Financial Statements 2019/2020
above: Periodic Table projection on the front of College Building
Awards and competition wins
Associate Professor in Computer Science Gill Whitney was awarded a Distinguished Service Certificate by the British Standards Institute. It recognises her valuable contribution to the development of British, European and International standards. The Department of Computer Science won a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence for its approach to our first-year Computing and Design Engineering curriculum. Our student team ‘Brainstorm’ won the Judges’ Award for Most Innovative Solution at the Eurobot 2019 robotics competition. Held in Paris, the event featured 188 French and 33 international teams.
Middlesex robot Pepper caught the eye of the judges at the annual HEIST awards for excellence and innovation in higher education marketing. We picked up a bronze award for Best PR/Communications Campaign for Pepper’s appearance in Parliament. The Faculty also took bronze in the Community/Business Engagement campaign category for our 2018 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Festival.
A Faculty team of 118 students and staff, and colleagues from Professional Services, attended WorldSkills UK Live, the UK’s largest skills, apprenticeships and careers event. The national finals of the Worldskills UK competitions took place at the event, with our students winning a silver medal in Building Information Modelling and silver and bronze medals in Robotics. Our team also demonstrated exhibits and games to the school groups and families visiting the event. Lavanya Hemanth, a third year Biotechnology student, has been named in the next UK Squad for WorldSkills, which will be held in Shanghai in 2021. Lavanya is selected for the Chemical Laboratory Technician competition.
Research funding and awards
Dr Mariachiara Di Cesare, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, is part of an influential global consortium working to understand the challenge of obesity. Chiara and her colleagues published research papers in Nature and The Lancet Global Health journals. She also led work on a drug
treatment for atrial defibrillation (a condition where the heart beats irregularly) which has now been included in the 21st Edition of the World Health Organisation Model List of Essential Medicines.
We challenge the world to think afresh about solutions. A team from our Interaction Design Centre secured funding to research emerging technologies in defence scenarios. The project is part of the Ministry of Defence Human Social Science Research Capability framework. Other research grant awards include a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for Dr Emma Ward, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, who is looking at implicit memory decline in aging.
Campus events: welcoming the wider community
International academic and industry specialists came to Middlesex for the opening of the London Digital Twin Research Centre – a leading hub for study of digital transformation technologies. The launch event was combined with a workshop on Digital Twins for Global Digital Transformation which was attended by sponsors and partners.
On 21 November 2019, we were one of ten universities to project the Periodic Table onto their buildings in support of Chemistry Week. Supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the event highlighted important elements that are now in danger of running out and what we can do to help. Our Department of Psychology turned 50 in 2019. A celebratory event brought together past and present members of the Department and featured speeches on the future of the discipline.
Dr Britta Stordal and colleagues from the Department of Natural Sciences hosted students from four European universities for Biomedical Science International Week. The Faculty also hosted a Health IT Workshop which focused on legal, ethical and social aspects of new and emerging technologies in healthcare.
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