{"id":221,"date":"2023-07-05T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/?p=221"},"modified":"2023-07-10T17:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:27:44","slug":"uk-he-technicians-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2023\/07\/05\/uk-he-technicians-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"UK HE Technicians Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Technicians Summit (HETS23) took place yesterday and saw 500 technicians across the UK attend. This year the event took place at The Oculus, University of Warwick.<\/p>\n<p>The event was enjoyed by all those who attended. Offering a &#8216;Technical Talent Poster Showcase&#8217; with 50 posters submitted from institutions across the UK, an art exhibition of technicians at work by Joanna Scamp from Kent, the choice of attending 3 of 10 workshops being offered during the day, an informative and enjoyable keynote speech from Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam on the topic of Science and Leadership during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and the presentations of the Papin Prizes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-225\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/files\/2023\/07\/HETS23_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234\" style=\"width: 2399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/files\/2023\/07\/Joanna-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2399\" height=\"1600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Higher Education Technicians Summit (HETS) Conference. Photography by Alex Wilkinson Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Higher Education Technicians Summit (HETS23) took place yesterday and saw 500 technicians across the UK attend. This year the event took place at The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2023\/07\/05\/uk-he-technicians-summit\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78409,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[212657],"tags":[212657,241879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}