…demia. It has been an honour and a pleasure to work with Rob. He is an open, honest, collaborative and professional academic. His approach to metal health and research are impactful and solutions focussed, underpinned by a desire to overcome barriers and to enable all. I know he will continue to develop and to foster the values and the principles of the UA DTA. In my view, he is an excellent UA DTA alumnus. Naomi Burn Teesside University for worki…
…programme. 2018 and 2019 were busy years. We collated PhD project proposals, completed the global recruitment of 70 international fellows, aligned HR practices and audit trails across all the partner universities, all at the same time as delivering an already-established doctoral training programme (DTA). 2020 was expected to begin with the smooth conclusion of our recruitment activities as our final cohort arrived, but this was not to be. The ons…
…ing. It’s not always simple to foster an environment that encourages a new community to bond, especially if you are, like our DTA students, also undertaking PhD research. Yet we shouldn’t see the two as mutually exclusive. Team and remote working will remain a key characteristic of their research careers, whether these evolve in academia or industry, or both. So developing both of these skills together works naturally. Which is why this week, 16 D…
…sk Force, the Research & Development (R&D) Road Map consultation, Innovate UK, the BEIS Committee, Science and Technology committee, and the Education Committee. 12. Our core recommendation to government on care leavers, featured in a comment piece in the Guardian, is now the subject of a feasibility study commissioned by OfS. 13. We contributed to the OfS’s review of digital teaching and learning by holding an interactive session with Sir Michael…
…being withdrawn will inhibit organisations like ours” Kimberley Montgomery, CEO, Novlr Ltd “ERDF Funding has been instrumental in the changes we’ve been able to make to see a step change in our growth. We would not have been in a position to take a risk on R&D without it.” Chloe Donovan, Managing Director, Natural Building Systems “As a start-up company with limited resources our KEEP+ project allowed us to tap into a rich and diverse pool of aca…
…ough one of these industry partners, Exergy Ltd, that he first came to the UK, when he was hired as their Research and Business Director. A collaborative research project with Teesside University eventually brought him full circle, back to academia. He is now a Senior Research Lecturer in Teesside’s Engineering Department and is responsible for project acquisition as well as managing a number of research projects. He says that working in industry…
…met. As the HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey highlights, commuter students may end up less satisfied with their experience and be more likely to consider leaving than their on-campus peers. What can universities do to improve this? Isolating factors to work on is a start. In HEPI’s report on ‘commuter students’, Maguire and Morris highlight two factors that universities should take into account when considering commuting studen…
…dshire Addressing concerns around the safety of women and girls across the UK, this project enabled collaboration between the University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Hertfordshire County Council and Crimestoppers – to investigate a number of projects focused on preventing violence against women and girls. DTA Alumni Award For the DTA alumnus who has demonstrated their commitment to one or more of the UA principl…
…rofessor Kathleen Lewis. Two decades of continuous research have created a comprehensive, independently verified database for pesticide risk assessments, which has now been viewed over 7.5 million times. The database has enabled several governments to introduce policy changes reducing the use of harmful pesticides in agriculture and helped to protect water quality. It has also provided evidence to underpin United Nations treaties that ban the sale…
…e need to move to is recognising that: a) that will put a lot of people off, especially women, who don’t want to make that choice and b) it is not necessarily the best way of working. I think it’s time to celebrate quality over quantity and ensure equality of opportunity to all scientists, even those who choose to work part time. Working flexibly and part time allows us all to be more fully human and I think that our science is all the better for…
