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Leadership Accelerator - Registration Deadline 13th December!

Places on RESILIENCE's unique Leadership Accelerator programme are free whilst available, but you must REGISTER BY 13th DECEMBER to secure your place in the early 2025 cohort!

29 November 2024
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RESILIENCE in Scotland - come and meet the team, Glasgow Dec 5th

Based in Scotland and interested in finding out more about RESILIENCE? BOOK NOW to meet the team on 5th December at the Technology and Innovation Centre in Glasgow for discussion, networking and interactive demonstrations.

18 October 2024
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Practical Skills for Upstream Bioprocessing

Kick-start your professional development with hands-on practical sessions and guest speaker slots from expert industry speakers from ChemoMetec, Cytiva and Nova Biomedical.

10 December 2024
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Fundamentals of GMP and Quality

GMP (good manufacturing practice) is the important element of Quality Management to ensure medicines manufactured are of highest quality that meets the required regulatory standards. This two-day, in person course will equip you with the fundamentals you need to thrive in a quality-oriented, GMP manufacturing environment.

10 December 2026



The RESILIENCE Medicines Manufacturing Skills Centre of Excellence is a partnership between the University of BirminghamUniversity College London,Heriot-Watt University, Teesside University and Britest Limited.

The Centre brings together leading regional training providers to support the UK life sciences workforce by delivering high quality training and outreach, spanning the entire careers pipeline for industry, academia, and the NHS.

Adopting a co-ordinated and scalable approach to skills development, the Centre comprises a network of academic delivery partners with an unrivalled track record for delivering training for the medicines manufacturing community.

Drawing on our existing infrastructure for rapid operationalisation, we are building onto them new approaches such as:

  • Co-created, co-branded core materials for training and outreach that are readily scalable across the UK.

  • Digital training approaches including cutting edge virtual reality and mixed reality to enable standardisation and consistency across our network.

  • Accelerator programmes for T-level students, undergraduate placement students, graduates and CPD trainees, and apprenticeship cohort activities, supporting all career entry points.

The image contains logos and text indicating that the RESILIENCE project is funded by the Office for Life Sciences, within the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and managed through Innovate UK.


Meet the Team

An end to end network connecting UK schools, colleges, and industry

Students can benefit from the RESILIENCE Centre through free resources to inspire a future generation of medicine makers. RESILIENCE aims to provide teaching and outreach materials to 150 schools, colleges and universities for free, enabling them to become affiliate members of the RESILIENCE network, as well as nurturing the talent pipeline for the medicines manufacturing sector through education, mentoring and outreach.

What we do

What we do

RESILIENCE brings together the UK's leading regional training providers in Medicines Manufacturing Skills to co-create core materials for training and outreach that are readily scalable across the UK, harness cutting edge VR and mixed reality for standardisation and consistency across our network, and provide accelerator programmes for students supporting all career entry points.

Mission

Our Mission

RESILIENCE will be a scalable, end-to-end talent development network for the UK medicines manufacturing sector, working with the sector to address current and future workforce needs. Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion we will increase the talent pipeline, build resilience and ensure sustainable workforce growth. Adopting the latest digital training technologies, we will create a digitally competent workforce, supporting digital transformation and net zero goals.

Values

Our name reflects our values and offering

RESILIENCE exists to foster resilience in the future workforce and pharmaceutical industry in the UK. We are committed to excellence in our training, to overcoming barriers to access, to embedded equality, diversity and inclusion in all our outreach, training, coaching and partner engagement, and to providing leadership in Digital Transformation and Net Zero.

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