Alliances for Research Challenges: a unique opportunity for Scottish Research Collaboration3/4/2024 Kalliopi Mavromati is a researcher with a background in psychology who is currently working with the Scottish Funding Council’s Brain Health Alliance for Research Challenges (ARC). In this short blog she introduces the ARCs and talks about her experiences as a guest at the launch of another ARC themed around quantum technologies.
Envisioning a creative and dynamic researcher community, the ARCs aim to support Early Career Researchers (ECRs) development through lectures and workshops, alongside unique opportunities. ARCs encourage applicants to establish new collaborations that involves ECRs and considers Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Diverse expertise is encouraged to drive research creativity through interdisciplinary collaboration. The ARCs further aim to bridge the gap between academic output and tangible impact. This is achieved through collaboration with Scottish public institutions, including various local councils. Ultimately, projects supported by the ARC through seed funding and other opportunities are anticipated to translate academic observations into actionable output that can directly inform policy and impact current applications.
Indeed, the Quantum ARC’s organisers and invited speakers eloquently demonstrated how someone with my background and familiarity with quantum could substantially contribute to the Quantum ARC’s commitment to stimulate new solutions that are inclusive, sustainable, and ethical by design. The ARC’s vision for a quantum society built on quantum science clearly illustrated to me the need for cross-discipline collaboration to support application-driven research. The importance of public outreach to not only promote but also inform research also struck me as tremendously relevant to brain health research.
For me, a key takeaway from this experience was the importance of bridging communication gaps between disciplines to realise novel ideas that truly have the potential to transform practice. If there’s one message you take away from this blog post, let it be that no matter your background as a researcher, the ARCs invite your drive and expertise to transform brain health, energy, food, and quantum practice.
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