Arctic Studies, Marine Biology or Oceanography and Robotics and a chance to spend one or two semesters at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) Spitzbergen, Coastal Carolina, or at another partner university.
Postgraduate and Research
ACES is an amazing 2-year programme that allows an international group of students to study aquaculture in Scotland (semester 1), Crete (Greece, semester 2) and Nantes (France, semester 3) with intensive involvement from industry.
Algae produce much of the oxygen we breath and underpin aquatic food chains, but they also have important current and potential roles in pharmaceuticals, pigments, nutraceuticals, biofuels, enzymes, fertilisers, and bioremdiation materials. On this 1-year course you will learn many research approaches, micro and macro-algal species cultivation, biotechnology, genomics, metabolomics, and will undertake a dissertation project
This demanding Master of Research programme is built on the student choosing and carrying out a full-time 1-year research project that culminates in the submission of a written thesis.
- MSc by Research - 1-year full-time research projects (two-year part-time) with a number of areas of focus to choose from.
PhDs
There are a wide variety of on-going PhD programmes covering many areas related to aquaculture.
Please see our postgraduate research opportunities page to view current PhD opportunities.
Aquaculture into Schools
UHI Shetland works with local secondary schools to deliver a National Progression Award (NPA) in Aquaculture. The course brings pupils into College and develops the necessary skills for a future career within the salmon farming industry. Set at SCQF levels 4 and 5, the NPA takes a vocational approach with, much of the delivery taking place, where possible, at aquaculture sites.
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