…opportunities. The Scheme enhanced SLAs’ confidence and coaching, mentoring, communication and leadership skills during their tenure. SLAs advance the University’s strategic priority to transform learning though innovative, flexible and highly accessible practice led education. The Scheme received an Advance HE 2022 Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence. Business Growth and Entrepreneurship Team, University of Hertfordshire The Business Gr…
…hope our new DTA – which is the largest multi-partner, and only nationwide, doctoral training initiative of its kind – will give PhD students the expertise and skills that industry needs and contribute to the productivity of this sector.” Professor Paul Harrison, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Sheffield Hallam University and DTA National Director, said: “Alliance universities have always risen to the challenge of meeting industr…
…lliance’s Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA). In Mental Health Awareness Week, our new Communications Officer Matilda reflects on the importance of peer support for doctoral researchers. A flagship programme for University Alliance, the DTA is a funded doctoral training programme, essentially an applied research programme which reflects the needs of industry and society. It provides students with a network of researchers, academics and industry prof…
…part of the campus repurposed to accommodate the 10-station vaccination site, with lecture theatres serving as waiting and observation areas. Between December 2020 and May 2021, 26,830 vaccinations have been dispensed at the clinic. The highest number delivered in any one day currently totals 2,420. …
…to greater diversity and inclusiveness. The ESRC DTPs announced in 2016 are, indeed, a good example of this. So I am cautiously optimistic that other Research Councils (which will soon sit within UKRI) will do the same. Whilst we will continue engagement with the Research Councils’ DTPs as individual or group of institutions I am delighted that, through collective actions and building on the research strengths and industry-focused ethos of Allianc…
…improving health and wellbeing through our own flagship research programme, the Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA). Applied Biosciences for Health is one of the three strands of this funded PhD training programme and we have already supported 116 doctoral students researching some of society’s most pressing health concerns from Cancer to Alzheimer’s to increasing mobility for the elderly. Across all strands of the DTA, the emphasis is on producing…
…the new normal with interactive virtual representations of physical spaces, so staff, students and industry can develop hybrid learning communities and foster collaboration. In April 2020, a small group of academics and students (eXtended BCU) started developing a solution to allow staff and students to interact and communicate in virtual 3D space, blending learning between physical and digital campus. Initially starting as a response to the COVI…
…impact that DTA research students are having in their fields. Visit Growing Research Impact case studies to find out more. For media queries, contact Gabriel Huntley, Head of Communications and External Relations on 07890 626 099 or email: Gabriel@www.unialliance.ac.uk…
…ones. The technology can be used to reduce anxiety in the veterinary clinic, separation distress in puppies or help reduce urine spraying by cats. As a result of these and other developments, pheromonatherapy is now a multi-million pound global industry. The team has also simplified animal behaviour therapy to increase its use within vet clinics and the wider public. They have pioneered a clinical approach to allow more reliable and specific diagn…
…ady working with the SIKTN on a project to develop a National Directory of UK companies working in bio-sensing. About the Alliance: University Alliance represents 23 major, business-focussed universities at the heart of the sector delivering world-leading research with impact. Alliance universities educate over 26% of all UK students and achieve some of the highest graduate-level employment rates. Alliance universities offer a researchinformed, ac…