Huddersfield Researcher Shaping the Future UK Manufacturing Resea
Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:18:00 GMT
Dr Haydn Martin, senior research fellow at the University of Huddersfield’s EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology, is one of 20 academics from the UK who has been chosen to be a member of a newly formed Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research.
The forum was launched last year by the EPSRC, the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences. It aims to bring together early career academics who have the potential to become future leaders in fields of UK manufacturing research.
The forum meets quarterly and Dr Haydn Martin has just returned from the second meeting where the group discussed a range of issues including:
- influencing science and technology policy
- developing research proposals
- engaging with industry and fostering relationships (from testing the water to mutual enterprise)
- building research oollaborations
- outreach activities.
Dr Martin said: “It was a great privilege to be chosen to be part of the Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research and I am honoured to be seen as a potential future leader. Over the course of my career I hope to be very active in developing the UK’s worldwide standing at the forefront of manufacturing research.”
For more information about the Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research visit the EPSRC website.
Dr Haydn Martin (left) discussing his cutting edge research with Business secretary Dr Vince Cable (centre left) and University of Huddersfield Vice-Chancellor Professor Bob Cryan (centre right) at the launch of the EPSRC Centre.
