Partner Forum 2021 resources

Sustainability: Adapting to change

The NTDC 2021 Partner Forum was held on 21 October 2021 to great success. The event focused on sustainability and adapting to change in the technical workforce, looking at innovative and creative solutions to shared problems.

We had brilliant guests and speakers including keynote speaker Professor Lenny Koh from the Energy Institute at the University of Sheffield who discussed the Net Zero carbon campus. In addition we had parallel sessions from Dr Annette Bramley of the N8 Research Partnership, the LEAF pilot group (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework), Career development initiatives from Imperial College London and University of Glasgow, and many more sessions.

The NTDC is committed to providing organisations and their technical communities with access to information, expertise and a range of research and tools specifically designed to support the delivery of high-quality technical services across all sectors. We have released videos of all the sessions from the event to enable people to digest all the content from the parallel sessions at their leisure.

Resources and videos

Welcome and keynote with Lenny Koh

1A RITG - Who we are, what we hope to achieve

1B HEaTED - Future fit technicians

2A LEAF - Pilot project

2B Advance HE for technical staff

2C Fabric of the city

3A 'Keeping up with the Joneses': A candid look at benchmarking within higher education

3B ‘We got the power’: The role of technicians in addressing challenges facing the research and innovation sector

3C Professional and career development for our technicians: Imperial College London and University of Glasgow

Closing remarks with Mel Leich