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AppleTree Seedling Growing Nicely AppleTree Healthy Lifestyle Consultancy, a young Tayside business run by Dr Laura Stewart who retired from the NHS last summer, has been set up to deliver healthy lifestyle initiatives at a corporate level. As part of her learning curve in business, Laura took part in the Coca-Cola 5by20 fast track programme in November 2018. Since completing the programme, AppleTree has been steadily gaining commissions on work around healthy lifestyle. AppleTree’s most significant project to date has been commissioned by NHS Health Scotland to write a 12 week online adult weight management programme for NHS Inform. Although working as a sole trader, Laura has a network of specialists she can call on as required on a sessional basis. Presently on the NHS Health Scotland project, AppleTree has professional input from a clinical psychologist, a social researcher and a data analysist. This team has undertaken engagement with the potential client group, first through a survey and then follow-up focus groups in locations across Scotland. The information collected will be the basis for the content of the online programme. The web-based adult weight management programme is expected to go live on www.nhsinform.scot this October.
STAR-Dundee looks to grow team to support new spacecraft standard For the past decade, aerospace engineering company STARDundee has been leading the development of the next generation of spacecraft onboard networking technology: SpaceFibre. To support this rapid adoption of SpaceFibre, STAR-Dundee are looking to grow its team in Dundee. SpaceFibre is a high-performance, high-reliability, high-availability network technology for use onboard spacecraft. It provides data signalling rates of 6.25 Gbit/s in current flight technology, while its unique multi-laning features allow up to 16 lanes to be combined into a single link, giving correspondingly higher data rates. SpaceFibre offers much more than high data rates, however and is capable of detecting, isolating and recovering from faults in the link where they occur, preventing faults from propagating around the spacecraft network.
STAR-Dundee’s efforts in developing SpaceFibre were recently rewarded with the publication
Other work AppleTree is currently involved in includes training for NHS staff in November and writing an evidence review on childhood obesity for the British Dietetic Association. Laura recently wrote a piece on adult weight management on behalf of the British Dietetic Association for The Guardian. www.appletreeconsultancy.com
Thorntons highlights ‘clear strategy for growth’ Thorntons laid down its first roots in Dundee almost 200 years ago when Sir Thomas Thornton started the legal practice. Now, as one of Scotland’s largest full service law firms, it’s one of the city’s true success stories. The firm was first established in 1857, and Thorntons has since grown to more than 460 members of staff with 56 Partners and a network of 14 offices across Scotland. Through steady expansion of office locations, the firm now boasts a broad network of offices covering Dundee, Edinburgh, Fife, Angus and Perth as well as brand new premises in Glasgow city centre. This footprint allows the firm to deliver specialist advice where clients need it. Craig Nicol, Managing Partner at Thorntons, said: “Since our humble beginnings, we’ve always maintained a clear strategy for growth. And our commitment to long-term investment through mergers and acquisitions has brought the firm to where it is today. “We continually seek to develop our client service and provide our clients across all our locations with a full service offering and Dundee remains at the heart of our business.”
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of the SpaceFibre standard by the European Space Agency’s standardisation body. STAR-Dundee’s CTO, Steve Parkes, wrote the SpaceFibre standard with input from international spacecraft engineers, while STAR-Dundee developed the first SpaceFibre interfaces and routing switches, and was the first to demonstrate these in a radiation tolerant flight chip. SpaceFibre has been, and is being, designed into flight chips, on-board equipment and space missions across the world including Europe, USA, Russia and Japan. To support this rapid adoption of SpaceFibre, STAR-Dundee is looking to recruit for its Dundee office and would like to hear from experienced Electronic Engineers, PCB Designers and Software Engineers who would enjoy working for an employee owned space company.
