Professor Trevor McMillan - Innovation and Knowledge Exchange in Universities: The development of a Knowledge Exchange Framework

Grand Challenges lecture series

Universities play a key societal role in supporting and enhancing the performance of a wide range of communities and organisations at local, regional, national and global scales. The nature of this, though, depends on the characteristics and strategies of individual universities. Academic strengths, portfolio, local environment all play a role in determining the nature and level of interaction with outside bodies. The importance of this has been recognised for some time by government in different ways and it is critical that we can demonstrate the extent and success of knowledge exchange in universities and commit to getting better at it.

A Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) should provide a mechanism for assessing performance and approaches to improvement, against the backdrop of the enormous variety of activities carried out in universities, and the variation between universities, in terms of what is appropriate for them to focus on. This lecture will consider the current proposed approaches to a Knowledge Exchange Framework.

Professor Trevor McMillan became Vice-Chancellor of Keele University in August 2015.

Before moving to Keele as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost in January 2014 he was at Lancaster University as Head of the Department of Biological Sciences, Dean of the Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences and then Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research.

His early research was carried out at the Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden Hospital and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. A radiation biologist, Trevor has published widely on the use of X-rays in radiotherapy and the harmful effects of long wavelength UV radiation in sunlight.

Currently, he has a national role as Knowledge Exchange Champion for Research England and has recently published a report on technology transfer from universities, the recommendations of which are to be implemented by government.

Refreshments will be available from 5.30pm onwards.

This lecture is free and all are welcome to attend.


Event date
Event Time
6:00PM
Location
Keele Hall, The Ballroom
Organiser
Steve Kilner or Jo Flynn
Contact email
ilas@keele.ac.uk
Contact telephone
+44 (0)1782 7 34449 / 34434