The Connected Everything II (CEII) Network Plus coordinates a “Network of Networks” which will accelerate multi-disciplinary collaboration, foster new collaborations between industry and academia and tackle emerging challenges which will underpin the UK academic community’s research in support of people, technologies, products and systems for digital manufacturing.
The initial key agreed areas for joint work are:
- Supporting networks to be more representative and share good examples of embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Coordinating professional and best practice development for managers and coordinators involved in Networks
- Share best practice on delivery of key activities across the networks especially for Early Career Researchers (see below for an example).
The Network of Networks meets informally on approx. 6 monthly basis to progress these area of mutual support. There is an MS Team site to continually share information amongst the networks. The Network of Networks currently includes the following organisations:
| Network | Link |
|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigations for Scientific Discovery (AI3SD Network+) | https://www.ai3sd.org/ |
| Circular Economy Network+ in Transportation Systems (CENTS) | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/research/materials/smam/cents/about |
| CLIRPath-AI | https://clirpath-ai.org/ |
| Connected Everything II Network Plus | https://connectedeverything.ac.uk/ |
| Design for Additive Manufacturing Network | https://www.designforam.ac.uk/ |
| Discribe, the Digital Security by Design Social Science Hub+ | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV003666%2F1 |
| Digital Catapult | https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/ |
| Digitalised Surface Manufacturing: Towards “World’s Best” Processes Network+ | https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/S036180/1 |
| Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) | https://www.deas.ac.uk/ |
| eFutures2 | https://efutures2.com/ |
| Emergence – Tackling Frailty – Facilitating the Emergence of Healthcare Robots from Labs into Service | https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/W000741/1 |
| Energy Harvesting Network | http://eh-network.org/ |
| E-Textiles Network | https://e-textiles-network.com/ |
| High Value Manufacturing Catapult | https://hvm.catapult.org.uk/ |
| Human Data Interaction | https://hdi-network.org/ |
| InterAct network (ESRC) – social sciences support for innovation of digital technologies | https://interact-hub.org/ |
| Internet of Food Things | https://www.foodchain.ac.uk/ |
| KTN | https://ktn-uk.org/ |
| Metamaterials Network | https://metamaterials.network/ |
| National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub (CE-Hub) | https://ce-hub.org/ |
| Next Generation Rehabilitation Technologies | https://www.rehabtechnologies.net/ |
| PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity | https://petras-iot.org/ |
| REPHRAIN – National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online | https://www.rephrain.ac.uk/ |
| Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities – RBOC N+ | https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X009947/1 |
| SPRITE+ | https://spritehub.org/ |
| Transforming Construction Network Plus | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/about-us/transforming-construction-network-plus |
| UK Acoustics Network | https://acoustics.ac.uk/ |
| UK Manufacturing Symbiosis Network+ (UKMSN+) | https://www.ukmsn.ac.uk/ |
| UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) | https://www.tas.ac.uk/ |
| INCLUsive Digital Economy Network+ (INCLUDE+) | https://includeplus.org/ |
Please contact Sarah Afriyie (sarah.afriyie@nottingham.ac.uk) if you would like your network to be added.
Outputs created by the Network of Networks
Learning from Early Career Researcher survey in Spring 2021
A survey developed by the SPRITE+ network and includes responses from Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in the SPRITE+, eFutures and Connected Everything networks has helped shape our activities for ECRs. Please read the findings from the survey here
Learning from the Network of Networks Community Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Survey 2021
The Networks came together over the summer of 2021 and over 260 people completed our survey so we can understand more about our community and how we can be more supportive, particularly as Covid restrictions ease. This is the summary and findings presented at the Network of Networks meeting in October 2021.
As a result of analysing the survey responses a paper has been written and accepted by Inter-Noise 2022. This link will take you to the paper.
Network Community Survey 2022
This is now available for all network members to respond to. Please take 10 minutes to complete this year’s survey so we can all continually learn. Our 2021 survey has been incredibly helpful in how we have planned network activities so they are as accessible as possible for everyone
Network Impact
A discussion of the Network of Networks led to this summary document being created in November 2021. We hope this will help other networks consider their impact more widely than the typical outputs often measured.
Guide for Network Managers
For over 12 months a small group of network managers came together to share their learning and co-create a guide for managing networks based on their experience. The online guide was created by Dr Samantha Kanza and is hosted at Southampton University. Use this link to access the guide: network-mgmt.ai3sd.org/
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