Innovation Award
…rt (incl interviews with GRASSroots group and Prof Tuffrey-Wijne), who contacted us following our webinar on vaccination: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55732177…
…rt (incl interviews with GRASSroots group and Prof Tuffrey-Wijne), who contacted us following our webinar on vaccination: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55732177…
…he continent. Find out more about Buffalo Adventures: buffaloadventures.co.uk Compact Gyms Ltd Andrew Marshall – Nottingham Trent University Compact Gyms provides functional, high-quality home gym equipment that folds down after use. Andrew’s business idea is aimed at consumers looking for convenient solutions to exercising in limited spaces at home. Dinky Do Dah! Ashema Edwards – Kingston University Dinky Do Dah! is a pop-up nail bar exclusively…
…the students’ business proposals, and more details on the investors can be found on our blog. Data on graduate start-ups taken from HE Business and Community Interaction Survey 2015/16 by HESA: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/hebci-2015-16 For press enquiries please contact Joshua Hastings, Communications Officer: joshua@www.unialliance.ac.uk / 020 7839 2757…
…ll do little to assuage worries. While the reforms promised in the UK Research and Innovation Roadmap will help address these for future generations, in the meantime, by adopting these recommendations providers of doctoral training can go some way to relieving the complex pressures faced by the current generation of PhD researchers….
…Notes to editors: For more information on the DTA programme, please visit www.unialliance.ac.uk/dta/ The report will be published on the UA website alongside a series of case studies illustrating the 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@ww…
…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…
…hich explores the relevance of social group memberships – family, friends, community, sports groups, hobby groups – for our wellbeing. This work comes from the Social Cure perspective within social psychology, which argues that it is the extent to which we identify with (or feel a subjective sense of belonging to) our social groups that is consequential for our wellbeing. In order to study the relationship between group identification and happines…
…niversity of Salford and the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). She completed her research doctorate at UWS in 2021, where she also worked as a peer-assisted learning leader and research assistant. Rabia identified her career interests in researcher development during her research doctorate and strived to gain experience by engaging her fellow researchers and creating a peer support community of PGRs. She is passionate about supporting doct…
…qual society is a classic wicked problem; however you try to solve it, you come across competing ideas of fairness and incentives that drive in different directions. How do you judge between the bright, hard-working child who achieved excellent A-level results with the support of the best schooling money can buy and the bright, hard-working child who might have done just as well—or even better—if they had had the same opportunity, but actually did…
…tanding of how drones are use and their future potential. Find out more at www.iudro.com University of Greenwich CNPPS: Kamal Farid Kamal has come up with an idea that has the potential to turn the UK’s pavement sector into a carbon-negative industry. He has launched CNPPS, a completely new technology for paving hard surfaces through the use of secondary used aggregates. The manufacturing technology coverts secondary used and waste produced into t…