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<\/a>Images taken from our “introduce yourself” channel (and from publicity pages for the speakers)<\/p><\/div>\n
Thanks to Saggezza, we held a social the night before in gather.town just for the poster presenters, sponsors and helpers. This had random quiz teams and some silly activities which helped students get to know a few more people before the day.<\/p>\n
Our supporters: <\/strong>The event wouldn’t be possible without support from various employers, companies and charities<\/a>.<\/p>\n The local team in Lancaster and at the BCS have been superb in helping our 2021 event run smoothly, so we also have to thank<\/p>\n Lancaster Duck, designed by Lucy Hunt<\/p><\/div>\n The day was started off by a keynote from Professor Dame Sue Black, who’s a world renowned forensic anthropologist. Sue spoke about her work with imaging and the identification of people from their hands: fascinating stuff, and really impactful work. This talk was presented live on Teams.<\/p>\n As we were online this year we decided to have the rest of talks shared online in advance to allow attendees flexibility in managing their day. This has the advantage that the talks are archived, too! We had live q&a in our Discord server on the day to provide real-time interaction for attendees. The three main talks were:<\/p>\n The skills and careers buffet is a new idea for us: normally we have four talks as we are constrained by time and rooms. As we are online we decided to take advantage of the flexibility and offer a set of talks on the loose theme of skills and careers. These are all shorter talks (5-15 minutes) and attendees can pick and choose which ones they want to watch.<\/p>\n To conclude with, we held a panel where students are able to ask any questions they like. This was live on Teams again, with four panelists (Miriam Sturdee of Lancaster University, Sarah Foxley of STFC, Safia Barikzai of London South Bank University and Anna Gautier, a PhD student from Oxford University). Lucy Hunt in the chair fielded the questions and kept conversation flowing.<\/p>\n During the breaks we encouraged attendees to visit the employer stands, talk to poster presenters, and mingle – Discord as a platform really helps with this as it puts conversations rather than videos in the foreground. We also encouraged attendees to take time to look after themselves, and provided a short Pilates video https:\/\/youtu.be\/i37RfBAegek<\/a> from Rachel Hubbard, designed to help people who’re spending a lot of time at the computer.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Talks and panel<\/h2>\n
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