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PolicyNet events
February 2013
Professor Sir John Beddington reflects on his time as government CSA
Chaired by Professor Sir Bill Wakeham FREng, Senior Vice President, Royal Academy of Engineering
Professor Sir John Beddington CMG HonFREng FRS FRSE, Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA)
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December 2012
Influencing policy
development: what role for scientists and engineers?
Chaired by Dr Martyn Thomas CBE FREng, Royal
Academy of Engineering Vice President for External
Affairs
Birgitte Andersen, Director, Big Innovation
Centre
Tony Lodge, Research Fellow, Centre for
Policy Studies
Jill Rutter, Programme Director, Institute
for Government
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June 2012
What can UK policy makers
learn from developing countries that are heavily
investing in science and engineering?
Chaired by Shane McHugh, Head of International Activities, The Royal Academy of Engineering
Frazer Macdonald, Head of China, Far East and
Africa, International Knowledge and Innovation Unit,
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Sam Myers, Counsellor, Science and Innovation
at the British Embassy in Beijing
November 2011
Nomination or
election? Lords reform and science and engineering
representation
Chaired by Dr Chris Tyler, Executive
Director, Centre for Science & Policy, University of
Cambridge
Professor Vernon Bogdanor, Research
Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History,
King’s College London
Andrew Miller MP, Chair of the
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
July 2011
Can science and engineering set the
standard for social mobility in the professions?
Chaired by Philip Greenish, Chief Executive of the
Royal Academy of Engineering
Dr Rhys Morgan, Head of
Secretariat for E4E Education for Engineering
Dr
William Haydock, Lead Researcher on Widening
Participation and Access at the Russell Group
April
2011
How has the new media affected the quality of
the science conversation?
Chaired by Jane Sutton,
Communications Manager of the Royal Academy of
Engineering
Andrew Cohen, Head of BBC Science
Michael Kenward, Editor of New Scientist
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February 2011
Science and engineering in
the House
Chaired by Imran Khan, Director of the
Campaign for Science and Engineering
Andrew Miller
MP, Chair of the House of Commons Science and
Technology Committee
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PolicyNet events in 2010
December 2010
The new knowledge economy –
making the best of the research base
Chaired by Fiona Fox, Director, Science
Media Centre
Professor Brian
Collins FREng, Chief Scientific Advisor to the
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and
the Department for Transport
Professor Sir Alan
Wilson FBA FRS, Professor of Urban and Regional
Systems, Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis at
University College London
Professor Sir Richard
Friend FREng FRS, Professor of Physics at the
University of Cambridge and Chief Scientist for
Plastic Logics Ltd.
November 2010
The uses of statistics in
policy making
Jil Matheson, National Statistician
April 2010
PolicyNet General
Election Sessions
Dr Evan Harris MP, Shadow Science
Minister
April 2010
PolicyNet General Election
Sessions
Adam Afriyie MP, Shadow Minister for
Science and Innovation
PolicyNet events in 2009
June 2009
Climate Change Policies
Jonathon Brearley, Department of Energy and Climate Change
David Kennedy, Committee on Climate Change May 2008
May 2009
Science, Research and
Policy in DIUS
Professor Adrian Smith, Director General for
Science and Research, Department of Innovation,
Universities and Skills
PolicyNet events in 2007-8
June 2008
Science in Parliament
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Member of the House of
Lords Science & Technology Select Committee (Sub
Committee II -Genomic Medicine )
Dr Brian Iddon, MP
(Labour, Bolton South East), Member of the House of
Commons Select Committee on Innovation,
Universities, Science and Skills
Christopher Barclay, Head of the Science & Environment Section,
House of Commons Library
May 2008
Think Tanks: influencing policy
Ms Carey Oppenheim, Co-director, Institute
for Public Policy Research
Dr Jack Stilgoe, Senior Researcher, Demos
February 2008
Science in the Media: the Case of Human-Animal Hybrids
Fiona Fox, Director of the Science Media Centre
Tom Feilden, Science Correspondent on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme
December 2007
Question Time with the Academies
Philip Greenish, Chief Executive, The Royal Academy
of Engineering
Stephen Cox, Executive Secretary, The Royal Society
Robin Jackson, Chief Executive, The British Academy
Mary Manning, Executive Secretary, The Academy of Medical Sciences
Chaired by Fiona Fox, the Science Media Centre
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