Let me begin by congratulating you all…– Emily Farran, our Academic Lead, Research Culture and Integrity, and the organising team,– Marta Torpor and her PGR team,– Christine Daoutis and the Open Research team,– the Open Research Working Group,– and all today’s presenters. What a diverse group and fascinating set of topics and perspectives you represent. […]
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In this blog, I discuss the role of research and innovation in a research-intensive university – The University of Surrey – in this new era post the arrival of COVID-19, and set out ten tenets – guiding beliefs and principles, which may be used to inform our forthcoming actions. Introduction I was taught in physics […]
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In this blog, I reflect on what it means to be a doctoral student, how important doctoral students are in the research and innovation ecosystem, and what we are doing to support them during the COVID-19 lockdown and beyond. Importance to the Research and Innovation Base We tend to forget that the concept of the […]
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So, given all the emails, web pages, articles in The Conversation, in the THE, from UUK, CBI, UKRI, etc. etc., what can I provide that might add a few drops of value to this massive bolus of expert commentary. Well, I have a couple of observations that you can judge as to their utility in […]
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Today’s blog is about why you should feed back by answering our new surveys coming soon. Patience – I need to build the case! Giving back Why did I take on this tough job as VPRI? I could have simply continued doing lots of research, writing papers, supervising students, winning funding, travelling the world giving talks, […]
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13 November 2019 Jointly hosted by the Urban Living and Sustainability Research Themes Recently, I attended the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee meeting at Westminster – it was entitled “Climate Change – is there a Plan B?” It was explained that during the warm periods over the last million or so years CO2 levels fell in […]
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