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University of Edinburgh Technicians

University of Edinburgh Technicians

Blogs by Technicians Sharing Experiences, Best Practice and More

Tag: #TechniciansMakeItHappen

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 […]

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 […]

Connecting students with science  Applications are now open to find 25 MRC researchers and technical experts for the next I’m a Scientist Medical Research Zone in March 2020. Shonna Johnston, Flow Cytometry Facility Manager at the University of Edinburgh Queen’s Medical Research Institute, shares why more technicians should give it a go.   Earlier this […]

I was given the opportunity to attend the STEMM Change Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: A Technician Lens report launch at the Royal Society of Chemistry on the 14th of November 2019, as a representative of the University of Edinburgh Technician Steering Committee (TSC). This event was a standalone component of the STEMM Change annual conference, […]

The 4th Technician Commitment signatory event was an opportunity for signatories to come together to share ideas and their experiences of the Technician Commitment so far – what is working, successful and to be celebrated and what is more challenging and requires further effort, resource and perhaps a re-think. The event also saw 8 new […]

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