Solution Canvas in the community

We at Solution Canvas strongly believe in supporting our local community in any way that we can. It is for this reason that we are proud to be Educational Sponsors of the Kings Theatre in Glasgow. Our contributions help to ensure that children in the community have the opportunity to participate in shows and other activities in the Kings that would otherwise be unavailable to them.

We are also proud to have been official sponsors of the Microsoft Challenger team race to help the NSPCC and Children 1st charities. The non-stop three and a half day challenge saw a team of Microsoft volunteers navigating their way around a number of locations on the Isle of Arran.

Solution Canvas supported the attendance of Julie Sullivan at the Annual Presentations by Britain’s Top Early-Stage Researchers in Science, Engineering Medicine and Technology at the House of Commons on the 19th of March 2007.

This event is the grand-finale to the annual UK Science and Engineering Week celebrating UK scientific endeavour, prowess and achievement, and facilitates the presentation and debate of new scientific research not only among researchers, but with other non-expert groups such as poster judges and MPs.

Julie is a Ph D. student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde working in Fluid Mechanics, specifically ‘Thin-Film Flows Subject to Air Shear’. Of the hundreds of applications for places received, Julie was selected to present a scientific poster at the Lunchtime Reception.

“This event was a unique opportunity to meet researchers in other fields, not just of mathematics, but of many branches of science, and to see what direction research is taking in the UK. Although funding is often available for presentations at typical scientific conferences academic research is still, in places, underfunded. If we are to achieve the proposed knowledge based economy it is vital that research is given the funding necessary to allow the flexibility and freedom to pursue innovative ideas and explore new opportunities. Solution Canvas recognises the importance of supporting research and generously funded my trip to the House of Commons.”

You can view Julie's poster here (PDF format, 333KB). For more information contact Juile at rs.jsul@maths.strath.ac.uk