…roved invaluable to his weightlifting progress. Since graduating with first-class honours in 2019, he has been appointed to a lead nurse role in Harrow, north-west London. Cyrille was selected among 29 athletes who competed in the IOC Refugee Team at the Tokyo Olympics and was one of the flag bearers at the games this summer. In the past, Cyrille has said how he “understood and hoped to support” fellow refugees. Read more about Cyrille’s story her…
…r Higher Education to realign itself with societal challenges and a congested regulatory environment. The factors include: Policies and policy institutes Economic Socio-economical Technological Legal Pedagogical drive Equality and diversity Research Find the full report here. …
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…o enable smaller and less popular subjects to be delivered across schools using technology to bring sixth-form colleges together. Although many university-sponsored MATs are located in the region where the university is rooted, Coventry University sponsors MATs across the country, including in Nuneaton, Leicester and Nottingham, thus enacting a civic role through an educational ethos that spans multiple localities. University-sponsored MATs are a…
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…nd Criminal Justice at the University of South Wales), who was joined by Co-Chairs of the DTA Researcher Representative Committee – Ana Tendero-Cañadas (Bioscience, Brighton), April Murray Cantwell (Social Policy, Sheffield Hallam) and Katheryn Margaret Pascoe (Social Policy, Ulster). In their talk, the DTA leaders discussed the challenges for women in research careers, why the DTA reps put themselves forwards for leadership roles, the development…
…n, had to say: https://www.unialliance.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/VID-20200810-WA0000.mp4 Did you know? Alliance universities rated highly for employability in this year’s Graduate Outcomes Survey, with 83% of UA graduates reporting that they are in some form of work 15 months after their course completion. In fact, the newest member of the Alliance, Anglia Ruskin University, rated as one of the top five universities in the country for gra…
…ollars every year by 2100. Our team’s proposal was to extend pre-existing glacial re-freezing ideas and use nuclear-powered ice breaker technology to pump nearby freezing water onto ice sheets. Using nuclear energy, rather than diesel or wind, would represent a huge reduction in costs but, even so, many on the bootcamp thought our project was crazily ambitious. I learnt to deal with this discouragement and to remain confident and motivated despite…
…, Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral. In the series The DTA is Intersectoral, we showcase how our funded PhDs cut across different sectors, building bridges between academia and industry, and provides students with the skills and experience required by industry through work placements and research partnerships. In part one of the series hear from two of our researchers on their experience working with industry and the benefits this has brought to…
…. At the programme’s heart is a commitment to international co-operation, using research to cut across boarders and work together to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. In the first part of our DTA is International series, hear from some of the DTA’s current students 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) COFU…
