C-DICE and UKCRIC ‘All Hands’ event

Summary of meeting

Tues 13th April 13:00 to 16:00

The aim of this ‘All Hands’ event was to introduce academics, post-docs and research managers in the UKCRIC partnership to the C-DICE programme.

We invited academics and postdocs from UKCRIC universities to attend in order to introduce them to C-DICE and gain their thoughts and ideas about how the postdoctoral programme should run in future.

The aims of the session were to:

Provide details about the benefits of working with C-DICE
Help C-DICE to develop an operational framework for future activities
Find out about synergies between UKCRIC and the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA)

The presentations included:

• An welcome to the session from Professor Andy Dainty, Loughborough University
• An overview of UKCRIC from Professor Willilam Powrie, University of Southampton
• An introduction to the Energy Research Accelerator from Professor Martin Freer, Director of ERA, University of Birmingham
• An introduction to C-DICE from Dr Kathryn North, C-DICE Director and Professor Sergio Cavalaro, Loughborough University

Delegates also broke out into World Cafe style workshops on Training, Development and Sandpits, where their discussions focused on areas including:

• Research priority areas
• Training opportunities
• Interface with infrastructure, Cities and Energy
• Barriers to participation
• Impact and Collaboration
• Engagement with postdocs and academics
• Working with industry and other external stakeholders

THE C-DICE UKCRIC ‘ALL HANDS’ MEETING

The video of the UKCRIC, Energy Research Accelerator, and C-DICE presentations from this event are available to be viewed below.

Event Video

Event Presentation Slides