Richard France |
My background cuts across
research, commercialisation and knowledge exchange, predominantly at the life
science – engineering interface. I obtained my degree and PhD at Sheffield in
materials science and then spent over 10 years as a researcher in the area of
biomaterials and tissue engineering. This included time as an academic
researcher before moving into industry, working for a spinout company on the
development of new scaffold systems for tissue repair and novel in-vitro assays for drug testing.
In 2007, I moved back to the
University of Sheffield to work in knowledge exchange, first setting up and
managing the N8 METRC Centre and then managing the University’s
EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Account.
My role as Centre Development
Manager involves managing day-to-day activities for the Centre. Initially this
includes coordinating the recruitment of new academic staff, meeting with the 30+
Centre members to understand their research interests and working up a business
case for the ‘Living Lab’ – a real world home environment for the evaluation of
new technologies.
[written by Richard France]
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