This year’s Vice-Chancellor’s Awards celebrate our colleagues exceptional contributions in the areas of collegiality, quality, internationalisation and sustainability. This short series of articles will share what makes the teams and individual winners special.
Team award – The LifeLab Team.
LifeLab is a highly innovative and unique educational project for secondary school pupils, which focuses on health and lifestyle. In an interactive and highly engaging format, local schoolchildren learn first-hand the science behind the facts about diet and lifestyle. Since opening in October 2013 almost 4,000 students have participated in the programme. The team is inspiring the next generation of young adults to consider coming to Southampton to study Medicine.
Kathryn Woods-Townsend, LifeLab Programme Manager commented:
“At the core of LifeLab’s success is the collaboration amongst the team. This flagship project for the University has been possible due to the partnership between the founders, epitomising the collegiality described in the University’s core principles.
“Nearly 10 years ago, the LifeLab concept at the University was developed as a collaboration by academic colleagues from the Faculty of Medicine (Human Development and Health Academic Unit), the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences (Southampton Education School), the Maths and Science Learning Centre and the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit.
“Consistently the LifeLab team has shown that through strong partnerships, projects such as this can flourish.”
Click here to find out more about LifeLab.
STOP PRESS…
The LifeLab team were part of the award winning stand at the New Forest Show hosted by Wessex Medical Research featuring teams from Faculty of Medicine, Biological Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences and the hospital.
Collegiality is one of the four principles central to the success of our strategy and will underpin our strategic activities. Collegiality: One team working, planning and delivering together, toward our shared vision.
The next article in this series will appear next week.