Imaging Innovation Club

If you are interested in this community, you may also be interested in Digital Futures, the University’s interdisciplinary network operating across the whole range of the University’s digital research. Digital Futures brings together over 1400 researchers from different disciplines across all three of the University’s faculties into multidisciplinary communities to tackle important research problems, build critical mass in new and emerging research areas and to work with external stakeholders to support Greater Manchester’s ambitions as a leading digital city.

Past events

CaDiR / Innovation Clubs Showcase Event: 

The CaDiR / Innovation Clubs Showcase Event took place on 10th November 2021. Watch the video below for an overview of the Imaging Club and a summary of projects, facilities and potential collaboration opportunities between the club and Digital Futures themes.

Highlights from the February meeting: 

At the most recent meeting, we discussed:

  • The Membership of the community
  • Current Competitions and Funding Opportunities
  • RLP workshops that may be of interest

Members spent majority of time networking with colleagues to discuss collaboration opportunities.

Nikolay Mehandjiev highlighted the Data Visualisation Observatory on Campus and welcomes interested parties to get in touch

Slides presented at the meeting are available below.

 

Imaging and visualisation innovation community meeting (Monday 28 October)

About this event

We invited current users and interested researchers to a meeting to discuss the use of Imaging and Visualisation in research across the University. The idea of the community is to share experiences and common interests and discuss ways in which we can work together to better use available resources and generate a multi-disciplinary community that can collaborate internally and apply for research funding collectively. 

Over 40 people from across the university expressed an interest in the meeting representing all three faculties, which resulted in a broad spectrum of research being presented and discussed. This resulted in participants making new connections with colleagues whom they were unlikely to encounter in their day-to-day activities. The meeting began with a brief introduction to the Research Lifecycle Programme by Emma Finch, followed by presentations and discussion. It concluded with networking and further discussion over an extended lunch where researchers compared similarities and differences between the methodologies and requirements of imaging and visualisation in their research. 

We had a number of talks at the event, some of which can be found on our Podcast if you want to catch up (presentations that are available to listen to have the times in brackets).

  • Introduction to Research Lifecycle Programme and Innovation Communities (0:00 – 11:33)
    Emma Finch, Innovation Lead
  • X-ray Computed Tomography – Imaging Methods and Software (11:34 – 28:23) 
    Jakob Joergensen, School of Natural Science
  • Medical and Biological Image Analysis (28:24 – 44:55) 
    Timothy Cootes, School of Health Sciences
  • Pre-clinical Imaging in Biomedical Research (44:56 – 56:35) 
    Ingo Schiessl, School of Biological Sciences
  • Immersive visualisation and observation facilities at the Data Visualisation Observatory 
    Nikolay Mehandjiev, Alliance Manchester Business School 
  • Imaging Life on Earth  
    Phil Manning, School of Natural Sciences