Congratulations to Dr Beatriz Lagunas who has been Highly Commended in the Excellence in Gender Equality awards. The award recognises a member of staff that is making a positive difference within the gender equality agenda around the University.
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Professor Rosemary Collier has been Highly Commended by the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists in the first Caroline Drummond Award, Celebrating and Communicating Farming Excellence. Rosemary will be presented with a trophy later in the year.
Find out about the award.

Chris de Wolf, Senior Technician, received highly commended status in the Warwick Technician Commitment Award for Outstanding Achievement. This celebrates the fantastic work our technical staff do across research, teaching and within our infrastructure, without which Warwick would not operate.
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Congratulations to Dr Steven Servin, our Cytometry Specialist, who has become a Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Engagement. Find out moreLink opens in a new window.

Dr Louise Dyson, The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, School of Life Sciences and Mathematics Institute, was interviewed by the European Medical Journal about systematic non-adherence to mass drug administration and modelling to support the eradication of neglected tropical diseases
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Our Research Facility Manager, Dr Sarah Bennett, gives her thoughts on research culture from a technician's perspective.

Read the blog (9 November 2022)

Over the next few weeks the University of Waewick is showcasing the vital roles our technical staff play in the world-class research and teaching at Warwick.

• The latest video features Georgia Lavender, Senior Teaching Lab Technician, from the SLS Teaching Lab.
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• Professor Miriam Gifford, Head of the School, takes us through working with technicians in research to the contribution they make across the School.
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Hear from Jeanette Selby, Senior Genomics Technician, on her success in a pioneering technical leadership programme:

"At the end of 2021 my application to the Herschel Programme for Women in Technical Leadership, run by MI TALENT, was successful. The programme ran during the first 6 months of 2022 offering the chance for me to attended on-line courses covering a wide range of topics relevant to women in the technical workplace: ‘Culture and Context’, Confidence and Empowerment’, You as a Leader’ and ‘Influencing and Negotiating’. All of these courses were packed with useful references, advice and tools to help me grow in confidence and realise my potential in my current role as well as look forward to the challenges future roles may bring.

The second arm of the programme, running along side the on-line course content, were our Actions Learning Sets (ALS). These were groups of 4 or 5 delegates, put together to use the process of action learning to talk though and solve workplace issues of the individuals in the group. This initially seemed a daunting prospect; we had never met each other and COVID meant our face-to-face introductory meeting did not happen. However, our monthly on-line sessions became a highlight of the programme. My group found much common ground and we helped each other work through immediate problems and looked at longer term goals. We will all be staying on touch and it is good to have expanded my network of technical contacts across 3 other institutions!

The programme culminated with an in-person celebration event in London and it was so good to meet the people I had been working with over the 6 month course. It was a really worthwhile programme that has taught me a lot about myself and how to help make positive changes to my workplace and practices.

Find out more about the programme

Emeritus Professor Bill Finch-Savage has recently been awarded Lifetime Membership to the International Society for Seed Science (ISSS) for his exceptional contribution to Seed Science and to the Society. As President Elect and then President he oversaw International Symposia in Poland, Brazil and China in addition to several international workshops.

Dr Sarah Bennett talks to TALENT about her career path to becoming the WISB Research Technology Facility Manager. TALENT is a project which leads and influences change to advance status and opportunity for technical skills, roles and careers in UK higher education and research. Watch Sarah's story