EEUK Vacancy: Policy Adviser
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Help strengthen the voice of enterprise education in public policy
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), working in partnership with Research England, has opened a new funding opportunity aimed at transforming how universities support the commercialisation of Creative Industries (CI) research.
The ETC Toolkit has grown into one of the most substantial resources available to our community: 100 case studies and 140 how-to guides supporting the development of QAA Enterprise, and 49 case studies and 82 how-to guides supporting the development of QAA Entrepreneurship.
As an eager Arts Foundation student back in 1985, I sat in the new TV and Video Editing suite at Cumbria College of Art and Design (now University of Cumbria) watching coloured pixels slowly building my portrait line by line on a screen. Perhaps I can claim it as an early selfie? It certainly seemed like some strange magic, my first taste of digital innovation. That moment from forty years ago stayed with me and influenced the choices I made later.
After more than a decade of shaping enterprise education at Lancaster University and across the wider sector, Simon is stepping away from his role at Work in Progress, and into a bold new chapter with his wife, Charlotte, and their young family in France.
There’s something rather special about IEEC. Each year, enterprise and entrepreneurship educators gather together and suddenly, ideas start flying, collaborations spark, and the energy in the room feels a bit like someone’s just plugged the conference into the National Grid.
Last month I was invited to join the EEUK Board of Directors to support a new MOU partnership with AGCAS, two memberships organisations which both hold a special place in my heart.
Anyone else ready for a break?! Those in student-facing roles may be starting the wind-down for summer (although I suspect I am far from alone in noticing that magical summer ‘break’ and ‘winding-down’ time seems to get shorter every year) where often we find ourselves completing Exam Boards and looking to the near future of semester 1 starting again in just a few short months.