Equipment Sharing
Our equipment sharing network meets on a termly basis, to share knowledge and explore common issues. Recent meetings have discussed sharing platforms and how participants are responding to challenges at their universities.
Please email Rosie Niven for further information.
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Research technology professionals – adding value to research teams
When research technology professionals work with your team it makes for ‘happy researchers’ delegates at a SES event heard last month.
![A network server specialist programmes a computer server in the Data Center at University College London. credit: Alejandro Walter Salinas Lopez](https://www.ses.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DSC00616-1-e1645704586789-660x380.jpg)
Research technology professionals: the hidden roles behind research success
Research Technology Professionals play a crucial role in achieving high-quality research outputs. Supporting their career progression benefits the whole research community.
![A researcher snaps a photograph of the recently assembled LUX-ZEPLIN xenon detector in the Surface Assembly Lab cleanroom at Sanford Underground Research Facility on July 26, 2019. Photo by Nick Hubbard.](https://www.ses.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Imperial-particles-660x380.jpg)
SES members to receive £24m for particle physics research
Six SES members to receive a share of a £60m investment, which supports the next generation of particle physicists.
![A lab at UCL where LEAF was developed. Alejandro Walter Salinas Lopez ©2019 UCL. ISD Digital Media. University College London. All rights reserved.](https://www.ses.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/W9A7292.jpg)
Making laboratories greener with LEAF
Historically, universities have lacked guidance on how to make labs more sustainable. Now SES members are using the LEAF framework to build sustainability into day-to-day lab usage.
![A woman pictured using the UCL / Ventura developed CPAP breathing aid (credit: James Tye / UCL)](https://www.ses.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CPAP-e1589815010718-660x380.jpg)
Using the equipment sharing database to tackle COVID-19
University equipment sharing databases were a response to new grant funding requirements, but Chris Wilkinson reports that the University of Cambridge’s database is taking on added significance in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SES universities take leading role in coronavirus research
Researchers from across Science and Engineering South (SES) member institutions have joined the international response to the coronavirus in an effort to develop treatments, vaccinations and protect communities.