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  1. Commuting students – enhancing a different student experience

    …s. Ensure that your default is not only on-campus. Develop small, informal spaces where commuters (and others) can chill out between timetabled sessions, whether to chat, rest or work. Provide lockers so that students don’t have to carry heavy bags all day. Timetable with travel in mind, minimise long gaps and late changes. Schedule events and activities in weekday daytime, as well as evening and weekend. Embrace technology! Offer online learning…

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  2. The DTA Rep Committee: Amplifying the voice of PhD researchers

    …ing more tailored training options. [April Murray Cantwell] Coming up! The Committee is currently working towards an end-of-academic-year event for all DTA researchers. More information will be forthcoming in the New Year, so watch this space. Katheryn Margaret is also developing a Mini-Methodology Festival to encourage peer-to-peer learning and to support researchers’ understanding of the diverse methodologies that inform qualitative research. Th…

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  3. The University of Hertfordshire’s holistic approach to research-led innovation and entrepreneurship

    …start-ups and SMEs looking to scale up (which provide bespoke, wrap-around services including technical, commercial, and R&D expertise) have proved to be particularly successful. In just two years we have run several, including a Sustainability Accelerator and a Healthcare Accelerator, supporting businesses such as Mama Bamboo, a pioneer producer of compostable nappies and baby wipes,  Go Design Services, an alumna-led creative design business, an…

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  4. Stronger Together: Building A University Alliance For The Future

    coming into higher education straight from my previous life as Director of Commercial & Communications at UK Sport. Our job was to enable 1100 outstanding Olympic and Paralympic National Lottery-funded athletes to realise their full potential. The talent, of course, was always there even when we languished at 36th on the medal table at Atlanta in 1996. It was only through building a high-performance system that we could find and nurture that talen…

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  5. The DTA is Intersectoral- Part 2

    …as in just 90 minutes, I teamed-up with seven other participants who, like me, had been very vocal on the need to tackle the climate challenge. We became the ‘Glacier Melt Mitigation Services’ (GMMS), tackling the huge threat posed by melting sea ice, which in 20 years is expected to cause sea levels to rise by over half a meter. This will significantly impact the Earth’s weather systems, leading to frequent destructive storms resulting in huge ca…

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  6. Continuing the conversation between Emma Hardy MP and Professor Jane Harrington, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich 

    …, universities should commit to safeguarding the essential student support services for current and future students, and where possible extending them further, the way you have done. JH: Yes, absolutely. We have also been doing lots for our existing students. Greenwich University spent the first few weeks of lockdown sourcing and shipping hundreds of laptops and internet connection ‘dongles’ to students across the country to overcome a ‘digital di…

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  7. 2020 reviewed by our networks

    …ics for tenants, and UWE, Bristol have been running virtual activities and services to combat loneliness and isolation. The work of Alliance universities in their communities will be increasingly important as we look to rebuild from this crisis, as highlighted by the policy team at Coventry University “The sector should keep highlighting the role they can play in enabling the economy to recover from the economic shocks caused by the pandemic. The…

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  8. How Coventry University Group are driving ‘challenge-led innovation’

    …to open innovation. By defining projects into modular ‘challenges’ it is becoming increasingly common for academics, researchers and private organisations to seek solutions through a network of problem solvers from diverse backgrounds and experiences. As a global organisation and anchor institution, we have a responsibility to support economic development, local growth and regeneration in the towns, cities, regions and countries in which we and ou…

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  9. With the right support, universities can help power an economic, social and cultural recovery

    …region. Sitting at the nexus between higher education, business and public services, it is often Alliance universities that deliver the commercialisation of findings, translational research, innovation support and skills development necessary to develop ideas into application; delivering real-world innovations in care, services, products and delivery. This role will be particularly important as we look beyond the immediate response to the pandemic…

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