Chair's Blog APRIL 2019: Increasing R&D budget with significant economic and social impact
10 Apr 2019
Chris Skidmore the HE Minister calls himself the minister of 2.4% - ie minister for raising R&D from 1.7% of GDP to 2.4% or from around £35BN to about £50BN. The biggest component of this is business R&D (at around £25BN). That implies a growth in business R&D of £10BN. That’s a huge task – unless somehow we can contrive to reduce our GDP through a slow motion cross-border crisis! But the fact that the HE Minister sees himself as responsible for this must put the UK Knowledge exchange community firmly in his sights as the people who can help make this possible. The announcement last week of an increase in HE-BCI collaboration between universities and business of about 6% to £4.5BN despite GDP growth slowing to almost nothing must have put a spring in his step. But there’s clearly much more to do.
New member welcome: March 2019
26 Mar 2019
The PraxisAuril community continues to grow! We are delighted to welcome four new members this month, read on to find out more about them and how they are supporting knowledge exchange.
Q1 2019 Mentor Programme UPDATE
19 Mar 2019
The PraxisAuril Mentor Programme is a 10-week plan connecting Knowledge Exchange Mentors and Mentees. As our first 2019 programme comes to a close this week, it is a fantastic opportunity to look at feedback from this hugely successful initiative and also thank our very generous Mentors for their time and support.
New RTTPs and Candidate RTTPs in Quarter 1 2019
18 Mar 2019
We would like to congratulate x6 new RTTPs and x3 new Candidate RTTPs for being accepted into their respective ATTP groups. It is a fantastic achievement and demonstrates that these individuals are either highly qualified Knowledge Exchange practitioners, or on a professional development pathway to become one.
RTTP: The Diversity of Professional Recognition
18 Mar 2019
In November 2018 I sent out a call to our community with a request to interview several KE professionals who are RTTP accredited. As usual in Marketing, I often work against tight deadlines to effectively plan communications in advance; this series of interviews was no different. Despite the time constraints, I was very fortunate to get 6 people to reply to my email call for interviewees. Thanks to their time and support I was able to condense and write an overview summarising their answers and opinions.
RTTP: Up to date skills and expert knowledge - An interview with Anji Miller
11 Mar 2019
Georgina Wark, Professional Development Programme Manager at PraxisAuril, caught up with Anji Miller from LifeArc about how RTTP gave her the confidence, skills and experience to perform in her role globally.