PROGRAMME
08:30
Registration and Coffee in the Networking Surgery
09:25
09:35
Keynote Address
David Way (confirmed)
Director of Knowledge Exchange and Special Projects, Technology Strategy Board
“Cooperate to innovate: what knowledge transfer networks and partnerships can achieve”
Research Networks are not only economic drivers for future prosperity, but can impact on our societies, communities and our daily lives. Collaboration and knowledge transfer are key to tackling some of the major challenges, such as food security and climate change, and it requires cross-disciplinary engagement to expand on theories, ideas and inventions.
David Way (confirmed)
Director of Knowledge Exchange and Special Projects, Technology Strategy Board
“Cooperate to innovate: what knowledge transfer networks and partnerships can achieve”
Research Networks are not only economic drivers for future prosperity, but can impact on our societies, communities and our daily lives. Collaboration and knowledge transfer are key to tackling some of the major challenges, such as food security and climate change, and it requires cross-disciplinary engagement to expand on theories, ideas and inventions.
09:55
David Sweeney (confirmed)
Director of Research, Innovation and Skills, Higher Education Funding Council for England
“Raising the bar – how the Research Excellence Framework can help to improve research quality and outcomes”
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. The assessments aim to provide accountability for public investment in research, provide benchmarking information and produce evidence of the benefits that research investments bring.
Director of Research, Innovation and Skills, Higher Education Funding Council for England
“Raising the bar – how the Research Excellence Framework can help to improve research quality and outcomes”
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. The assessments aim to provide accountability for public investment in research, provide benchmarking information and produce evidence of the benefits that research investments bring.
10:15
Dr Matthew Hallsworth (confirmed)
Head of External Relations, NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI)
“Pooling resources to help take research to the marketplace”
Collaborative partnerships, whether they are rooted in finance, skills or knowledge-based, are fundamental in helping to commercialise research. There are challenges for businesses at the start-up end of development and it is important to understand and identify market opportunities and conditions to develop further and expand on the research base.
Head of External Relations, NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI)
“Pooling resources to help take research to the marketplace”
Collaborative partnerships, whether they are rooted in finance, skills or knowledge-based, are fundamental in helping to commercialise research. There are challenges for businesses at the start-up end of development and it is important to understand and identify market opportunities and conditions to develop further and expand on the research base.
10:30
Speaker to be confirmed
10:45 - 10:55
Question and Answer Session
11:00
Coffee in the Networking Surgery
11:45
Masterclass Session
12:30
Lunch in the Networking Surgery
13:30
Chair's Afternoon Address
13:45
Case Study
Professor Dan Tovey (confirmed)
Professor of Particle Physics, University of Sheffield
“Zeptoscale science with global collaboration: the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider”
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva are now answering fundamental questions about how the universe functions at scales far smaller than the nucleus of an atom. The technical challenges facing scientists and engineers at the birth of this project were immense but were overcome by developing trans-national collaborations of unprecedented global scale. The history, structure and sociology of these collaborations will be discussed with a view to identifying lessons for future networks of similar size.
Professor Dan Tovey (confirmed)
Professor of Particle Physics, University of Sheffield
“Zeptoscale science with global collaboration: the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider”
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva are now answering fundamental questions about how the universe functions at scales far smaller than the nucleus of an atom. The technical challenges facing scientists and engineers at the birth of this project were immense but were overcome by developing trans-national collaborations of unprecedented global scale. The history, structure and sociology of these collaborations will be discussed with a view to identifying lessons for future networks of similar size.
14:05
Afternoon Keynote Address
Professor Paul Boyle (confirmed)
President, Science Europe; Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council
“International collaboration: how to maximise the impact of the European Research Area and foster innovation”
The aim of the European Research Area is to give researchers, institutions and businesses access to a Europe-wide open space for knowledge and technologies and encourage cross-border cooperation. The current economic climate further underlines the problems of research funding with no single country having the sufficient resources to be competitive on a global scale. Transnational cooperation can help improve the use of national and regional resources so that research outcomes are more efficient and more effective. How can research organisations and institutions directly engage with the other projects and programmes, with the right businesses and commercial partners, and at the right level?
Professor Paul Boyle (confirmed)
President, Science Europe; Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council
“International collaboration: how to maximise the impact of the European Research Area and foster innovation”
The aim of the European Research Area is to give researchers, institutions and businesses access to a Europe-wide open space for knowledge and technologies and encourage cross-border cooperation. The current economic climate further underlines the problems of research funding with no single country having the sufficient resources to be competitive on a global scale. Transnational cooperation can help improve the use of national and regional resources so that research outcomes are more efficient and more effective. How can research organisations and institutions directly engage with the other projects and programmes, with the right businesses and commercial partners, and at the right level?
14:25
Case Study
Martin Yuille (confirmed)
Co-Director, Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Manchester University
“Next Generation Biobanking: The rise of the networks”
New medicines and health improvements require research biobanking networks of people, things and processes. First steps in this direction will be described.
Martin Yuille (confirmed)
Co-Director, Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Manchester University
“Next Generation Biobanking: The rise of the networks”
New medicines and health improvements require research biobanking networks of people, things and processes. First steps in this direction will be described.
14:45
Panel Debate
“Research to innovation”
The UK punches above its weight. It produces 8% of the world's scientific papers and has a citation share of 12%, second only to the US. However, we fall short of reaching the commercial potential of our research projects. How do we get better at developing innovative products, processes and services? Will open access to research papers and scientific data soon become the norm?
“Research to innovation”
The UK punches above its weight. It produces 8% of the world's scientific papers and has a citation share of 12%, second only to the US. However, we fall short of reaching the commercial potential of our research projects. How do we get better at developing innovative products, processes and services? Will open access to research papers and scientific data soon become the norm?
Paul Clark (confirmed)
Director of Policy, Universities UK
Director of Policy, Universities UK
Dr Jonathan Sheffield OBE (confirmed)
Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health Research, Clinical Research Network
Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health Research, Clinical Research Network
Martin Yuille (confirmed)
Co-Director, Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Manchester University
Co-Director, Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Manchester University
Professor Dan Tovey (confirmed)
Professor of Particle Physics, University of Sheffield
Professor of Particle Physics, University of Sheffield
15:40
Chair's Closing Remarks
15:45
Conference Close
