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Become equipped with the skills to find where all the buttons and functions (button pushing) are on the instrument, through setting up increasingly complex series of analyses etc. If you are looking to learn more about your particular instrument as part of your training, please read how we prepare you to learn your instrument.
There are so many in the field of GC, LC and MS. Our courses cover these and when they should be applied. You may think that you don't need to know about every type of technique – perhaps only the ones you´ve seen your predecessors use.
However, often when copying a procedure from a paper, you are assuming that is will be the best method – and it may not be. If you are doing a PhD or Masters degree, you may be asked to justify why you chose this method during your examination – especially if you have not got the results you set out to report.
By teaching you about the techniques and when to apply them, you will be positioned to think through every type of analysis you are ever faced with, and work out the best way to approach it. This will be a life long skill you will be able to take with you throughout your career.
Good analysis starts by looking at what is in samples. Though it easy for this to get overlooked, with the focus usually being on getting on with performing sample analysis in a timely manner.
Knowing what is in your samples helps prepare you for what techniques are best employed. It is a lot easier to analyze samples if you know some information about what you are specifically looking for, what else may hinder you in the samples, and what sort of matrices are present, the standards you can consider, as well as the range of concentrations of target analytes. Sometimes samples will need preparing before analysis.
Sometimes, it is not always possible to know. Nevertheless, sample preparation is an important consideration in helping you see that you are looking for. We cover the approaches, and techniques, where listed, in our courses.
This is an important goal for all analysts. Being able to defend your work means you are confident in your approaches to sample analysis. PhD and masters students will especially need this skill, not just for the thesis, but also for writing publications and the final defense or viva. In some analytical disciplines, like forensics, it is absolutely crucial to be able to accurately defend your analysis.
The approaches taught in our courses will enable you to best defend your techniques of choice for sample analysis, and equip you with the skills to be able to work out approaches for other types of samples too.
In academic and commercial research and development departments, the samples to be analysed may vary enormously. But in some environmental laboratories, for example, water samples collected for environmental analysis may only regularly contain trace analytes when pure. Hence, similar routine methods will often be applied.
However, when a pollution incidence occurs, there suddenly may be large amounts of contaminants present that may render existing analytical methods useless. In these sorts of situations, the trained analyst will be equipped with the skills to develop a new or modify an existing method.
Particularly in environmental and quality assurance laboratories, large sample throughput and the ability to deliver the analytical results may be crucial to retaining or winning new business contracts.
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