Research
Research and teaching
The university has been a constant since 2001. Research is where the method comes from: how evidence is weighed, how systems fail and how people decide.
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Four lenses
Each discipline added a way of looking at a problem. The ventures use all four at once.
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Mechanical engineering
Systems, tolerances and how things fail.
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Biomedical engineering, to doctoral level
Technology in contact with the human body, and the discipline of research: forming a question and testing it.
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Philosophy of science
What counts as evidence, and how knowledge is justified.
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Management of health services, culture and business
How care, creative work and companies are organised, financed and run.
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Questions that run through the work
These questions are studied in practice. Each one is visible in how particular ventures are built.
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Evidence and provenance
How a system shows where each claim came from, who checked it and what is still unknown.
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Human judgement in automated work
Where automation helps, and where a person must stay in charge, with review, approval and a record of who decided what.
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One record for a whole field
Why complicated fields need one shared record rather than another tool: one place where the work, the evidence and the decisions meet.
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Language and access
Building for readers of many languages from the first release, with right-to-left scripts treated as first-class.
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Acting under pressure
How institutions keep acting on reliable information when conditions are at their worst.
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The method, in three questions
- Is the problem real?
- Can the solution actually be built and run?
- Will it create lasting value?
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Teaching and knowledge transfer
As a full-time faculty member, the work has been to turn complex scientific and technical ideas into knowledge that is clear, structured and usable, in teaching, in research and in product development.
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University faculty member
Full-time since 2001, teaching and research.
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Mentor and evaluator
Business mentor and evaluator of feasibility studies for new ventures.
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Start-up adviser
Adviser on starting businesses and on entrepreneurship.
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Talks and workshops
Specialist talks and workshops on technology, product and entrepreneurship.
Academic collaboration
Open to joint research, specialist talks, workshops and knowledge-transfer programmes with universities and research institutions.