Lauren Sandford, Research Strategy Information Manager at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and outgoing Chair of the ARPS Committee 2025/26 presented the following Chair’s Report at the AGM on 26 February.
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Organising for Idle Hands
New ARPS Committee member, Peter Crowther, on combining his passions of trade union activism and 3D printing to help recruiting and organising in his branch at Birmingham City University.
I’m always after an excuse to 3D print something, you’ll struggle to find something broken in my house that hasn’t been repaired with some 3D printed widget, or a wall in my office without a 3D printed clock (another passion). When my branch at BCU moved to launch a formal ballot for industrial action in March it didn’t take me long to find a way to crowbar 3D printing into the mix.