{"id":149,"date":"2014-01-15T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.blogs.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/?p=149"},"modified":"2014-02-25T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:35:05","slug":"day-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/day-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Jones, Aerospace Collaboration Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2014\/01\/ben-jones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150 alignleft\" alt=\"ben-jones\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2014\/01\/ben-jones.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/b>We went to interview Ben Jones, Aerospace Collaboration Manager, in Research and Innovation Services to find out what his job involves and what his average day consists of.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">A description of Ben\u2019s job: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>My job is to consolidate aerospace activities, to win more funding for the University and raise the profile of aerospace internally and for the University in the aerospace sector.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">My average day:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>08.30<\/strong> &#8211; after driving in from Chandlers Ford, I fire up my emails and take a look at what is on the agenda for the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.00<\/strong> \u2013 my day is currently taken up with heading up two key projects. The first is organising an event in February which will see key speakers, industry partners and academics come together to develop new collaborations and partnerships for aerospace. The second project is working with Clean Sky 2, an ambitious European aeronautical research programme, to decipher what level of involvement Southampton should have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12.30<\/strong> \u2013 lunchtime, I pop over to SUSU shop for a sandwich.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13.30<\/strong> \u2013 afternoons are often busy networking with industries. Last year I was regularly out of the office, building partnerships with companies such as Rolls Royce, Airbus, Boeing and with SMES at Chilworth Science Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15.30<\/strong> &#8211; if I am not out of the office, I will regularly be networking with people across the University and will be visiting colleagues to seek out new collaborations. I am particularly interested in multidisciplinary collaborations \u2013 so if you think your work may in some way link with aerospace let me know!<\/p>\n<p><strong>17.30<\/strong> \u2013 I leave work and try not to take my work home with me!<\/p>\n<p>Evening \u2013 I have recently bought a new house, so my evenings are currently spent refitting my kitchen!<\/p>\n<p>To get in touch with Ben and find out more about his work email <a href=\"mailto:B.Jones@soton.ac.uk\">B.Jones@soton.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0and to find out about Ben&#8217;s Autonomous and Advanced Systems Showcase event on <a href=\"http:\/\/isoton.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/30\/next-generation-of-aerospace-and-advanced-systems-showcased-in-southampton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monday 3 February click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to interview Ben Jones, Aerospace Collaboration Manager, in Research and Innovation Services to find out what his job involves and what his average day consists of. &nbsp; A description of Ben\u2019s job: My job is to consolidate aerospace activities, to win more funding for the University and raise the profile of aerospace internally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34149,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}