Yorkshire constituency

YORKSHIRE

CONSTITUENCY

Established in October 2015, the Yorkshire constituency is currently formed by 17 members working in a wide range of disciplines at the Universities of Bradford, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York.

The Yorkshire Regional Board

Elisabet Batlle Rocafort, Director Jacobo Elíes-Gómez, Vice-Director Laia Ràfols Parellada, Secretary

The Yorkshire Working Group

Enric Arasanz Picher, Online manager Antonio De la Vega De León Irene Malo Estepa

SRUK members of the Yorkshire constituency

Plans 2021/2022

We are organising a social event on the 3rd of July in order to bring together new members to the constituency, especially focused on the students and researchers of the West Yorkshire universities. We are hoping to be able to organise a face-to-face “Beers in the pub” event, according to the “Road map out of COVID” of the UK government.

Events 2020/2021

The board of directors of the constituency was elected and renewed in July 2020, being all formed by members of the University of Bradford. This was followed by a virtual welcome event on the 4th October 2020 (“Welcome to Yorkshire”) to introduce the society to new members and to play some online games for the rest of the evening. This year, the constituencies of Yorkshire and London jointly organised the Christmas webinar Science and Cooking: Science, technique and history around bread & beer, chaired by Elisabet Batlle (Director of Yorkshire Constituency), and presented by Patricia Jurado (researcher on Science & Cooking and Teaching fellow at Harvard University) and David Santamaria (Research & Development Specialist technician at Mahou). They delivered an amazing presentation about the ancient techniques developed to produce bread and beer, followed up by a Q&A time where they answered attendees’ questions. The Constituency also participated in the series Alternatives to Academia, alongside the constituencies of Oxford, Cambridge and Yorkshire. Within this series, we have organised three different webinars: A conversation with entrepreneurs, an event about Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP), and a “Patents and Scientific Advocacy” webinar. More sessions are being planned as part of the series. On the 17th of December, SRUK Yorkshire participated in a virtual meeting with the newly established Spanish consulate in Manchester, alongside the directors of the other constituencies under its demarcation. The meeting comprised a presentation of both SRUK and the functions of the consulate and it can be found in the Spanish Manchester consulate’s Youtube channel. In collaboration with the SRUK Northwest & Cambridge constituencies and the Instituto Cervantes (IC) Manchester & Leeds, we brought back the CineScience series with the online documentary “La mujer que soñaba con los números” (Sintregua productions). This documentary was available on the IC Youtube channel during a week prior to the debate, which took place on the 15th of April 2021. We were honoured with the precious collaboration of Mirella R. Abrisqueta, the director of the documentary, and the Spanish mathematicians and lecturers Marta Macho, Conchita Martínez and Raquel Villacampa. In addition, SRUK Yorkshire created an SRUK Instagram channel (@srukceru) and committee. This is a new SRUK initiative for which we are seeking for new members to join and promote this channel in the following year. This year we also said farewell to Antonio De La Vega, former SRUK secretary, who has moved back to Spain. We want to truly thank Antonio for his contribution to the society. Best of luck, Antonio!

DELEGACIÓN DE YORKSHIRE

Este año la delegación de Yorkshire ha renovado su directiva local y ha ampliado su grupo de trabajo, lo cual ha permitido que se forme un grupo activo y dinámico, con muy buen ánimo para la organización de distintos eventos e iniciativas. Aunque la situación vivida debido a la pandemia ha complicado la búsqueda de nuevos miembros para unirse al grupo de trabajo, hemos seguido los planes que teníamos tanto a nivel local como nacional y estamos deseando poder empezar a organizar eventos presenciales de cara al próximo curso.