…ns of Health Cyber security leads Finance leads HR leads Heads of Admissions Executive/Personal Assistants to VCs IT leads Estates leads Health and Safety Student Union presidents Careers and Employability Immigration Compliance DTA Networks The DTA run a series of networks bringing together DTA researchers. DTA Management Group DTA Training Group DTA/DTA3 Researchers DTA3 Programme leads DTA3 Student representatives DTA3 Finance representatives D…
…Our Networks As UA, we run a number of Academic Networks and Professional Networks: Academic Networks University Alliance runs formal academic networks in three key areas: Research and Innovation (R&I), Teaching and Learning (T&L) and Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise (KEE). Teaching and Learning The T&L Network enables expert practitioners to come together to share best practice and innovate in the teaching and learning space. Recent external sp…
…of developing the technology needed to achieve the government’s ambitious net zero targets. With the government and major global companies such as bp investing in Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool, this centre will help support the industries of the future that are central to my plan for jobs, a plan that is already creating good-quality, well-paid jobs for local workers. “The centre will be a fantastic example of what can be done when our bril…
…r heating systems will be key to delivering Oxford Brookes’ ambition to be net-zero by 2040. Due to the high building density of their main campus, space for deploying traditional heat pumps is limited. However, since a new £2.3m project reached practical completion in 2022, Brookes are the first university with an operational geo-thermal system. Working with Black Mountain Developments, the system utilises 14 vertically splayed boreholes (>200 me…
…itt, Chief People Officer, Coventry University Magi is a member of UA’s HR network. The HR network was one of the first new UA network established in the days building up to the first national lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic. The network and all its members have proved invaluable during the last year coming together regularly to share experiences and solutions to common issues and challenges. Magi has inspired by how she has gone out of her w…
…uthority councils. By bringing together their existing individual regional networks, EMERGENCE plan to create an exceptional and strong national network. The EMERGENCE consortium’s testbeds have already been enabling some of the key foundational research underpinning assistive robotics, including Internet of Things and intelligent sensing, as part of user-centred, open innovation research projects. Together they will bring the interdisciplinary sk…
…ey towards online events to tackle isolation within the student community” Barbara Pereira Union Affairs Officer, Leeds Beckett Student Union Supporting their Communities, and the Nation/s, throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Alliance universities have been at the forefront of the Covid response. Thousands of nursing students from all 12 Alliance universities volunteered to take up positions with in the NHS to support the nationwide effort to stem t…
University Alliance institutions are supporting their local communities through encouraging volunteering, bolstering social enterprises and designing projects to help local people. Our universities’ deep roots in their communities, stemming from partnerships with local organisations, businesses and charities, mean that we are established as a significant source of support within the region. Through volunteering initiatives, social enterprise supp…
University Alliance institutions are at the forefront of training the UK’s future health and social care workforce, training 25% of all nursing and midwifery students and 18% of all social work students. This is due in large part to the superb learning and training provision afforded by our universities’ high tech facilities. Allowing students to train in an immersive environment, using equipment and techniques that they would encounter once they…
…ssional who never fails to add tremendous value and contribution to the HR network. During her time with the network Chizoma earned promotion to her current role, richly deserved. Chizoma is generous with her advice and wisdom, never a dull a meeting when Chizoma is in attendance. Professor Bugewa Apampa, Professor of Access and Participation, Birmingham City University Professor Apampa has an insatiable appetite for ensuring that education serves…
