Over 70 people turned out for the impactQ summer party. They heard Professors John Allen, Byron Cook and John Stark talk about what research impact meant to them.
We concluded that interaction with people and problems who can stimulate new ideas and thinking is good, but any idea that research can be produced "to order" or that all research must be with an industry partner is likely to hamper creativity. There were some particularly lively quotes.
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"Listen up hi tech start-ups! Get a PhD student or post doc seconded 2 work 4 U 4 FREE! New govt funded scheme: ImpactQM" Lord Drayson, Science Minister, 3rd September 2009
About this blog
This blog is maintained by Ursula Martin, Director, and other colleagues on the impactQM team at Queen Mary University of London. We are planning the impactQM project, which starts in October 2009. The project includes a scheme which will give PhD students and post-docs the opportunity of a salaried job placement with an external organisation. We very much want input from PhD students, postdocs, and early career researchers in science and engineering subjects at Queen Mary.
Follow impactQM on twitter at http://twitter.com/impactQM
Check out Queen Mary's careers resources for postdocs and PhDs at http://drcresearcher.blogspot.com/
Forthcoming events
16th November 2009, 3pm - 6pm , launch event in the Octagon with
Principal Simon Gaskell
Professor Ursula Martin, Director of impactQM
Professor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research and 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer
Professor Dave Delpy, Chief Executive EPSRC
Professor Peter Grindrod, mathematician and entrepreneur
Professor Adrian Smith Director of Science and Research at DIUS
Dr Lincoln Wallen Head of Research and Development at Dreamworks Animation
Past events
3rd September 2009, Lord Drayson, Science Minister, visited Queen Mary to see impactQM
18th August 2009, impactQM summer party, 4-7 in the SCR with guest speakers Professors John Allen (SBCS), Byron Cook (EECS), John Stark (SEMS), to attend email events@qmul.ac.uk
15th June 2009, 5pm, SCR bar, impact QM project update, to attend email events@qmul.ac.uk
19th May 2009, 5pm, SCR bar, Introducing the KTA project, to attend email events@qmul.ac.uk