Placement or research year
To further increase your employability and international experience, we offer full-time students the opportunity to take a placement or research year. This means that your course will take two years, but you’ll be graduating with work experience.
Placement
The year on placement in a role related to your course will allow you to put all that you have learned on your masters into practice, enhancing your career opportunities and giving you practical experience in your area of expertise.
The placement is assessed formatively throughout the year, giving you the chance to reflect on your experience and build your CV.
Work placements are optional, and you’ll arrange your placement with support from our dedicated Placements and Employability team.
Research
You will undertake in-depth independent research aligned with the expertise of the course team and distinct from taught modules and final project. You will critically analyse complex concepts theories and evidence and gain advanced research skills preparing you for further study or research-led professional roles.
You’ll be encouraged to produce research that is suitable for peer review, focusing on topics that are strategically aligned with conferences and journals, so that you might be published when you finish your course.
Meet the team
course leader
Dr Goran Soldar has more than 25 years of teaching experience in HE. For the last 20 years he has been with the 国产探花 where he has been involved in teaching and course leadership at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
He is course leader of the Computer Science BSc(Hons) and Computer Science MSc, and his main interests are in programming languages, mainly Java and database systems.
Goran teaches programming and data structures at postgraduate level and enterprise application development on the undergraduate programme, using the latest Jakarta EE technologies and tools for developing, building and deploying software on Linux and Windows platforms. His research interests are in developing frameworks for distributed systems and big data processing.
As a course leader, Goran provides academic and personal support to students. His office door is always open to students wishing to discuss any academic or personal issue, or just wanting an informal chat.
Other teaching staff