A Flexible Model for Training Delivery
The in-depth experience of the trainers across RESILIENCE’s core partners trainers and our onboarded Digital Training Fellows make the Centre of Excellence flexible and agile with respect to emerging training needs, and to ways of delivering training that addresses those needs, as the medicines manufacturing sector adopts more digitalisation and automation. By coordinating between the Digital Training Fellows and the Trainer Forum we are building resilience across the Centre of Excellence network.
In Person
All the network academic partners access state-of-the-art teaching and learning spaces to conduct training courses.
The University of Birmingham contains flexible teaching spaces, labs that can accommodate eighty trainees at a time for hands-on processes including cell/molecular analytics, and witht he advent of the Birmingham Health Innovation Campus is set to become a world leading healthcare technologies hub.
UCL is making extensive facilities made available to the project including a bioprocess pilot plant, ultra-scaledown instruments, automation, single-use facility, and analytical equipment. The new UCL East campus, a £500m investment in new training labs and outreach facilities is directly supporting Centre of Excellence activities.
The Teesside National Horizons Centre is a Centre of Excellence for the global biosciences and healthcare sector, housing teaching laboratories, a state-of-the-art Waters bioanalytical laboratory, cell culture bioprocessing facilities, VR training room and capabilities for bioinformatics, comparative genomics and large multi-dimensional data handling.
Heriot-Watt’s IBioIC FlexBIO Flexible Scale-Up Facility enables skills training in bioprocessing to support large scale (bio)pharma, vaccines, viral vector, CGT therapy industrial scale production.
Virtual Reality
The Centre is pioneering VR/MR for skills development. The University of Birmingham is in the vanguard of the use of immersive technology hardware and software to make virtual reality training simulations for medicines manufacturers and educational institutions, whilst the Teesside National Horizons Centre includes a VR training room facility.
VR will be critical to accelerate workforce growth as new medicines such as gene therapies, cellular therapies and vaccines become increasingly adopted in healthcare.
Online Live
Live, online synchronous learning lets trainers and trainees work together as a community, just as they would in a face-to-face in-class session, but helps overcome challenges of travel time and cost, availability, and waste consumables like extraneous handouts.
Where it fits the bill, live, online training can be a great solution, not just saving costs for companies and their employees, but opening up the possibility of specialis, niche courses running where they may not previously have been otherwise viable.
Digital Apps
Apps and similar delivery tools for asynchronous learning share several of the flexibility benefits of live, online training, but also allow students to learn at their own pace and work around the demands of their job and/or family life. Moreover, digitalisation is at the heart of a great deal of current innovation in teh pharma sector. For instance, the Teesside National Horizons Centre provides capabilities for bioinformatics, comparative genomics and large multi-dimensional data handling as part of its capabilities.