Welcome to the latest news from the N8 Research Partnership.
I am very proud of our latest collaboration, the N8 Policing Research Partnership, which is making such great progress. We held our ‘Collaborating for Excellence and Innovation’ conference earlier this year. It was very positive to see so many N8 academic experts across different research areas, like cyber crime, drugs and alcohol and domestic violence, connecting with colleagues from police forces across the North.
Another exciting collaboration is a programme of research between N8 academics and charity groups looking at how prepared employees and businesses are for staff to be working longer in their lives. The project emerged from the N8 Industry Innovation Forum on healthy and active ageing, and I’m really pleased to see the Forum continuing to have such an impact in key challenge areas.
Across the N8, we’re proud that we have some of the most advanced research equipment in the world. Next month, a special workshop will take place to showcase some of the latest equipment and capability in a number of core areas in Chemistry research. This follows the recent EPSRC call for Chemistry equipment funding, and I am delighted that we’ll have colleagues from EPSRC speaking at the event.
And talking of world class, Polaris, the N8 High Performance Computing facility, has been used for more pioneering research - achieving in one day what would have normally taken eight months.
I hope you enjoy reading our latest news. As ever, please do get in touch if you have any feedback.
Sarah Jackson,
Director, N8 Research Partnership
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