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. […]

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 […]

Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Technical Conference 2018 Photo from left to right: Scott Denham (ECRF Mass Spec Core), Fiona Alderson, Caroline Delahoyde and Richard Blair (School of Engineering). The annual IST Technical Conference was held this year in September in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and a number of colleagues from the University of Edinburgh attended. The […]

The Technician Commitment was set up by the Science Council and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in universities and research institutes.   The third Technician Commitment signatory event was held on 6th November 2018 at the Tower of London to welcome the third round of […]