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- A Tricks of the Trade workshop with Nick Tyler
10am to 12 noon, Monday, 13 November 2017
Venue: Wilkins Garden Room, (this room is just to the right of the Jeremy
Bentham auto-icon), just off South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, UCL)
REGISTER (waiting list in operation)
In this session,
Professor Nick Tyler (Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering UCL) will
lead a discussion on the ways in which early career researchers can challenge
the disciplinary hegemony driving much of current research and develop their
own ways to create new ways of tackling the problems facing the world. Based on
his own experience of developing interdisciplinary research, he will suggest
tactics for being creative while at the same time meeting the requirements for
promotion criteria, publication rates, grant applications and other necessary
parts of an early career researcher's working life.
Please note the following points/requirements:
- This will be a participative small group session; only 20 spaces are available
- This session is open to all UCL early career researchers regardless of discipline
- Particpants will be asked to answer three short questions about their research interests and experience which will be shared with the other participants at the meeting
- if you register for a place but subsequently do not attend the session and do not inform the organiser beforehand (m.reade@ucl.ac.uk) your department will be charged a proportion of the organisation costs
- REGISTER (waiting list in operation)
About Nick Tyler
Nick Tyler is Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, and investigates
the ways in which people interact with their immediate environments. He
set up the Accessibility Research Group within the Centre for Transport
Studies, with a team of researchers investigating many aspects of
accessibility and public transport. The group has a total research
portfolio of more than £20million for projects including the PAMELA
pedestrian environment laboratory, which is being used to develop models
for accessible pedestrian infrastructure.
Nick is also the Director of
the UCL CRUCIBLE Centre, which is a multi-Research Council funded Centre
for interdisciplinary research on lifelong health and wellbeing and involves
researchers from all 8 faculties in UCL.
Nick holds a PhD from
University College London, where his thesis was on a methodology for the
design of high capacity bus systems using artificial intelligence. He
was on the winning team for the EC-funded 'City Design in Latin America
2000: The European City as a Model' competition, for the design of the
transport interchange at Federico Lacroze in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He
is currently part of the UK invovlement in the Chinese Low Carbon
Cities Development project. He is a member of the UK HM Treasury
Infrastructure UK's Engineering Interdpendencies Expert Group. He is a
Fellow of the Institution of Ciivil Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts. He was appointed a CBE in the New Year's Honours 2011
for services to technology and elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering in 2014.