…ip with ScreenSkills to co-create the ‘Work Ready Skills and Experience’ graduate competencies guidance and resources. In 2023 he created the UK’s first co-production between an independent film production company and a university, to offer 15 students/graduates paid work on professional film in exchange for access to university equipment and facilities. Eddie also led and authored the UK-wide Covid-19 Guidelines for Student Productions, and the C…
…port at their home institution, the PhD students will be joining a much broader community – where they can enjoy the collaborative power, expertise and reach of the Doctoral Training Alliance. They will be encouraged to share knowledge and collaborate via a new website – www.unialliance.ac.uk/dta – which has also been launched today. The Doctoral Training Alliance will be launched at a high profile event at the Royal Society of Biology, London. …
…l student. They highlighted the importance of peer support and using the readymade network that the DTA provides. Julietta on the Energy programme told me why this was one of the most important elements of the programme for her; “What I like about the DTA is being part of a cohort of people from different backgrounds, from different places, that are doing different things, but at the end of the day we are all doing the same thing. So I like having…
…r times and what is unique about our diverse university community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k9G00v-4tg Examples of A Changed World Content: Harriet Riddell, an alumna of UH ran a sketching class as part of our A Changed World Makealong: https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/a-changed-world/the-collection/harriet-riddell2 Julie Kelly, our Academic Registrar, created a presentation: Who Wants to be an Academic Registrar? https://www.herts.ac….
…r a wide variety of roles across society. We have also seen the birth of RCUK’s Doctoral Training Centres/Partnerships (DTCs/DTPs). The early rounds of these DTCs/DTPs by and large excluded universities whose missions were broader than research intensity yet had excellent records for producing superb PGRs with excellent impact and pockets of research excellence. With the second round of DTPs/DTCs, thankfully there appears to be a commitment to gre…
…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 highly skilled and highly employable researchers. As the University Alliance we are very proud of our members’ contribution to the applied research agend…
…hin weeks of the start of the awareness of an on-coming pandemic the team had adapted their LAMP approach for detecting urinary tract infections (UTIs) to the Covid-19 virus. By the spring of 2020 they had made successful bids to the Welsh Government for resources to determine the sensitivity and specificity of the test, together with a partnership with a local engineering design company to produce a manufacturable point-of-care LAMP device from a…
…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…
…ach to allow more reliable and specific diagnosis of problems. This has been incorporated into a Masters programme and has been published in a new book Stress and Pheromonatherapy in Small Animal Clinical Behaviour. The team’s work is acknowledged in the recommendations for animal care by many animal charities including the RSPCA. The use of pheromones in mainstream veterinary practice is included in most key textbooks as a result of the research…
…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…