Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Funding was awarded by Research England in 2020 for ‘TALENT’ – a transformation programme to advance status and opportunity for technical skills, roles and careers. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022.
HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. In this post, Professor Trevor McMillian OBE, Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, explores how technicians help to innovate and drive forward sustainable ideas.
Universities up and down the country are working on solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. At Keele, our passion for sustainability and vision for a healthier, more environmentally conscious world drives us forward. These values permeate everything we do on our campus.
This drive and our ambition have enabled us to take part in pioneering projects that are helping to push the country’s sustainable credentials forward, by demonstrating not only the viability of projects like hydrogen blending and smart energy, but also the benefits of them, and the necessity for innovations like these to be rolled out more widely.
