This year’s Vice-Chancellor’s Awards celebrate exceptional contributions made by colleagues in the areas of collegiality, quality, internationalisation and sustainability. This short series of articles will share what makes the teams and individual winners special.
Individual award – Kathy Potter, Tissue Bank Manager, Faculty of Medicine (Cancer Sciences).
Kathy’s citation included the wording:
Kathy’s award is for Quality. Our research in Cancer Sciences depends on having access to excellent quality, banked human tissues, processed and curated to strict protocols and released as part of a strictly observed ethical framework. The Tissue Bank receives and processes hundreds of blood and tumour tissue samples a month.
We are proud of our Tissue Bank reputation; we can offer this as a resource to researchers and as a guaranteed repository for grant funders. As well as providing a high quality service for our own investigators, we are able to provide our quality assurance for a number of national tumour banking initiatives. We all trust and appreciate the quality of Kathy’s work.
On receiving the award Kathy said:
“It is a tremendous honour to receive this award. It is a privilege to work for the University of Southampton where quality work is part of the culture and is celebrated. I sincerely appreciate the support I have received from my colleagues, especially the past and present teams of technicians working in the Tissue Bank.”
Quality is one of the four underlying principles central to the success of our strategy and will underpin our strategic activities. Quality: always striving to achieve the highest quality in everything we do.
Read about the other 2016 Vice Chancellor’s Award winners:
Dr. Nicola Englyst: Associate Professor, Programme Leader for MSc Diabetes Best Practice, Lead for Mentoring Scheme
Ardel Richardson: Faculty based Accountant at the Winchester School of Art
The LifeLab Team: A unique educational project for secondary school pupils