DAY IN THE LIFE
Stevenage BioCatalyst, STEVENAGE, UK
BIOGRAPHY Miranda is responsible for supporting the development of campus master planning and leads on tenancy matters. With 17 years’ experience in the biotech sector, she is also Chair of the UK Bio Incubator Forum, representing 24 bio incubators across the UK
Miranda Knaggs
Business Manager for Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst I am awake before my alarm goes off at 5.30am and fancy some blueberry pancakes before my two-hour daily train journey down to Stevenage. People often ask me how I have managed to do such a long commute for the last five years but it is a great opportunity to think about how to shape my morning/week and prepare my ‘to do list’ – this morning I look at our latest KPIs, case studies, success rates and areas for improvement in preparation for our next Board meeting. FEB
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TEAM INTERACTION
Despite getting up so early, I am the last person in the office (I think Dave, our operations manager, must sleep there). I have a quick catch up with Dave to see how he is getting on with planning for the building power shut down and installation of new air source heat pumps (something I have recently become an expert in!); then it’s a quick walk around the building before we have a
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UKTI film crew arrive to film some of our tenants’ successes on receiving Biomedical Catalyst funding. 11:00 is a team meeting to ensure various activities are on track – tenant lab and office fit-outs, GDPR,
DESPITE GE T TING UP SO E A R LY, I A M T H E L AST PERSON IN THE OFFICE new telephone system, comms updates and which events we are attending. The great thing about working in a team is the interaction and the feeling that we are all pulling in the same direction. I don’t have a lunch appointment, so I eat at my desk whilst chatting to
a leading provider of life science events–I provide some content ideas and suggest some speakers and am invited to join its steering group. This afternoon is a walk over to the new Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Centre, first to discuss campus wide collaborations between GSK, the Catapult and ourselves and then secondly to meet with the new Councillor of Herts County Council to discuss our next phase plans.
T H E LO W- D O W N
4pm and I’m off for a meeting at the Crick before I go over to Victoria for the BIA comms steering group meeting. We have a private room in a nice pub and I get a low-down on Brexit, JP Morgan week, a new comms guide and finance data. 9pm and I’m running for my last train home. I have a nice cup of tea on arrival and a quick chat with my better half before falling into bed! It’s been a good day… ■