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Silverstone Park Schools Careers Programme Enters Sixth Year
Business volunteers to deliver careers advice to hundreds of Year 8 & 9 students6,500 'meaningful encounters' with students during 2022-23 academic yearThe Buckingham School, Sponne School & Kingsthorpe College are all partner schools The Silverstone Park...
Sci-Tech Daresbury seeks contractor for Violet Phase Two following planning approval
Sci-Tech Daresbury has received reserved matters planning approval from Halton Borough Council for Violet Phase Two, a c.£24 million speculative development. The project is set to deliver a further c.80,000 sq ft of prime real estate to the national science and...
Discovery Park Ventures expands fund to £3m to invest in more innovative science and technology start-ups
Discovery Park Ventures (DPV) announces the expansion of its early-stage life science fund from £1m to £3m, in order to capitalise on exciting investment opportunities and support its existing portfolio. The fund’s investors have committed an additional £2m, which...
The Daphne Jackson Trust Honoured with Prestigious Royal Society Research Culture Award
The Daphne Jackson Trust, a leading organisation dedicated to supporting researchers returning to their career after a break, has been recognised by The Royal Society for its outstanding contribution to the culture of science and research. This prestigious award...
The Knowledge Cauldron: A Lesson for SciTech from Higher Education
Author: Martin Jarvie, Architect Associate, BDP Over the past decade universities have intensified collaboration. In some cases, natural consortia have sprung up due to shared history or geographical proximity, while other institutions have been prompted to explore...
Birmingham Biomedical Incubator Lands National Award
Unit 9, a biomedical incubator managed by University of Birmingham Enterprise, has won the prestigious ‘Place-based initiative of the Year’ award from PraxisAuril, the UK’s professional association for Knowledge Exchange and commercialisation between universities and...
Communicate celebrates double shortlisting in prestigious awards
National IT, telecoms and cyber-security specialists, Communicate, celebrate dual shortlisting in this year’s Cyber Security Awards. The company has been nominated for the third time running in the Threat Detection Product of the Year category, and this year their...
New Director at Harwell Campus for Rosalind Franklin Institute
The Rosalind Franklin Institute at Harwell Campus announces Professor Paul Matthews as its new Institute Director. The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a national research institute developing new technologies to tackle important health research challenges. Funded by UK...
Laing O’Rourke signs Oxford North’s Red Hall and first laboratory buildings
Laing O’Rourke has secured the contract to deliver phase 1a of Oxford North’s £700 million new innovation district to deliver the Red Hall, and the first two laboratory buildings. Oxford North will deliver one million sq ft (92,903 sq m) of laboratory and workspaces,...
Plymouth Science Park grows board with two new members
Plymouth Science Park welcomes two new non-executive directors, Amber Morley and Kerry Hayes, bringing experience in renewable energy and economic development. Kerry Hayes has made significant contributions to the renewable energy sector in the South West for over a...
Oxford North’s new landmark timber cycle pavilion approved by Oxford City Council
Plans have been approved by Oxford City Council to create a new landmark timber cycle pavilion in the heart of Oxford North to provide secure long-stay and short-stay spaces for phase 1a of Oxford’s new £700 million innovation district. Designed by the project’s...
Greensphere brings together world’s largest group of leading science institutes to launch £150 million venture fund tackling climate change and biodiversity loss
Specialist fund manager Greensphere Capital announces it is bringing together the world’s largest group of globally-renowned bioscience and environmental science institutes to launch the Gaia Sciences Innovation partnerships. Greensphere will raise a £150 million fund...
Chesterford Research Park begins construction of 60,000 sq ft fossil fuel free Sidney Sussex Building
New 60,000 sq ft multi-occupancy building will provide additional space for life science companies within Cambridge cluster Chesterford Research Park which is owned by Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, alongside Uttlesford District...
Creating the Knowledge Cauldron: Optimising Building Typologies
Designing for high-tech science, innovation and research starts in a decisively low-tech manner – by face-to-face communication. By working together in the same location, in places where knowledge can be shared within an expansive SciTech ecosystem, valuable...
Kent’s Property Market Recovery Reflects Changing Ways of Working and Living
The performance of the county’s property industry reflects the recent changes to how the public lives, works and plays, according to this year’s Kent Property Market Report. Recognising that the country has experienced the economic shocks of the emergence from Covid;...