Hasan Yilmaztekin, our co-founder and member, has been awarded a Researcher-Led Initiative award

Hasan Yilmaztekin, our co-founder and member, has been awarded a Researcher-Led Initiative award by the University of Exeter.

The award has been given to organise our first annual IP workshop in June. This is the first award that has been granted to our initiative. The collaborative nature of our IP workshop was particularly praised by the judging panel.

Hasan commented on his achievement "I applied for this award in order to raise funding to organise events for our brainchild, the New IP Lawyers Network. This Network was founded under the auspices of the School of Law and its research centre called the SCuLE (Science Culture and the Law). This network is the first attempt to create a hub for new generation lawyers, as well as non-lawyers, who share different interests spanning IP, culture, science, creativity and the law. We would like to help new generation researchers and practitioners interested in IP form a network for young creative brains.

I say ‘our’ because my fellow PhD colleague, Mathilde Pavis, and I dreamed it up one cloudy Exeter afternoon last autumn. While setting up the Network, we envisioned a society around which academic and non-academic faces could get together as the members of a big family to participate in the arena of clashing ideas and spark something new. Being granted a researcher-led initiative award for our newly-born project shows that we are on the right path. This award also demonstrates that the University of Exeter is supportive of this kind of academic initiative. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the judges who were in charge of granting the award, and the members of the School of Law, who supported and allowed us to establish the Network. Amongst them, I would particularly like to give thanks to my supervisor Charlotte Waelde, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, for her endless encouragement and support in all our academic endeavours."

The Researcher Led Initiative awards are intended to enable postgraduate research students and early career research staff research staff to be creative, proactive, and empowered, through the process of initiating, designing, managing, and delivering new professional development activities for their peers that will develop the skills and experience needed to progress their careers. The awards support short-term, well-defined initiatives that develop and deliver transferable skills training experiences and/or resources to the applicants’ peers across departments. Collaborative applications are encouraged.

For the full list of awards please visit here.

For the note about the achievement on the University of Exeter, School of Law's website please visit here.