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New Generation Thinkers

A day at the BBC

BA Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Kate Guthrie talks about her recent experience at the New Generation Thinkers 2015 Finalists’ Workshop:  One of the major challenges facing academics today is to work out how their research can impact the world. In part, this matters because impact is now one of the criteria on which universities are assessed – and in my opinion rightly so. It makes sense that state-funded institutions should be accountable for their public benefit. Continue reading →