Written by Jonathan Hall Earth Science PhD students Jonathan Hall and Jack Richardson, and MSc Applied and Petroleum Micropalaeontology graduate Rebecca Walley travelled to Edinburgh in mid-November (17-20th) to showcase Fossil Forensics at the Natural Environmental Research Councils’s (NERC) annual science public engagement event, this year titled UnEarthed. Fossil Forensic team members: Rebecca Walley, Jonathan Hall and Jack Richardson Created by … Continue reading “PER case studies: Fossil Forensics – UnEarthed 2017”
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The Industrial Strategy
Written by guest blogger Dr Steve Taylor, Head of Strategic Research Development UK Governments since Neville Chamberlain’s in the 1930s (and I am sure scholars will offer examples from before) have sought some form of Industrial Strategy – policies that support growth in the economy through enabling UK industry. So, the idea is nothing new, … Continue reading “The Industrial Strategy”
EC Science policy interface session 1: David Mair, 6th June 2017
Written by guest blogger Prof Anna C. Whittaker I attended this session for several reasons, the most pressing being that I am running a large European Commission Horizon2020 funded grant, and secondly that we promised to try to influence policy with the research emerging from it! So from the odd note and tweeted picture, here … Continue reading “EC Science policy interface session 1: David Mair, 6th June 2017”
NERC Community Consultation on Public Engagement
Written by Dr Carl Stevenson, College of Life & Environmental Sciences public engagement champion NERC is currently planning a funding call under its public engagement strategy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/about/whatwedo/engage/public/ . The aim of this call is to invest in a large scale, ambitious and collaborative project of up to £1.3M over three years. As part of the planning … Continue reading “NERC Community Consultation on Public Engagement”
Leading to Impact’: Q+A Lee Chapman
Professor Lee Chapman, based in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, has been at the University since 1998. Demonstrating a keen interest in potential business applications of research since his PhD, Lee could be considered a serial entrepreneur having already run and sold on a successful University of Birmingham spin-out company and is now … Continue reading “Leading to Impact’: Q+A Lee Chapman”
Science, Research and Parliament – An academic’s guide to getting involved in Parliament
As a new-ish member of the Research Planning Team at the University of Birmingham and from a background in scientific research I now regularly get asked the question ‘How do I get involved in parliament, and influence government policy? – Not a simple answer. So to raise our team’s knowledge and to allow us to … Continue reading “Science, Research and Parliament – An academic’s guide to getting involved in Parliament”