…to be sent to our key stakeholders. If you would like to take part in the competition, or to advertise it to those who might please either link to this page or send the below details out. Please note that this competition is only open to staff and students from Alliance universities. Overview: To design the front cover for University Alliance’s 2011 Christmas card. The winner, as well as designing our new card, will receive a £50 Amazon gift vouc…
…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 this point, I had no idea that I would be the only participant to be a member of every winning team over the next…
…ed to level 2 (GCSE A*-C and equivalent) or below. Labour Force Survey data, 2010 [3] Wilson T, Review of Business-University Collaboration, February 2012 http://www.wilsonreview.co.uk/review/ [4] http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/autumn_statement.pdf [5] Wilson T, Review of Business-University Collaboration, February 2012 http://www.wilsonreview.co.uk/review/ [6] Wilson T, Review of Business-University Collaboration, February 2012 http://www.wilsonre…
…nd create pathways that give students the skills of both. There is, however, a competing narrative – equally compelling. This one points out the grand challenges facing humanity: climate change, population growth, food security, microbial resistance. We are living unsustainable lives but we carry on partly because it’s really hard to change and partly because most of us are crossing our fingers that some people somewhere are carrying out the resea…
…working collaboratively on a new doctoral training scheme built around joint research strengths in Applied Biosciences for Health. This will involve industry in design and delivery to ensure that researchers emerge with skills relevant to industry. “We also welcome the UK-wide competitive fund for new cutting-edge science facilities. Sustained investment is central to the success of the research and innovation ecosystem. But, as we argue in the re…
…ement Award With thanks to our judges: Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President, UK, TechnologyOne; Stephanie Harris, Director of Strategy, Insight and Member Engagement, Universities UK Shortlisted nominees: June Hughes, University Secretary and Registrar, University of Derby Professor Joy Notter, Professor of Community Health Care, Birmingham City University Reverend Vaughan Rees, Chaplain & Director of Chaplaincy Services, University of South Wal…
…be selective. By which we mean the best research, identified through open competition, is funded. Decision-makers throughout the system will always be tempted to give themselves the power to allocate funds based on prejudice, patronage or politics. Or even administrative ease. But we would be absurdly arrogant to think that we can compete with the rest of the world if our researchers don’t even have to win a domestic contest. We need to be collab…
…to be sent to our key stakeholders. If you would like to take part in the competition, or to advertise it to those who might, please either link to this page or send the below details out. Please note that this competition is only open to staff and students from Alliance universities. Overview: To design the front cover for University Alliance’s 2012 Christmas card. The winner, as well as designing our new card, will receive a £50 Amazon gift vou…
…tudents on why the international element of the programme is so important: This programme has been extended following a €6.5million award from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND Doctoral scheme, opening it up specifically to international researchers. The third round of recruitment under this extended DTA3 programme is now open. …
…ach other’s projects in more depth. We had the choice to share our work as oral, Pecha-Kucha-style or poster presentations, and the themes – how our research relates to the world outside the university and the interdisciplinary element of our projects – helped reveal shared interests and methods across our projects. The interactive poster session in WonderRoom was particularly fun. We learnt a lot about the work of peers outside of our disciplinar…
