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Connecting with Industry

Connecting with Industry. Heather M Wallace Industrial Liaison Group Medical Sciences and Medicine. Our credentials. Heather Wallace Chair of Industry Liaison Group Co-organiser of bio-business teaching Learned societies

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Connecting with Industry

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  1. Connecting with Industry Heather M Wallace Industrial Liaison Group Medical Sciences and Medicine

  2. Our credentials • Heather Wallace • Chair of Industry Liaison Group • Co-organiser of bio-business teaching • Learned societies • Royal College of Pathologists; British Toxicology Society; Biochemical Society • External Examiner currently • University of Surrey (MSc); University of Glasgow (BSc Med Sci) • Links with top 10 pharma via research & teaching • GSK; AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Sanofi Aventis

  3. Our credentials • Andy Porter • Founding academic – Haptogen, Remedios • Board director, investor in Scottish biotech • BIA Executive steering committee • LSA Executive steering committee • SSAC – advisor to Scottish Government • Consultant to SDI, EI and Wyeth Inc

  4. Overview • Industrial Liaison Group (ILG) • Remit • Aspirations • Changes to degrees • Why? • Additional products • Industrial placement • With Bio-Business

  5. Industrial Liaison Group • Remit • Support industrial placement for Medical Science students • Expand placement opportunities • Liaise with Industry • Inform our degree content • Industrial Liaison Advisory Board • Increase employability • Raise the profile of Aberdeen degrees • First or second choice of all Scottish school leavers

  6. Raising the profile of Aberdeen degrees • What can we offer that is different? • Optional extras • Bio-business, industrial placements, education • Improve the basic skills set of our graduates • What do employers want? • Graduates with high quality skills – transferable • Relevant experience • Solid scientific knowledge base • What do students want? • A career with long term potential

  7. What options can we offer that are different? • All our medical science degrees with industrial placement • Increases student choice • High quality knowledge based degree • Relevant experience – compete in job market • All our medical science degrees with Bio-business • Unique to Aberdeen • Increases employability • Broadens career opportunities – PhD to MBA

  8. New degree - MSci degree • Currently no credit given for 5 year degree • BSc (hons) with industrial placement • Rebadge our industrial placement • MSci • Offer as 4 or 5 year degree • Credits given for year out • More attractive to students

  9. Medical science degrees with Bio-Business • All degrees in medical sciences offered with Bio-business option • Level 1 or 2 • Introduction to Bio-Business (10 credits) • Level 3 • Bio-Business (15 credits) • Level 4 • Advanced Bio-Business (20 credits) • MBA in Biotechnology • In development with the Business School (and Law School)

  10. How is this different? • Enhancing our degree programmes • Empowering our graduates • Focussing scientific talent • Geared for employment • Achieving new potential • Facilitating new innovation • Sustainable Science • Scientists in the business world • Evidence based thinking

  11. Attributes for high quality science graduates • Scientific knowledge • High quality knowledge and understanding of scientific principles – grounded with understanding of real world issues • Practical skills • Experience of laboratory research • Honours year lab project (10 weeks) • 1 year full placement • MSci, 5 years • Summer placement projects (6-12 weeks) • Scientific data handling , analysis and report writing. • Mathematics and Statistics • Good communication and presentation skills • written and oral – scientists and non-scientists • IT literacy

  12. Attributes valued by Industry • A good honours degree - subject specific • pharmacology, physiology, biotechnology, genetics, biochemistry • Good, basic laboratory competence • Experience of working in a lab • lab project, summer vacation projects, industrial placements • Good communication skills • written and oral. • Motivation to work in industry • Desire to lead research – understanding of industry model • Flexibility • IT literacy • Excellent team working skills

  13. What do students want? • Employment • Using their science knowledge & background • To be valued for their contribution • Have the skills to compete in the job market • Transferable skills, teamworking • Understand the market • Avoid the “glass ceiling”

  14. How are we addressing these needs? • Maintaining the strong scientific base • High quality science graduates • Grounded, well-rounded and scientifically worldly • Questioning, analytical, empowered • Increasing graduate opportunities • Offering new or additional products • Specialised training opportunities • Business focus

  15. Win, win for students and University Students engaging with Industry Innovation IP Grant income Employability Business Skills Compete in marketplace Industry engaging with University

  16. Our goal • Make Aberdeen graduate a “recognised brand” • All our graduates will be: • Scientifically excellent • Scientifically current • Critical and analytical • Evidence based • Great communicators • Confident and enthusiastic • Commercially aware

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