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Initiatives

10 initiatives

Exhibition & Public Engagement

Artist in residence at BRASS: QR ribbon prints with Artstation

Participating researcherIn April 2012 the artist Glenn Davidson of Artstation, Cardiff, began a residency at BRASS, the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability an…

Exhibition & Public Engagement

Birmingham Energy Institute stand, UK–Qatar Business & Investment Forum

Designer and organiser of the standFor the Birmingham day of the UK–Qatar Business & Investment Forum on 28 March 2017, run by the Department for International Trade, Gavin designed and organised the Univ…

Policy Initiative

Doing Cold Smarter

Policy Commission Manager (co-ordinator)Thermal energy, both hot and cold, is one of the major energy challenges. The provision of cold, or cooling, is integral to modern society; without it, the supply of foo…

Regional Partnership

Energy Capital

The city of Birmingham has ambitious plans to deliver emission reductions, create a low-carbon infrastructure and to modernise how it deals with waste.Energy Capital aim…

Exhibition & Public Engagement

Energy Innovation Zone diagrams, Powering West Midlands Growth

Policy Commission Manager; drew the original concept diagramsA set of double-page isometric diagrams for the Regional Energy Policy Commission report Powering West Midlands Growth (2018), one for each proposed Energy Innovation Zo…

Consortium Building

Energy Research Accelerator

Seconded, with two colleagues from the University of Nottingham and the University of Warwick, to provide operational support to the Chief Executive Officer, Gordon Waddington, in the pre-revenue phase of the project before a Chief Operating Officer was appointedThe Energy Research Accelerator is a consortium of Aston University, the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester, Loughborough University, the University o…

Exhibition & Public Engagement

Human Power Station, BBC One 'Bang Goes the Theory'

Consultant to Electric Pedals; adviser to the programmeFor the Human Power Station special of BBC One's Bang Goes the Theory, made with The Open University, eighty cyclists powered a family home. Gavin was consultant to Elec…

Policy Initiative

Securing Technology-Critical Metals for Britain

CommissionerThe Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials and the Critical Elements and Materials (CrEAM) Network drew together a panel of experts to help secu…

Exhibition & Public Engagement

The New Precious Metals: Unearthing the Treasures in Our Everyday Tech

Co-Investigator on Met4Tech at the University of Birmingham; ran a science engagement and communication workshop at the launchThe New Precious Metals is a 3.5-metre interactive touring exhibit from Met4Tech, the UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for a Circular Economy of Technology Metals. Visitors…

Strategic Programme

University of Birmingham / Fraunhofer Joint Research Platform