Prof Lud de Witte speaking at the CATCH Networking Lunch |
New CATCH Professor Luc de Witte and the pull of a sneaky
peak of our new and improved Home Lab made the October event our most
successful Networking Lunch to date.
More than 50 CATCH colleagues including academics,
researchers and professional services staff joined collaborators from across
the University and beyond to celebrate one year since the launch of the six
weekly events.
Following a lively networking session, Professor Luc de
Witte kicked off the talks by introducing himself, taking the audience through
his recent work, research interests and his reasons for coming to Sheffield. We
were delighted to hear that he shares our vision that CATCH has the potential to become one of the
leading centres for applied health research in the field of assistive
technology and connected healthcare.
Rachel Dwyer, Research Development Officer for Medicine,
Dentistry and Health then shared valuable tips with the room on finding current
funding opportunities. Useful techniques like setting up alerts via funders’
websites so you hear first when calls go live as well as reviewing projects in
your area that have previously been funded and looking out for future calls
from that funder were recommended.
In a change to the usual Networking Lunch format, attendees
then excitedly joined Anneliese Fraser and the team in the new and improved
CATCH Home Lab to network over coffee and cake and discover how the facility
can be used in upcoming research.
Speaking in the run up to the event, Professor Pam Enderby
reiterated why these lunches are important: “So much more can be achieved by working
together and the CATCH Networking Lunches are great to facilitate this!”
The next Networking Lunch will be held on Wednesday 30th
November from 12.15 - 14.00 in the Pemberton Lecture Theatre A, Regent Court.
We’ll be joined by Marcus Crossley, Senior Project
Engineer from the Medical AMRC as well as Dr Julie Robillard from
the University of British Columbia whose research interests include emerging
technologies related to dementia research and patient engagement.
We really hope that you will be able to join us. Please
contact Laura Murray if you would like to be added to
the delegate list.
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