Midlands Innovation makes national technician commission pledge

Midlands Innovation universities have committed to implementing the recommendations from a national policy commission that will strengthen the future of technical skills and staff in higher education and research. The TALENT Commission repo...

Midlands Innovation researchers leading on place-based research

Researchers in the Midlands are developing novel place-based research projects that are addressing some of the biggest social and economic challenges affecting communities.   Midlands Innovation universities (Aston, Birmingham, Cranfie...

Midlands Innovation partners evidence research excellence in REF 2021

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) results which assess and benchmark the quality of the UK’s higher education research impact and outputs have been published. Since forming a research partnership in 2015, the eight research-inte...

Blog: Director’s Diary

From welcoming the Government’s Levelling Up Taskforce to the region, to joining the British Academy’s Early Career Researchers Network Advisory Board. MI Director, Dr Helen Turner, blogs about these and other recent initiatives that...

Guest blog: Can the sector improve funding technicians in research to meet future demand from emerging sectors?

This article is authored by Dr Ian Hancox, Technician Research Engagement Manager at the University of Warwick and Co-lead of TALENT – a Research England funded project led by Midlands Innovation. The UK’s research an...

Flow cytometry experts celebrate collaborative research culture

The Midlands is at the forefront of cutting-edge flow cytometry research, thanks to one of the longest-standing Midlands Innovation research networks which has grown from strength-to-strength since 2015. The annual Midlands Innovation Flow...