{"id":26,"date":"2020-10-29T12:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/?p=26"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:54:26","slug":"magma-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/magma-one-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGMA One Year On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">28th October marked the one year anniversary of me starting as MAGMA project manager. When starting last year I did not anticipate a global pandemic and our labs having to be closed for 6 months. However, I think it&#8217;s worth celebrating what has been achieved in the last year especially given the difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Appointed 2 permanent lecturers to the group. Dr Chris Harrison and Dr Jun Liu. All interviews done virtually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Appointed a new lab manager to the team Phillip Lugg-Widger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Secured \u00a3628k of research funding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Collaborated with 4 partners with more to come<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Purchased and received a gas retort furnace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Refurbishment has commenced on all of the labs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Website launched<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Twitter account launched with 73 followers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> -Participated in the &#8216;Museum After Dark&#8217; event at the National Museum in February demonstrating magnetics to families<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Electromagnetism activity badge for Guiding Cymru to be launched in November<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Cross cutting themes champion appointed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Inception evaluation of the operation completed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-External advisory board members selected and first meeting done<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This list is not exhaustive. There is plenty more we have achieved. Here&#8217;s to having a similar list next year and be celebrating it in better circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"28th October marked the one year anniversary of me starting as MAGMA project manager. When starting last year I did not anticipate a global pandemic and our labs having to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/magma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}