KQ Policy News: October Update
- Connected Places Catapult and the UK Innovation Districts Group announced the launch of a new Research Commission on Inclusive Innovation. The Research Commission, which will report its findings in spring 2022, will analyse terms and business cases surrounding inclusive innovation as well as identify best practice from places of innovation across the UK.
- Building work has begun for Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust’s new 78-bed mental health hospital, which will help to care for the c.2500 patients. It will open in late 2023.
- University of the Arts London (UAL) announces the Fashion, Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI), directed by Professor Jane Harris, Director of Research & Innovation at London College of Fashion, to pioneer research and development for the UK’s £74 billion industry.
- UAL Decolonising Arts Institute awarded £3m AHRC grant to transform UK collections using emerging technologies. The project is one of 5 national Discovery Projects awarded a total of £14.5m by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
- UCL has announced a new WHO Collaborating Centre for Arts & Health, building on a long-standing partnership to advance the understanding of how arts, culture, and heritage affect our mental and physical health.
- Professor Anthony Finkelstein, President of City, University of London, has been appointed to the Board of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). He joined City UoL in 2015, from his position as the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security.
- The Alan Turing Institute has announced Professor Mark Girolami as its first Chief Scientist. Girolami is the Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he also holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering (DCE).
- Digital Catapult has announced two open calls for early stage businesses and SME’s working on net zero focused tech solutions. UK India net zero challenge and the Net zero supply chain challenge.
- The London Universities Purchasing Consortium have published their LUPC Strategy for 2021-2024.
- The National Engineering Policy Centre (a partnership of 43 of the UK’s professional engineering organisations including IOM3) has published a report ‘Decarbonising construction: building a new net zero industry’.
- The Reading Agency launch the Reading Adventure to Year 6 and Year 7 pupils as part of ‘Get Islington Reading’.
- The NLA has published a report, ‘Resilient London: confronting climate change’ reviewing the status of climate resilience strategies and actions plans across the capital, as well as the ability and skills of the built environment industry to build and design for a changing climate, and the barriers that we are facing to implement effective resilience approaches in the capital.
- UCL has launched a Global Business School for Health to address challenges in the health sector and train a new generation of students focused on healthcare management and leadership.
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