…rch 2020 to work closely with the CEO with focus on UA operations, staffing, finance, strategy and membership engagement and retention. Katharine D’Souza Research and Data Analyst Katharine joined University Alliance in September 2021 as the Research and Data Analyst within the Policy team. Jennie Eldridge Head of Doctoral Training Programmes Jennie joined University Alliance in October 2015 as part of the new Doctoral Training Alliance team. Laur…
…AIKE) unit links experts on regional transformation and development in the UK, China, and India. In addition, universities are making significant investments into local innovation infrastructure. The capital investment of Coventry University and the University of Warwick, both situated in the West Midlands, is in the region of £1 billion, ten times the amount the LEP receives. Coventry and the Unipart Group are jointly investing in a £32 million E…
…tunities and benefits for her career. As she put it, “It was my dream to become a scientist, hopefully working in a research centre. In the UK there are lots of opportunities for research scientists and it is a recognised marker around the world.” Arantza’s research crosses barriers between Chemistry and Biology, as well as academia and professional research, as her PhD is run jointly by UCLan and the Pirbright Institute, a research facility looki…
…auO6w7sBmU&t=60s Twelve automated guided vehicles (AGVs) transport food, linen, medicines and other supplies around the hospital 24/7. Steered by GPS and operating lifts, they have quickened deliveries to wards and reduced injuries to porters. The hospital’s pathology lab uses automated technology to move and test blood samples, after they are transported underground via pneumatic tube from wards. The hospital’s pharmacy also uses three automa…
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…ity. We were excited to launch a new DTA Future Societies programme as well, welcoming 26 new doctoral researchers and around 40 new supervisors to the DTA network. We had campaign successes, with our Powering Action on Climate Change campaign launched to coincide with COP26. The campaign has delivered a sweep of media coverage for our member’s work on climate change. We collaborated with Creative UK to publish a letter in The Telegraph calling fo…
…fund university accommodation fees, direct student funding to those in need, commissioning a welfare check ins for every student, providing training for staff to deliver their programmes completely online and providing extensive mental health support to students and staff. and diverting approx. Jane invested approximately £3million in funding to our covid response. • This was communicated to stakeholders via multiple platforms including video, Ins…
…in broccoli. One of these probes uses rhodamine to create a brilliant pink compound, whose fluorescence should help identify key biological interactions of sulforaphane. Our Microbes and Us James Robson, University of the West of England Trillions of bacteria inhabit our GI tract, exerting beneficial and harmful effects. This image shows Fusobacterium nucleatum (the thin strands) growing around mucin (the dark globules) at the air liquid interface…
…upport at their home institutions, but also a broader professional community, spanning all 20 partner universities. The DTA is the largest nationwide doctoral training initiative across the UK, and currently benefits from funding through Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Doctoral Fellowship programme. For more information, visit the DTA website….
…and exploit creative innovation, and it is perhaps precisely this which makes its presence within STEM disciplines so important, compelling and promising….
