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Pint of Science 2023: Shining a Light on Quantum Materials

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Stephen Church

25 May 2023

Group PDRA Stephen Church gave a public talk on our research at the annual Pint of Science Festival. He spoke to a paying audience at The English Lounge about automation, disorder, and the benefits of nano-scale lasers for the world.

The Geometry of Expertise: Mapping R&D Capability in High Dimensions

The Geometry of Expertise: Mapping R&D Capability in High Dimensions

A university is between an R&D lab and an open-source project. Top-down levers fail. So I built a pipeline to map 1,900 researchers as a navigable knowledge space to turn 'corridor knowledge' into strategy.
01 May 2026 5 min read
Evaluating the Incomparable: How to Judge a Portfolio of One

Evaluating the Incomparable: How to Judge a Portfolio of One

When evaluating a "portfolio-of-one," the attempt to use standard metrics isn't rigour, it’s category error. From promotions panels to VC offices, our obsession with defensible metric counting often masks the very potential we claim to be seeking.
15 Apr 2026 5 min read
The Consultants Aren't the Problem

The Consultants Aren't the Problem

Universities don't have a consultant problem; they have a strategic capability vacuum. Academia excels at producing research, but our incentive structures actively punish structural, S-type innovation. It's time to stop outsourcing our strategy and start building S-type leadership capacity.
04 Apr 2026 4 min read
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