Written by guest blogger Prof Anna C. Whittaker I attended this session for several reasons, the most pressing being that I am running a large European Commission Horizon2020 funded grant, and secondly that we promised to try to influence policy with the research emerging from it! So from the odd note and tweeted picture, here … Continue reading “EC Science policy interface session 1: David Mair, 6th June 2017”
Month: June 2017
Day in the life of a Business Engagement Partner
Written by Jack Tasker in Business Engagement The one certainty for our Business Engagement Partners (BEPs) is uncertainty. Every day is different. For the sake of this article we asked them to try and give a flavour of what a BEP gets up to on a daily basis. Before we go any further, if anyone’s … Continue reading “Day in the life of a Business Engagement Partner”
Crossing campus to widen my horizon – Tales from a successful secondment to Research Planning
By guest blogger Katharina Freise Senior Research Facilitator in the College of Arts and Law I have been working at the University of Birmingham since 2006 in various research supporting roles, with the last eight years as a Research Facilitator in the College of Arts and Law. I had been looking out for a way to … Continue reading “Crossing campus to widen my horizon – Tales from a successful secondment to Research Planning”