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  1. Polling the public to inform our strategic planning to the recovery response

    June 12, 2020

    The coronavirus pandemic has touched just about every aspect of our lives and it is certain that we will witness lasting economic, social, cultural and health implications for decades to come. With every political and policy agenda item now being addressed through this lens, we must be prepared to reframe our work to speak to this ‘new normal’. It was against this backdrop and amidst preparations for the looming emergency budget that we commissio…

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    Vanessa Wilson CEO

  2. DTA Summer School 2021 – coming together to explore interdisciplinarity

    September 2, 2021

    …oventry University. I’m from the DTA energy cohort and my research is on renewable energy, specifically converting organic matter into renewable gas.                 My name is Laura Leston Pinilla and I am a second year Bioscience DTA3 COFUND researcher at Nottingham Trent University. I investigate novel therapies for Parkinson’s Disease.         The workshops, keynotes and researcher presentations gave us the chance to reflect on the interdiscip…

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  3. Groundhog Day: Managing Motivation when Working from Home

    March 3, 2021

    …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. Lifelong Learning – is it worth the hard yards?

    May 16, 2023

    …proffering workable solutions to complex issues, and now is one of those crucial times where early engagement could help steer a more favourable path through the quagmire. The LLE, on the face of it, captures everything Alliance universities are good at: increasing access and participation amongst disadvantaged groups; addressing regional and national skills needs to boost economic growth; and delivering the skills and knowledge required for the…

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  5. Digital teaching and learning: time for a blended approach

    March 2, 2021

    …ng in both the short and long term. As institutions become more adept at delivering new ways of learning and teaching, there is a lot the sector can learn from the review. Whilst nothing can completely replace face to face learning and on campus activity, UA institutions have amassed a wealth of evidence on delivering learning and teaching digitally. These include using new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and augmented/virtual reality…

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  6. In conversation with business leaders: here’s what SMEs like mine need from the Chancellor

    March 13, 2023

    …of building a business? Innovation doesn’t have to be radical or about disrupting whole sectors – but clear differentiation from competitors is essential. Focusing on a single USP (unique selling point) is outdated. Innovation needs to be on-going. Chater Smart uses a proprietary recruitment methodology which has been fine-tuned over 20 years; think constant iteration. This methodology now produces consistently high success rates and peace of min…

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  7. #WeAreInternational blog: Vignesh Velmurugan

    October 19, 2022

    …ational — Helping stroke survivors through robotics project – Vignesh Velmurugan Vignesh Vignesh Velmurugan grew up in Chennai, India, where he completed his bachelor’s degree in engineering before pursuing an ERASMUS+ funded master’s programme in Europe, studying in both France and Poland. He then applied to join the University of Hertfordshire to continue his research in medical robotics, where is currently studying for a PhD. “I have always bee…

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    Vignesh

  8. For Students: What is the Teaching Excellence Alliance?

    June 17, 2018

    …To develop students equipped with the skills and aptitudes to succeed in a world shaped by next generation technology by supporting staff to improve their teaching practice and develop innovative courses To demonstrate that Alliance universities are world leaders in professional and technical education for sustained student success by evidencing our success. We are looking for students to support and challenge this work in order to ensure that we…

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  9. Collaboration and the social dimension at the heart of innovation

    July 10, 2023

    …d. As a result, students – particularly underrepresented students – were struggling to find work in the screen industries. I knew in that moment, that I had to do something, but I also knew I could not do anything on my own. And so began my ‘Connect, Collaborate and Co-Create’ strategy, to bring normally ‘siloed’ stakeholders together, to work collaboratively to tackle shared problems, and to co-create solutions that would benefit everyone involve…

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    Dr Eddie McCaffrey

  10. Placed-based innovation at RGU Orkney

    November 29, 2023

    …as an entrepreneurial and innovative culture which lends itself to testing new and varied ideas. As an island group, it offers variety through its mix of towns, rural mainland areas and outer islands, each with differing demographics, service requirements and landscape. Orkney is large enough for projects to lend scale to research proposals yet small enough for those projects to be truly transformational. Robert Gordon University (RGU) plays a sig…

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    Elsa Cox