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Meet Ottoline Leyser, a plant biologist who moved into one of the UK’s most important jobs in research policy: Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation.
As she comes to the end of her five-year tenure, she reflects on both her own career and the importance of diverse career journeys to the research and innovation system.
“One of the things I’m particularly keen to champion is promoting career path diversity. You inherently take skills and understanding and know-how with you, so that knowledge adaptation and diffusion is just automatically catalysed, and that’s what really drives progress.”
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Meet Ottoline Leyser, a plant biologist who moved into one of the UK’s most important jobs in research policy: Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation.
As she comes to the end of her five-year tenure, she reflects on both her own career and the importance of diverse career journeys to the research and innovation system.
“One of the things I’m particularly keen to champion is promoting career path diversity. You inherently take skills and understanding and know-how with you, so that knowledge adaptation and diffusion is just automatically catalysed, and that’s what really drives progress.”
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We are UK Research and Innovation, the UK's largest public funder of research and innovation. If you're a UK tax payer, your contributions help fund the work we showcase on our channel. And if you liked this video, follow us on these channels:
Medium: medium.com/@UKRI
Instagram: instagram.com/weareukri
Facebook: facebook.com/weareUKRI
YouTube: youtube.com/c/UKResearchandInnovation
Or sign up for our weekly newsletter public.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKRI/subscriber/new?topic_id=UKRI_newsletter
