Centre Director Shaun Gregory and the Management Team gathered Chief Investigators to workshop our vision, and strategies for improved communication, hear from the experts in research translation, participate in a collaborative (and competitive!) research project and develop strategies to support our HDR, ECR and MCR support. We also learned how we can all enhance the CBT reputation.
– From my perspective, it was a tremendously successful exercise that I hope will lead to many long-term benefits for our Centre, says Centre Director Professor Gregory.
On day 2, a collaborative research workshop brought together the CIs to develop a research proposal pitch which aligned with the new CBT Vision 2.0. The winning pitch was rewarded with project funds from both CBT and Faculty of Engineering. Thanks to Pia Wikstrom’s workshop, we were all newly aware of our preferred communication styles as a Lion/Producer, Owl/Processor, Horse/Relator or Monkey/Motivator. Learning from these communication styles, the collaborative groups were formed based on each CI’s communication style rather than research expertise. This approach encouraged diverse perspectives, fostered creativity amongst the teams, brought together CIs who, in many cases, had not had the opportunity to work together previously, and most importantly, placed ECRs, MCRs and L(ate)CRs together to brainstorm new ideas. A huge thank you to all the CIs who attended the workshop – your enthusiasm, motivation and engagement made the morning a great success.
Congratulations to the winning team
In the end, 4 highly impressive project pitches were delivered but only one team could emerge from the morning’s activity as victorious. Congratulations to the Pink Group for their proposal on targeted radiotherapy powered by supercharged electrons – well done Cameron Brown, Madusha Perera, Sean Powell, Max Lavaill and Nathalie Bock!
Snapshots from the retreat:
Attending the CBT Retreat 2024:
Yuantong Gu Travis Klein Yi-Chin Toh Clinton Fookes Ana Deletic Paige Little Zhiyong Li Jacqui McGovern Nathalie Bock Indira Prasadam Davide Fontanarosa Julie Mitchell Madhumitha Dhamodarasamy Pia Wikström Marie-Luise Wille Jacqueline Roots Devakar Epari Stephen Bradford Edmund Pickering Cameron Brown Nathan Subramaniam Peter Pivonka Professor Prashant Sonar Jonathan Roberts Andrew fielding Sinduja Suresh Maxence Lavaill Madusha Perera Ajay Pandey Larisa M Haupt Sean Powell and Naomi Paxton.