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 The IKT is pleased to announce that two new bloggers have joined the IKT Blog site http://www.iktblog.com.

Allen Alexander  MInstKT

"I am the Head of Operations for Research & Knowledge Transfer at the University of Exeter.  My role has been to bring together and develop under one service capability the offices for Enterprise Development, Research Development and Knowledge Transfer.  Prior to this I established the Knowledge Transfer Office and grew its portfolio of project based work from around £200k to over £4M in around 2 years.  My work in the University administration departments takes up 4 days per week and I have research interests within the University of Exeter Business School where I am researching a PhD focusing on Knowledge Transfer between HE and businesses along with teaching project & programme management.  Before taking this administrative buy-out I worked within the School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics as a lecturer in engineering management, teaching project and programme management and quality management.  I am a Civil Engineer by first discipline and ran an extensive portfolio of water industry infrastructure projects for 10 years prior to returning to HE at Exeter to gain an MSc in Engineering Management."

Suneel Kunamaneni  AMinstKT

Dr. Suneel Kunamaneni currently works as a technology transfer fellow with the University of Leeds and is an expert in Materials technologies ranging from processing personal care products to formulating automotive plastics. Prior, to his current role he worked as a research scientist with GE plastics. Dr Kunamaneni has a research masters in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of science and a  Ph.D in polymer physics from the University of Leeds. Dr Kunamaneni works with several universities in the UK, Europe and the US and collaborates with several European plastic industries in his current role. He wants to develop best practices in providing technological inputs to the plastics industry that will create an environmental friendly image of plastics.

To read these new blogs, please visit http://www.iktblog.com.

For more information on the IKT Blog or the IKT, please contact Russ Hepworth-Sawyer on 07595 217910 or rhs@ikt.org.uk.