- Collaboration - the key to successful innovation
The Collaborate to Innovate (C2I) Awards were launched by The Engineer, partnering with EPSRC and Engineering UK, to celebrate the role collaboration plays in developing new ground-breaking engineering solutions. The leads for three of the winning projects highlight their experiences here.
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- Issued: 18 November 2016
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- Balancing Capability - What does it mean in practice and is a 'Reduce' label fatal to the field?
We hear from Professor Jon Binner, Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering at the University of Birmingham, on how this area of research responded to the Shaping Capability approach by EPSRC in 2011.
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- Issued: 10 November 2016
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- What does the future hold for robotics and AI?
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, Director of the EPSRC-supported Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and a judge on Robot Wars, discusses the gap between the public's perception of robotics and AI and the reality, while looking at the challenges and opportunities facing the sector in the future.
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- Issued: 30 October 2016
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- Balancing Capability - Grow, Maintain, Reduce
The academic year is in full swing and we are busy working towards our Delivery Plan's three strategies: Balancing Capability, Building Leadership and Accelerating Impact. Professor Tom Rodden provides an insight into what Balancing Capability is, and what it means for the research community.
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- Issued: 04 October 2016
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- Air Quality and Climate Change
Climate Week (16-23 September) is a Scottish Government-led national campaign to raise awareness and inspire action on climate change. Vicky Pope talks about two key environmental issues and the task of identifying research themes to tackle them.
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- Issued: 21 September 2016
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- The engineering behind Olympic stadiums
We take it for granted that the sporting action at the Olympics will be framed by a majestic stadium. But why do stadiums take the forms that they do? And why do these forms often differ quite markedly from each other?
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- Issued: 19 August 2016
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- What is an EPSRC YINI?
Since 2004, EPSRC has provided year-long placement opportunities for a number of Year in Industry (YINI) students.
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- Issued: 11 August 2016
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- The answer to the next public health epidemic is in your hands
How can your phone predict a national health epidemic and advise of areas which may be of danger, to avoid? Vasileios Lampos at the University College London explains how user generated content may lead to breaking discoveries in public health surveillance, which could support major events like the Olympic Games.
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- Issued: 03 August 2016
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- The Transmed Student Conference 2016
Holly Fleming and Catherine Lynch are students in the EPSRC and MRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Optical Medical Imaging (OPTIMA CDT). They tell us about the challenges involved in organising the inaugural Transmed Student Conference in May 2016.
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- Issued: 27 July 2016
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- Research Sets Fair Winds
Dr Ruth L Mallors-Ray OBE, Chief Operating Officer of the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) talks about the Farnborough International Airshow and the future of aerospace research.
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- Issued: 14 July 2016
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