21st March, 2022

Register here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wasc/events/fundingrtprofs2022/registration

The Warwick Analytical Science Centre (WASC) is hosting its first one-day meeting for research technical professionals (RTProf), on the theme of ‘Opportunities and Landscape of Funding for Research Technical Professionals’. This will help our RTProf community understand more about the grant process and writing, funds that are available, university finances and national funding strategy. Delegates will come away with the tools and knowledge needed to apply for their own funding and to understand how their facilities can be included onto grants.

Tailored specifically for technical rather than academic staff, the day will feature talks, panel discussions and professional skills sessions from EPSRC/UKRI and TALENT.

Registration for the event is FREE and will be held in-person at Warwick, plus an online attendance option for those wishing to attend virtually.

Schedule (21st March 2022, University of Warwick):

9:00-9:45 Registration and coffee

9:45-10:00 Welcome and introduction to the day from WASC (Prof. Steven Brown, WASC Director)

10:00-10.30 Funding Landscape and Recent Policy from UKRI - Presentation

10.30-12.00 Technician Commitment from UKRI Talent Team (Dr Nik Ogryzko) – Presentation

TALENT Policy Commission (Kelly Vere MBE) – Presentation

Discussion Panel

12.00 – 12.45 Lunch Break

12.45 - 13.15 Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) Presentation – Andrew Dicken (Deputy Head of Funding Assurance, UKRI)

13.15 - 14:00 EPSRC Funding and Focus on RTPs Presentation and Discussion Panel (Dr Tony Chapman, Senior Portfolio Manager, EPSRC and others)

Parallel Sessions (tours in-person only)

14.15-15.45 Skills session on "Building Business Cases" (Sandy Sparks, MI-TALENT)

14.15-15.45 Optional tours of facilities at Warwick

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For those attending online, individual Zoom links will be sent to those delegates 2-3 days prior to the event. If you require overnight accommodation, please find visit the page here, or contact the WASC team for more information.

We look forward to seeing you at the event!

We are pleased to report the first publication resulting from our seedcorn access scheme. Ioannis Papagiannis, a student at Coventry University, was recently awarded two days access to our X-Ray Diffraction facility:

“The WASC seedcorn funding allowed us to access the X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) equipment, which was not available at our institution. This allowed us to determine the crystallographic structure of iron oxide nanoparticles for its characterisation, which was then presented at and accepted for publication in the proceedings of the ICNNN 2021:

Papagiannis, M.S. Innocente, & E.I. Gkanas (2021). Synthesis and Characterisation of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Tunable Sizes by Hydrothermal Method. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Nanostructures, Nanomaterials and Nanoengineering 2021 (ICNNN 2021), Fukuoka, Japan (hybrid), 2021"

Congratulations to Ioannis on his publication!

At the recent HETS event, WASC management committee member- Dr Ian Hancox was awarded a special award for his significant contribution to the technical community. This is a wonderful achievement and thoroughly deserved. Congratulations Ian. For full story please visit: Papin Medal Awarded to Warwick Technician (mitalent.ac.uk).