As a group, we run a monthly academic seminar series. Traditionally, these seminars were mostly used as a space for our team members and PhD students to present and get feedback on their ongoing work. Over time though, as our team has grown, we have broadened the reach of our academic meetings to invite external speakers, either from within the university or outwith, to come and present their work. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been running the seminar series virtually via Microsoft Teams.