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University of Edinburgh Technicians

University of Edinburgh Technicians

Blogs by Technicians Sharing Experiences, Best Practice and More

Tag: Management

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 […]

  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 […]

Alistair Craig is the Technical Learning Services Manager for Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and shared some thoughts about continuing professional development (CPD) with the Bulletin Magazine.   Photo by Sam Sills “I’ve been a technician at the University for 25 years; the first 15 as a workshop technician, and the last 10 as a technical manager. […]

Neil Johnston, Laboratory Manager at the Centre for Cardiovascular Science, tells how the centre is saving energy after using the Sustainable Campus Fund to purchase more efficient freezer equipment. New efficient freezers and energy-saving items Neil applied for £10,600 of funding to purchase seven efficient ultra-low temperature (-80°C) freezers and one efficient -20°C freezer, along […]

We asked Caroline Delahoyde, Technical Support Officer in the School of Engineering to tell us a little about her and her teams’ experience hosting a local high school pupil who is working toward Foundation Apprenticeship. Caroline tells us more:   We have been hosting a Foundation Apprentice here in the School of Engineering within our […]

On September 18th the annual Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Technical Conference was held in Birmingham and I was one of a small number of attendees from the University of Edinburgh. The IST is an independent body which is firmly committed to the enhancement of professional development and recognition for technical and specialist staff […]

The aim of the Core Technologies for Life Sciences (CTLS) is to ‘bring together scientists, technical and administrative staff working in or in close association with core facilities, research infrastructures and shared resource laboratories in life sciences and biomedicine’.  The third biennial CTLS conference was held from 1st– 4th July 2018 in Ghent at the […]

There are many wonderful things to be said about technical careers but having a clear progression pathway isn’t generally one of them. Within The University of Edinburgh, there is a pathway for academic staff. There are problems with it, but there are forms to fill out, courses to go on and titles associated with different […]

22nd of February 2018. A day that will long live in the memories of the ECRF genetics core team. A day we downed pipettes, left the lab and headed out for a day of team building. The day started in 50 George Square, where we had a meeting room booked for the mornings activities. First […]

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