University technical staff make a vital contribution to the success of their institution on many fronts, not least the teaching and learning experience.
To recognise this, the Higher Education Academy offer the Technician of the Year Awards; a series of prestigious awards that celebrate the technician’s contribution to teaching and learning activities and to the wider HE student experience. Awards will be presented at the HEA STEM Annual Conference 30 Apr 2014 – 1 May 2014 at the University of Edinburgh. The winners will receive £250 each of Amazon vouchers in recognition of their contribution to STEM education. Nominations are welcome from technicians, academic staff, students and senior management.
Closing date; 1 February 2014.
The ACED Annual Conference is to take place at the University of Birmingham on 24 and 25 October 2013.
Guest of Honour: Professor Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford and Chair, UK Open Access Implementation Group
Delegates at this timely seminar will assess the challenges and opportunities presented by the introduction of Open Access policies for publicly-funded research. It comes as academia and businesses prepare for publicly-funded research to be made available on an Open Access basis by 2014, following Government and the Research Councils’ accepting recommendations in Dame Janet Finch’s report Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications.
The conference will bring together key policymakers with academics and university leaders, the publishing industry, science-based businesses, research councils, other research-funding organisations and further interested parties. Key topics for discussion will include the potential for e-books and other formats to more widely disseminate research, funding implications of the ‘Gold’ Open Access model, the role of that the ‘Green’ Open Access model could play in the UK and how the UK policy compares with the Open Access positions of other nations.
The future for UK manufacturing – challenges ahead for policy following the Foresight Project
with
Professor Sir Mark Walport, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government and Head, Government Office for Science(subject to diary)
Janice Munday, Director, Advanced Manufacturing and Services, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Dirk Pilat, Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
and
Dick Elsy, High Value Manufacturing Catapult;Professor Steve Evans, University of Cambridge;Professor Richard Hague, University of Nottingham;Professor Richard Harris, University of Durham; Professor Alan Hughes, University of Cambridge; Mike Hutchinson, Tharsus Group;Mike Rigby, Barclays andBill Twigg, Semta
Chaired by:
Chris White MP, Co-Chair, Associate Parliamentary Manufacturing Group
Morning, Thursday, 28th November 2013
Central London
The 11th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2013)
The International Conference on Manufacturing Research is a major event for academics and industrialists engaged in manufacturing research. Held annually in the UK since the late 1970s, the conference is renowned as a friendly and inclusive environment that brings together a broad community of researchers who share a common goal; developing and managing the technologies and operations that are key to sustaining the success of manufacturing businesses.
ICMR2013 will take place on the 19-20 September 2013 at Cranfield University.
The ICMR2013 is running back to back with the 2nd Annual EPSRC Manufacturing the Future conference which runs from 17-18 September 2013. Both conferences are integrated events within the ‘Manufacturing Week’ 16-20 September 2013 at Cranfield. The ICMR 2013 will have a strong emphasis on industrial relevance and senior executives from leading manufacturers will be attending.
We now have a strong programme for our 10th annual meeting around the theme ‘The Future of Manufacturing’.
Speakers will include the manufacturing heads from BIS, EPSRC and TSB, industrialists from key industries of the future including Medical Technology, Synthetic Biology and Food as well as a Manufacturing Futures Workshop facilitated by the Government Office of Science Manufacturing Foresight team, and a pre-dinner address by David Willetts.
Follow the link Forum Agenda to see the programme.
Please email Ella Davey (erd30@cam.ac.uk) to let her know if you can attend both the Forum and Dinner.
As this is our 10th Anniversary year we are keen to make it a rather special occasion, so do please join in if you can. Do please also let us know if there are any senior industrialists you would like us to invite for the dinner, and any new Professors we should be encouraging to come along to both the Forum and Dinner.
University technical staff make a vital contribution to the success of their institution on many fronts, not least the teaching and learning experience.