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 […]

Fiona Alderson, Technical Services Manager for Sciences and Engineering, gives a run down of the Science Council’s Technical Manager’s in Higher Education Summer Lunch in September 2017.   On 8 September, the Science Council hosted a lunch in the beautiful Burlington House in London to provide Technical Managers in Higher Education with a forum to […]

CPD – what is it and where does it come from?   Continuing Professional Development is the means by which people maintain their knowledge and skills related to their professional lives both currently and in the future. CPD comprises updating particular areas of competence, developing personal and managerial skills and broadening experience and expertise.   […]

This week’s guest post is a member of a critical, but sometimes unsung, community at Edinburgh – our technical staff.  Marianne Keith is currently a research technician based at The Roslin Institute.   I am currently working in a research environment, having chopped and changed several times since starting on my career path back in […]

Technicians and their work are vital to the research and teaching work undertaken within universities, but they have become unsung heroes. Andrew Arnott explains how a dedicated group is now trying to change that at University of Edinburgh.   #TechniciansMakeItHappen. This is the hashtag of an awareness raising campaign run by the Gatsby Foundation and the Science Council aiming to improve […]

Andrew Arnott, Lab Sustainability Coordinator, reflects on the recent HEaTED event at Easter Bush. Will this year be a turning point for technical staff? Over 60 people made the journey to attend the latest HEaTED Scotland Network event on our Easter Bush Campus on 30th May. For those unfamiliar with the group, HEaTED is a membership organisation which works […]

Last week I was lucky enough to be able to attend a media workshop “Standing up for Science” organised by the “Voice of Young Science” network, run by the charity “Sense about Science”. The event was held on Friday 22nd of September, and hosted by the University of Edinburgh. Sense about Science are a charity […]