…een academia and journalism, why Black and Global Majority academics are often reluctant to take media interviews, and advice for academics on how best to conduct themselves when engaging with the press. Watch the full launch event recording below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaafg7OhIAE&t=1392s …
…programme of Stanley Johnson, the prime minister’s father, as an “environmentalist” caused quite a stir. After all, the UK’s universities are full of academics admirably well qualified to comment on the climate crisis. Why hadn’t the BBC given one of them a call? But even if it had, it is likely that the figure the producers plumped for, while better qualified than Johnson to advise on how to avert catastrophe, would not have looked or sounded va…
…It has been a long journey, during which they have had to negotiate the challenges of the Covid epidemic affecting their studies and, in many cases, impacting their roles as leading senior nurses in our NHS. Five themes The Chief Nursing Officer outlined five themes which should underpin the research strategy: alignment with public need, release of nurses’ research potential, building the best research system, developing future nurse leaders of r…
…earch and knowledge exchange that utilises RGU expertise to tackle local challenges. Supporting the development of skills, education, and entrepreneurship opportunities in Orkney. Creating an evidence base to influence policy and practice in other remote rural regions through innovative research and teaching programmes. The plan aims to help the local community in Orkney while also contributing to the development of remote rural regions. Research…
…itutions like Oxford Brookes and Teesside, which are doing critical work realising the benefits of vaccine discovery to support the success of the country’s vaccination effort. The applied focus of their research has meant they have been able to use their business partnerships to commercialise the vaccination research, support skills development and facilitate the logistics of manufacturing the products at scale. This has been particularly valuabl…
…andemic UA institutions have risen to the challenge and undertaken a phenomen*]}*al amount of work to support their local communities” Dionne Lee, Policy and Projects Manager Teesside University. This has included the delivery of volunteering initiatives by staff and students to support vulnerable groups, such as the donation of resources and supplies for food banks by Teesside University. The University of Hertfordshire have been running law clinics…
…is Community in Research?’. The speakers, Dr Heather Sears, Professor Amin Al-Habaib, Dr Anna Seabourne, Dr Ellie Crabtree, Professor Mark Devenney, Professor Michael Cole, myself and Udit Tiwari discussed what research community means to them. This session was followed by exhibition networking, which allowed the participants to move around the room and see the displayed posters of the images which represented their research. This session sparked…
…r’s competition highlighted that developing the ability to present evidence-based scientific arguments to the wider public is particularly pressing for early career researchers. Through summarising their research in a single image and a short text, competition entrants put into practice these skills in disseminating their projects across the now paramount virtual realm. The judging panel, made up of DTA National Director Tara Dean, UA CEO Vanessa…
…, showcasing the very best of Alliance universities early career research talent and creativity in science communications. A full write-up of the event can be found here. Earlier this year, DTA PhD researchers were invited to submit an image summarising their research, along with an accompanying blurb for the DTA Images of Research competition. Two awards were up for grabs, the Judge’s Choice and the People’s Choice Awards. Since the Awards, the w…
…and developing technologies that would later be implemented by industry. Realising that their work was not sufficiently recognised on the international stage, he began to submit applications for international collaborative research projects, which were run in conjunction with industry partners. It was through 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 colla…
