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Collaboration and Special Interest Groups

Julian Spence is interested in collaboration and technologies for innovation.

This includes  Special Interest Groups (SIGS) mechanism for sharing ideas and knowledge of interests (who is doing what or who would like to do what). 

In a department, school or faculty there are like to be topics, or parts of topics, that relate to general interest, and could form GIGs (General Interest Groups) ; the generalisation of SIGS to form GIGS is less clear but, for example, there could be ones like:-

• research - how to get it started and get interest (support); including whom to contact (business solutions?) and where to post and interest
• business engagement - experience of doing it and starting ; finding SMEs (small medium enterprises). Revalation of innovation to SMEs;
• Teaching; gathering together material and student interaction (this could include collaboration technologies and lecture delivery)

Possibly project or topic groups could be part of SIGs; with cross-posting encourages - as a topic might link, to great benefit, across departments and schools. (or would back links be better?)

And a list of such could be prefiex by SIG -- such as SIG_MA - for a material special interest groups; this could include more specialist groups - such as SEM (Scanning electron microscope) or Laser COnfocal Microscope or ElectroChemical processes.

Personal interest include the opportunities for development of advanced manufacturing processes and the development of their applications; particular interest in affordable and additive processes of high material and resource efficiency.

But still need to write some pages for some of these...

It is likely that there will be cross-links, arrising, - such as SEM and collaboration technologies or Image Processing and Microscopy. This will be , however, at the discretion of the interested -- possibly using search pages to identify such.