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  1. SPARK social enterprise at University of Brighton

    …llaborate with. Demonstrating and communicating this impact to the outside world can be difficult. Social enterprise benefit from assistance in marketing their vision and demonstrating additional value, both economic and social, to consumers and other stakeholders. As such, there is scope for training and support in robust and user-friendly impact assessment and evaluation techniques. Support through the innovation system of their region/country/E…

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  2. Closing the Gap: unlocking opportunity through higher education

    …ate outcomes students need up-to-date information and experience of labour market opportunities, particularly as it relates to different local labour markets. Universities should do everything they can to engage with a diverse range of employers, to strengthen links between education and the needs of the economy and to offer the best opportunities to their students and graduates, whatever background they may come from. 4. Misinformation about futu…

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  3. Groundhog Day: Managing Motivation when Working from Home

    …ou hit your flow), experiment and find what works best for you. Tiny tasks Breaking my goals into very small tangible tasks helped to reduce the overwhelming sense of swimming through treacle. Instead of telling myself, “Today I will write the background chapter,” I began to break it down into smaller tasks.   Ticking these smaller tasks of the list shows progress and can make that overarching goal no longer feel insurmountable. Dedicated workspac…

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  4. Celebrating the very best of DTA creativity and research talent at the Images of Research Awards

    …for older adults. Cecilia Gialdini (Social Policy, Ulster University) was runner up for the judges with ‘Linguistic justice for the world’ which conveyed her research about how states implement just and fair language policies. The winner of the People’s Choice was Ifrah Mussa (Energy, Kingston University), whose image ‘The snow never bothered me anyway!’ (pictured below) taken while at the WinterWind 2020 conference in Sweden, was inspired by her…

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  5. A new manifesto for UK research

    …strong in health, engineering, technology and design – areas that remain crucial for today’s growing industries. Twenty per cent of our research staff join us from industry, giving us a head start in understanding what business needs – and responding to this. Alliance universities also have strong – and growing – international connections. Nearly a quarter of our research funding comes from outside the UK – this is five per cent above the sector…

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  6. Chip[s] Board® : Kingston University

    …d chemical engineer. Rob and Rowan hope they can make a real impact on the world, and they want Chip[s] Board® to inspire more young people to find creative solutions to issues affecting the world. Chip[s] Board® has won a Creative Conscience gold award, the July Shell LiveWIRE competition and the product has been exhibited in Los Angeles and featured on a BBC4 TV show. Since the awards were first launched, Santander Universities has funded more t…

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  7. University Alliance is delighted to welcome The Open University

    …io series a year, such as Life Story, Secret Life of Books, Cyber Crimes, Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, Child of Our Time, The Bottom Line and Inside the Commons. Regarded as Britain’s major e-learning institution, the OU is a world leader in developing technology to increase access to education on a global scale. Its vast ‘open content portfolio’ includes over 800 free courses on OpenLearn, which receives 4.5 million visitors a year, and materials on Y…

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  8. Birmingham City University collaborates on first HuffPost Centre for Journalism

    …the first centre of it’s kind HuffPost will help design modules with real-world challenges, lead tutorials on news, lifestyle, politics and entertainment, and host talks. Students will also be given the opportunity of work experience in the newsroom alongside the HuffPost editorial team. Jess Brammar, Executive Editor of HuffPost UK: “We couldn’t be more thrilled to be partnering with Birmingham City University to welcome students to the HuffPost…

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  9. Graduate recruitment survey is good news for graduates and the economy

    …r of the average English graduate start-up company. As well as building on today’s good news about graduate employability we will continue to work with Government to ensure it creates the right environment for new start-ups.” / end. Notes for editors Examples of a different approach to graduate employability: Nottingham Trent University is one of the top ten universities in England and Wales for graduate employment with nearly 95% of its students…

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  10. The missing piece of Sunak’s puzzle? Degree apprentices

    …of the prime minister’s commitment and were not specifically mentioned in today’s summer statement. Degree apprenticeships are a vital rung on the ladder of opportunity. We consistently hear from parents and young people that progression pathways are essential to making apprenticeships an attractive route for young people. Degree apprenticeships are not only vital to ensuring that parity of esteem exists between academic and vocational routes, bu…

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