I volunteered earlier this month to take part in the Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre (EBSOC) project Skills lab, which aims to raise pupil awareness of technical and laboratory based careers, particularly among pupils who are undertaking a National 5 qualification in Lab Skills. This project aims to focus on pupils undertaking the Lab Skills […]

Research Laboratory Technician at the School of Engineering, Gordon Paterson, tells us about his role, why he cares about sustainability, and how he is making a positive difference in his place of work. College of Science and Engineering staff profile What are the key parts of your role? Ensuring that the lab experiments are functional […]

In the video below Tammy Piper, Tissue Bank Manager at The Biomarkers & Companion Diagnostic Group, CRUK Edinburgh Centre, shares her career journey, tells us more about her role and explains some techniques she uses in the laboratory.  

2021 here we are. How has your working life changed over the last year? Here at the Genetics Core, like so many other workplaces across the UK, we closed our doors in March 2020. A surge of planning began; how do we work from home? What is expected of us? How do we adapt our […]

A central tenet of the Technician Commitment is Visibility; to ensure that all technicians within the University of Edinburgh are identifiable and that the contribution of technicians is visible within and beyond our University. The University has an important role to play here ensuring that technicians are represented on websites and publicity as well as […]

  Tammy Piper is a Tissue Bank Manager at the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre. She recently won the MRC Medical Zone in the I’m a Scientist competition.    What is your role? My role as a tissue bank manager is to facilitate the collection, processing and archiving of thousands of breast cancer tissue samples […]

Takeshi Fujisawa, is a Senior Scientist and Laboratory Manager at the BHF Cardiovascular Biomarker laboratory in Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences in the QMRI, BioQuarter and shared some thoughts on his experience of becoming Professionally Registered as a Chartered Scientist (CSci)   “I was thrilled to be awarded Chartered Scientist from the Science Council and gain […]

In the University of Edinburgh we have more than 1,000 technicians – highly trained and experienced individuals with diverse skills working across all subject areas. Across the UK the technical community has been recognised as being at the forefront of the higher education and research sector’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  At the start of the […]

Designed for an internal University of Edinburgh audience the site provides a space where colleagues across the University can share work in progress, learning, insights, ideas, plans and resources as we prepare for the move to hybrid teaching for 2020/21.  We curate content built around a set of key and emerging themes.  We welcome your […]

Stuart Reid is a research assistant in Malcolm Dunlop’s Colon Cancer Genetics group at the IGMM. This is what he has to say on his Professional registration experience:   “I had been thinking of becoming professionally registered for a while. When the Professional registration fund was launched in Sept 2019 it gave me the impetus […]