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Meet Charlotte Fox, Innovation and Intellectual Property Lead at The Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and a learner on our Artificial Intelligence: Foundations for Practice and Research programme. We caught up with Charlotte to hear why she decided to explore AI, what she took away from the course, and how she hopes to apply her learning to […]

I grew up in the care system in County Durham. I say that plainly now, but for a long time I said it quietly, if at all. There is still a part of the world that hears “care leaver” and adjusts its expectations downward. I spent a long time adjusting mine upward to compensate.  What […]

TechUP newsletters had been landing in my inbox for a long time, but as a single mother to my two gorgeous children, my focus was on establishing our lives as a unit of three, with anything that wasn’t essential, like career development taking a backseat.  I currently lead the Computer Science department for a large […]

A wonderful opportunity dropped into the TechUP mailbox back in April of this year. It was an invitation from Dr Laura Di Chiacchio to join the Franco-British Data Society and Aston University at the French Embassy in Kensington to discuss “AI Trust and Inclusion”. Two members of our team were available to attend – Addy Shah and Dr Paula Beer. The event was to be held at the beautiful French Embassy in Kensington Palace […]

Blog by Dr Paula Beer, Educational Consultant, Academic and TechUP Tutor. In the previous blog posts I spoke about resources for AI & ML,  Data Science & Analytics, Cybersecurity and Software Development….now it’s the turn of the fifth -and last- essential skill in tech I’ll be talking about: Cloud Computing. Skill 5: Cloud Computing Cloud computing […]

Blog by Dr Paula Beer, Educational Consultant, Academic and TechUP Tutor. In the previous blog posts I spoke about resources for AI & ML,  Data Science & Analytics and Cybersecurity….now it’s the turn of Software Development. Skill Four: Software Development Like many areas of IT careers, there are many interrelated and overlapping terms when it comes […]