Both my Heriot-Watt Crucible funding applications were successful. The ChipSHOP team of myself, Tom Aspray, Iain Bethune, Birgit Gaiser, Maiwenn Kersaudy-Kerhoas and Prashant Valluri are going to be working on a project aiming to improve the understanding and the design of lab-on-chip devices for separation of complex biological and environmental samples. Also along with Pamela Cameron and Birgit Gaiser I'll be looking into nanoparticle impacts on waterborne protozoa.
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I've set up a dedicated blog to reporting on my Media Fellowship experiences: http://helenbridlemediafellowship.wordpress.com/
ESF Junior Summit 'Water: Unite and Divide. Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable future'6/7/2012 The European Science Foundation are holding a Junior Summit for early career researchers on the topic of water, which will take place in Italy between 27th and 30th August this year. My application to attend this interdisciplinary event was successful and I'm really looking forward to networking with early career researchers from around Europe and hopefully starting some new collaborations.
I have been shortlisted for the Royal Society Pairing Scheme. Not guaranteed I will get a place though - it depends on the number of MPs and Civil servants that the Royal Society are able to recruit to take part, and most importantly their geographical locations and interests. Hopefully, they will find someone to pair with me. If successful, I'll attend a Week in Westminster learning about policy development and then spend time on reciprocal visits with the MP or Civil servant.
Just received an e-mail confirming that my application to the British Science Association Media Fellowship was successful. I'll be spending 3-4 weeks full time between July and early September on placement at the Scotsman in Edinburgh. I will also attend press conferences and find and write stories from the British Science Festival Press Centre in Aberdeen from 3-8 September. I'm really excited to have been selected for this Fellowship and I think it will be a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the media and communicating science. When I read the reports from the previous Fellows, I was really impressed at how much they achieved during their placements and how they were actively involved in writing stories from day 1 so I'm sure this will be a challenging, fun and rewarding experience. More details about the scheme can be found here.
My application to the Scottish Crucible was successful and I joined 30 other researchers at the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Parliament for two excellent days on the 19th and 20th April. Looking forward to starting even more interdisciplinary projects!
I've been busy in the last few months taking part in the Heriot-Watt Crucible scheme. This was an excellent 6 day programme offering 30 early career researchers the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary collaborations and learn more about interacting with the media and policy makers as well as creativity, leadership and commercialisation. On the final session we had to form small teams and pitch a collaborative research idea to a judging panel. Our "fish and chip shop" team won the prize for the best pitch: see picture and online news article. We've now written up this project into a funding bid to obtain a small amount of money to kick-start this collaboration. I'm also hoping for another collaborative bid with Birgit Gaiser and Pamela Cameron to be funded.
Awarded a grant from the Initiating Knowledge Transfer Fund (IKTF) at the University of Edinburgh for developing research towards commercial goals. Ferdous Khan will therefore continue the work on polymer-protozoa interactions. Following on from our market assessment by IMS Consulting we've had several meetings with potential industry partners which has been very useful for focussing the next studies.
Good week this week with another paper being accepted by Environmental Science and Technology. This paper was written by myself, Harry Pickering, Mei Wu and Mark Bradley and dealt with polymer array screening of Giardia.
The review paper entitled "Detection of Cryptosporidium in Miniaturised Fluidic Devices" which I wrote with Maiwenn, Brian Miller, Despoina Gavriilidou, Frank Katzer, Lee Innes and Marc Desmulliez has just been accepted for publication in Water Research:)
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AuthorI hold a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Felowship at the University of Edinburgh, with a focus on the detection of waterborne pathogens. Archives
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