Professor Susan Brooks is Professor of Cell Biology in the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences and Director of Researcher Development for Oxford Brookes University. Tell us a bit about your career in science and how you came to focus on your specialism. Having done a BSc in Biology at the University of Nottingham, I […]
Surya is a third-year MSCA DTA3/COFUND Energy fellow, studying at the University of Hertfordshire Tell us a bit about your career in science and how you came to focus on your specialism. I have always preferred to study something which I can see or feel in my everyday life, which has an impact on the […]
Professor Linda King is Professor of Virology and the Pro Vice Chancellor of Research and Global Partnerships at Oxford Brookes University Tell us a bit about your career in science and how you came to focus on your specialism. I started a DPhil in insect virology in 1982 and have been studying viruses ever since. […]
Dr. Dannielle Green is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University Tell us a bit about your career in science and how you came to focus on your specialism. I am a marine ecologist and an expert in plastic pollution research. During my PhD in Dublin, Ireland, I lived by […]
Professor Sarah Barman is Professor of Computer Vision at the School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kingston University. Tell us a bit about your career in science and how you came to focus on your specialism. My research specialism is medical image analysis and my interest in this developed by chance. I was in the […]
First published in University Business on 15th November 2021 Prof Jane Harrington, vice-chancellor of Greenwich University and board member of University Alliance, says urgent government funding is needed to scale up university-industry research partnerships to find net-zero solutions As world leaders return from COP26 with commitments on how they will tackle climate change, it’s important […]
This autumn, Alliance members are coming together to launch the new DTA Future Societies, which is supporting solutions-driven research that tackles the world’s most pressing challenges, with projects guided by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The collaborative research environment of the DTA Future Societies will nurture the potential of our doctoral researchers to generate […]
First published in Air Quality News on 29th October 2021 Dr Jo Barnes, Senior Research Fellow at UWE Bristol explains why COP26 must address air quality as well as climate change. While all eyes will be on the UK’s hosting of COP26 it is important that this vital international summit considers a dual focus on […]
First published in The Grocer New research shows how shoppers can be educated to think more about food and prevent waste, says Dr Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, associate professor in consumer psychology at Anglia Ruskin University The UK forecourt fuel ‘shortage’ and the panic-buying during the first national lockdown are striking and powerful reminders to supermarkets and […]
As the UK’s Elsevier Negotiation Team reject Elsevier’s (the largest publisher of UK research) most recent proposal on access to their publications for academics – for both reading and publishing – University Alliance CEO Vanessa Wilson pledges UA’s support: Our universities are fully committed to the approach being taken by the UK’s Elsevier Negotiation Team and support the […]
