I help uni researchers to move boundaries and change society. That's the idea, anyway. Tweets here are, in my opinion, interesting, important and/or funny.
West Yorkshire, UK
Joined November 2009
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Liam Sutton retweeted
Our NHS is facing winter pressures and higher than expected cases of COVID, flu, RSV and norovirus. Our service providers are struggling to respond. In @ConversationUK we discuss the impact on patients and outline self and pharmacy support mechanisms. theconversation.com/the-uk-c…
Snap-Cap!
@resandmag
ALT 2 bald, bespectacled, middle-aged men in identical flat caps.
Liam Sutton retweeted
Leadership is often perceived as a static set of skills or characteristics that one either possesses or does not. However, this perception fails to capture the dynamic and context-dependent nature of leadership.
The description I use “Leadership is an improvisational practice that occurs in a group in a particular set of circumstances” encapsulates this complexity.
I’ll dissect this statement to explain my understand of its implications and how it reshapes understanding of effective leadership. -
typeshare.co/shauncoffey/pos…
So almost 60% of private schools are special schools, cf 10% of state. I guess this would help account for some of this difference. gov.uk/government/statistics…
That said, only 22% of private pupils appear to have an EHC plan (is my reading of the FT story). So 42% is still high.
Liam Sutton retweeted
We asked you who you mainly share your results with.
No surprise that you answered: "other researchers".
But to have real impact, it's also important to engage with policymakers, civil society & business.
Find out why this is so crucial for your research ⬇️
Liam Sutton retweeted
I met with the team at @Bradmanagement to discuss their strategies to engage business, local communities and develop the next generations of Bradford’s entrepreneurs.
As the oldest Business Management School in the UK, I know they share my passion for development of the city and I look forward to continuing to collaborate with them.
Liam Sutton retweeted
Are you applying to the @ahrcpress #CreativeCommunities Community Innovation Practitioner Awards 2025-6?
Read the call guidance & register for our EOI webinar 👀
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AHRC's Creative Communities, hosted by @NorthumbriaUni is extending to 2027, with an additional £1.7m funding committed.
This collaborative initiative re-imagines research in response to community needs.
More from Programme Director @ProfKatyShaw:
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ALT Quote from the blog: "Research doesn’t just happen in a lab: it happens on doorsteps and local neighbourhood streets, civic spaces and town centres, schools and hospitals, cities, coasts and countryside, through diverse digital and physical creative communities." ~ Katy Shaw, Programme Director, Arts and Humanities Research Council Creative Communities AHRC logo
Liam Sutton retweeted
Please respond by tomorrow to help us design the best medtech/healthtech training course for you! #medtech #healthcareinnovation #healthtech #skillsdevelopment
Medtech and healthtech innovators - help us shape the content of a new training offering from Medipex, @HealthInnovYH and @Devices4Dignity by filling in this short survey: this will allow us to understand your greatest training needs docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Liam Sutton retweeted
Congratulations to our (@RWilliamsonLab) PhD student Laila who passed her viva with minor corrections. Thanks to examiners @kevwilkinson & Dr Muller and chair @gi_helfer.
@ICT_Bradford @UoBPaMS @ULifesci
Liam Sutton retweeted
MRSA, an antimicrobial resistance superbug, causes over 120,000 deaths per year. A new study led by @sheffielduni, funded by @UKRI, has revealed the bugs’ double defence mechanism against antibiotics - a crucial step in developing new ways to target its survival strategy. Read more 👇
sheffield.ac.uk/news/mrsas-d…
Liam Sutton retweeted
Enjoyed this, and especially the points in support of public R&D funding
On basic research: “the value of an idea goes way beyond the value captured by the person who created it”
“You're stumbling around in the dark, and then someone finds something, they flip on a light switch…When I turn that light on, I create all that value from everyone else being able to see, but I don't capture it myself”
In the federal government, whose job is it to think about productivity growth?
The answer, it turns out, is "no one's."
New Statecraft, on our unused levers to increase productivity. statecraft.pub/p/does-anyone…
Liam Sutton retweeted
The real job of the manager is not to plan, organize, coordinate, and control, but to enable others to do their work.
#ThinkingOnThursday #quote
Key point: R&D is investment, not consumption.
Why not rebadge UKRI budgets as capital not day-to-day spend, while we're doing the right thing with the fiscal rules?
Scientific research needs robust government backing, not Treasury penny-pinching | Andre Geim and Nancy Rothwell | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Liam Sutton retweeted
Pick up @yorkshirepost this weekend or read online pre budget analysis by @RalphBlackburn including myself & @olivercoppard better prospects for #NorthernPowerhouseRail
Re-writing fiscal rules is a big deal, & will make possible a more productive #North
yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/pol…
Liam Sutton retweeted
Key attributes for effective knowledge brokering at the interface between research and practice - new paper by @DenisKarcher, @ChrisCvitanovic and others link.springer.com/article/10…...
Liam Sutton retweeted
I distilled my 4 years of marketing lessons into minimalistic visuals.
1. Sell Benefits. Not features.
Liam Sutton retweeted
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£750k funding for up to 10 new CIPs in 3 devolved nations or 12 MCAs in England to work with communities & cross sector partnerships to grow new cultural RD&I
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#devolution #Research #Missions
Liam Sutton retweeted
From mind-bending virtual reality explorations into other people’s lives to thrifty cooking workshops, join our researchers for a series of thought-provoking free events as the Festival of Social Science returns to Sheffield.
Explore the full programme: bit.ly/3YrZePN
#ESRCFestival
ALT People preparing food at a cooking workshop
ALT A person trying a virtual reality exhibit
Liam Sutton retweeted
Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Liam Sutton retweeted
How to get UK university spinouts out of the ‘valley of death’ on.ft.com/3Y0l4th | opinion
