Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	EP/C513045/1
Title:	Additional Management Support for the MATCH IMRC
Principal Investigator:	Young, Professor T
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Department:	Information Systems & Computing
Organisation:	Brunel University London
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 January 2005	Ends:	30 June 2007	Value (£):	56,953
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Med.Instrument.Device& Equip.
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Healthcare
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This proposal is for a funding extension to assist with managing internal communications within the MATCH IMRC research programme through a 1/2 FTE event manager.The MATCH Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC) started on 3`d November 2003. It comprises a programme of research spread across the universities of Birmingham, Brunel, Kings College London, Nottingham and Ulster. Its purpose is to support the medical device sector with new methods for establishing clinical value; new methods for capturing user needs for early design and in-use upgrades; best practice research on production and decision-making processes and a forum to engage with regulators and seek better ways forward for all concerned.The accompanying case is basically that:MATCH is unusually cross-disciplinary, requiring contrinutions from engineers, statisticians, health economists, nurses, doctors and sociologists.MATCH involves five universities across the UKMATCH is also trying to serve an industrial community, across the UK. While bilateral engagement between specific universities and specific idustrialists is necessary, industry needs to meet the whole team from time to time.Connectedness is therefore vital to MATCH. MATCH's planned methods are working well, but are proving expensive - 117k has been committed to this type of exercise to date.MATCH uses conferences to attain such connectedness. While much can be done in isolation and through bilateral, or trilateral meetings, the whole team needs to get together periodically. The MATCH team across the 5 universities is around 30 people and increasingly, it is expected that industrialists will need to join these gatherings.A part-time event organiser will greatly assist this process. To date one of the part-time MATCH administrators has taken on this task, which adds significantly to her workload before and after each event.
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