…Stress and Pheromonatherapy in Small Animal Clinical Behaviour. The team’s work is acknowledged in the recommendations for animal care by many animal charities including the RSPCA. The use of pheromones in mainstream veterinary practice is included in most key textbooks as a result of the research conducted at Lincoln. Image credit: Oliver head on view by Mr.TinDC Back to Real World Impact…
…of Champions Award. Throughout its construction, the team worked alongside mainstream construction companies and local government bodies as part of a wider strategy to raise public awareness and show that eco-homes and buildings did not need to be seen as a highly specialised subset of construction. Professor Sodagar, the Centre’s Director, also helped found the Construction Emissions Community of Practice, a voluntary and inclusive group of consu…
…ese components, including localised excessive turbulence and velocity, the main causes of noise and erosion problems. This success has led to other benefits for both the University and their industrial partner. In the past two years, four graduates have been employed by the company as full-time engineers and every year Weir employs two placement students. They are now working on extending their collaboration via another Knowledge Transfer Partners…
…versity Alliance, said in a statement to Research Fortnight that funding excellence wherever it is found “is a very important principle as it allows the UK to maximise the impact of limited public monies”. Ansell also says that the alliance was pleased that the grant letter recognises that the Higher Education Innovation Fund [which is allocated for knowledge exchange activities] delivers an excellent return on investment. However, she is calling…
…ould lead to numerous benefits for our country – ensuring our universities maintain our market share in global higher education and enhance the UK’s higher education offer. These international students would fill crucial skills gaps and help our economy to grow. And once they return home, they help build vital global links for the future. What Mrs May seems to overlook – which Mr Osborne, former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts and…
…n public spending is under scrutiny. “Previous funding decisions have been right to seek out and fund the teams doing leading research rather than picking winners at an institutional level,” he said. The best way to maintain the UK’s global standing as a research nation is to continue funding excellence “wherever it is found”, he argued. Read our full statement and coverage of Alliance universities’s REF results here….
…l. “In particular we welcome the steer for Sir Paul Nurse’s review that “excellence must remain a fundamental value of UK science” and that the Research Councils should have the right “capabilities and structures” to deliver this. Of course, achieving efficiencies will continue to be vital but as part of this we should make sure that our funding bodies have the appropriate resources to generate the best possible outcomes from -public investment. I…
…strengths, which they do successfully. An element of competition ensures excellence-seeking is embedded within the ecosystem. For example, individual players across the system know where the expertise and excellence within their field lies and they will seek to work with them. Collaboration This selectivity results in complementary expertise across the ecosystem, working against unnecessary duplication and resulting in interdependency. This interd…
…research and innovation ecosystem. Professor Andrew Wathey, Lead Vice-Chancellor for Research Policy, University Alliance, and Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, Northumbria University who is chairing the roundtable, said: “This is an important time for UK research with a number of landmark events, including the Science and Innovation Strategy and the announcement of the REF results, now fast approaching. They will have a significant impact on…
…public subsidy on those loans. At present the student loan system focuses mainly on young undergraduates studying their first degree. This excludes a large proportion of people who could improve their career prospects by undertaking postgraduate courses or studying part-time. Businesses, schools, hospitals and more are all losing out from the vast potential for these people to become better qualified, to retrain in a different career and acquire…
