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£15m
Smart Energy
Network
Demonstrator
Minister of State for
Climate Change and
Industry visits Keele
Claire Perry, Minister of
State for Climate Change
and Industry visited Keele
in July for a round table
discussion on energy and
environmental research.
T
he Minister spent time with
postgraduate students as part
of the event at Keele’s Sustainability
Hub, and found out more about some of
the current research projects underway in
environmental sciences at the University.
This was followed by a round table discussion
hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Trevor McMillan, exploring two of the
University’s key projects to underpin national
and international efforts to combat climate
change: the £15m Smart Energy Network
Demonstrator, the first “at scale” development
of its kind in Europe which will turn the
campus into a “living laboratory” where new
smart energy technologies and services can
be researched, developed and tested in a
real-world environment, and the HyDeploy
project, a ground-breaking programme to
demonstrate the use of blended hydrogen
in the national gas grid.
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Going Viral
in Higher
Education
I was, and still am, incredibly
shocked at the success of the video
and how far it reached. I even
had numerous friends telling me
that the video had spread to their
universities all around the country.
A recent film by Digital Ambassador Adam Mawardi
reached millions of people.
T
he Keele University Communications
Team are fortunate to employ a small
but very talented team of student digital
ambassadors who work with them to produce
unique, engaging and fun digital content.
The videos that the ambassadors produce
are usually done on a very quick turnaround,
with the aim of showcasing student life
at Keele or building the reputation of the
university as a unique and vibrant place
to study.
Earlier this year, Adam Mawardi – Keele
Digital Ambassador since 2015 – created
and had a starring role in a humorous video
about procrastination, handling everything
from the script-writing to final editing.
The video was a huge success, reaching
2.3m people in total, and over 10,000 people
sh