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

    October 21, 2020

    …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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  2. The DTA is Intersectoral- Part 2

    January 14, 2020

    …en from over 150 PhD students and early career researchers from around the world. Participants attended from the world’s leading universities and industrial organisations including Berkley, MIT, Imperial, Rolls Royce, Mitsubishi and the International Atomic Energy Agency. The two weeks kicked off with an icebreaker challenge, to construct the tallest possible spaghetti structure, which could hold the weight of a marshmallow, which my team won. At…

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  3. Regional Investment, European Funding and Defining Value: The Future Challenges for Research

    December 18, 2019

    …d increase in the number of postgraduate and early career researchers. The rumoured shake-up across Whitehall may create new departments that as a sector we need to quickly and effectively make our case to. Defining value The humanities and social sciences are often at the forefront of my mind when I think about research collaborations with Europe. Alliance universities are delivering research across a range of contemporary themes, from health and…

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  4. #Weareinternational blog: Ivy Ct Yu

    November 4, 2022

    …motivation throughout the course and Ivy regularly used her skills to make new clothes for him as well as giving new life to old ones. Ivy’s final collection had a strong emphasis on sustainability, working closely with a knitting factory and using only deadstock Merino yarns to create tailored jackets. She said: “I asked if I could re-purpose the yarns, I don’t want to see all that waste just lying there ready to be chucked away. “If you can find…

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  5. The DTA is Intersectoral- Part 4

    January 27, 2020

    …ich means that it has a defined beginning and an end, goals, objectives, deliverables, resources, delivery plan. Although publicly funded organisations worked differently in the past, with financial pressures, they are now having to adapt and adopt project based organisation.” His understanding of industry needs, has also had a more specific impact on the work he does at Teesside. He says, “My previous experience has guided me to streamline my min…

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  6. Collaboration will be key in delivering the NHS Workforce Plan

    July 5, 2023

    …ortant, it will not encourage health and social care employers to consider new roles or how practitioners could be deployed in different ways. Therefore, we need new ways of thinking about the existing workforce and how an increasing workforce need can be met. If we continue to ask ourselves do we need more nurses, doctors or midwives, then the answer will always be yes. If the question is changed to ‘who is best to deliver healthcare and where do…

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  7. Universities should be partners in shaping the levelling up agenda

    January 7, 2022

    …er education ‘cold spot’. ARU Peterborough is a partnership between Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), and Peterborough City Council (PCC) and this investment is hugely important for the region: the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) area has just 24% of 18-24 year-olds in full-time education, compared to 33% nationally. Phase 1 of the construction, which is backed by…

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  8. Bringing Researchers Together: The DTA Spring School

    May 15, 2019

    …isors as well. Invited alongside their researchers, the supervisors of our new recruits attended their own schedule of events including a session on connections and collaboration, allowing them to forge links with colleagues from across University Alliance core and programme members sparking future potential joint projects. Across the two days, the Spring School also provided our new doctoral researchers with a practical introduction to the DTA an…

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  9. Supporting student mental health during the pandemic and beyond

    March 3, 2021

    …nts and the knock-on effect it has on their wellbeing. Many students are struggling financially after losing vital part-time work while the pandemic has also exposed the true scale of digital poverty in the UK. The sector has responded by offering hardship funding, digital support and accommodation refunds to students. At UWE Bristol, we’ve invested over £1.9 million in a new grant scheme for students who need IT equipment and spent over £7 millio…

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  10. Stronger Together: Building A University Alliance For The Future

    May 10, 2019

    …more providers that sit outside the existing representative organisations. And above all I want to build alliances beyond higher education, to campaign on issues because they’re the right priorities for the economy and society and to link the values we espouse with the reality of the UK today. The best athletes are driven to deliver their very best from those around them. More unites than divides us within higher education and us with further edu…

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