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A new report from the Technician Commitment and partners highlights the impact of COVID-19 on the technical community in higher education and research.

A collaborative team consisting of the Technician Commitment, Science Council, Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Biology, Royal Society of Chemistry, Wellcome and the Research England funded Midlands Innovation TALENT programme undertook a national survey in order to understand the impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) on the technical workforce in higher education and research. Over 1300 responses were collected from technicians across 99 universities and research institutes from all four nations of the UK.

The resulting report, COVID19: The Impact on Technicians in UK Higher Education & Research offers unprecedented insight into the impact of the pandemic on working practices for technicians and shines a light on technical contributions at an extraordinary time.

Thanks to those of you who attended last week’s meeting to discuss Recruitment and Visibility issues in more detail.

The next meeting, on Tuesday 17 November, will concentrate on PROMOTION AND PROGRESSION and RECOGNITION. If you are able to attend please email Technicians@warwick.ac.uk and we will send a calendar invite.

Following a meeting with a group of Technicians across the science faculty on Friday, a number of subjects were raised and ideas put forward which we now want to discuss with a wider range of Technicians. We have split the subjects across two meetings so that we can spend more time on each topic.

The first meeting will be on Friday 30 October at 13:30 and the topics to be discussed are RECRUITMENT and VISIBILITY. If you are able to attend please email Technicians@warwick.ac.uk and we will send a calendar invite.