The University and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution hold an annual lecture as part of the Advanced Technology Partnership (ATP).
The ATP involves active research projects in engineering and sponsored students in Ship Science, as well as Health Sciences and Management. A key element of the research is dissemination of the work through theses, papers and articles. This relationship is very valuable to the University and the annual lecture has become one of the most prestigious in the University calendar.
From the intensely competitive world of Formula One, the talk will take a look at the differences between success and failure, strategy, teamwork, managing complex challenges and leadership.
Date: 7 December 2016.
Venue: Turner Sims, Highfield campus.
Time: 18:00 – 19:00 (refreshments from 17:30).
Please book via Turner Sims’ website.
The Lecture will be delivered at 18:00 and chaired by Mr Ian Dunn, Chief Operating Officer at the University.
The Speaker:
Ross Brawn was born in Manchester in 1954. His early enthusiasm for all things mechanical led to a consuming hobby of building electric slot cars and racing them all over Britain and Europe. He undertook a Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in the early seventies, and, after he had finished, he took what he thought would be temporary diversion to work for Frank Williams F1 in 1976. Thirty seven years later he was still involved in a career in Motor Racing. He often mockingly commented that “one day I will get a proper job’.
