Scientific collaboration: The Netherlands meets the UK

6 March 2018 by Laura Wilton, Senior Policy Adviser

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, is reported to have said: ‘Whenever I found out…

TEDxWhitehall 2018

31 January 2018 by Abigail Harris, Science Policy Intern

Jam-packed with live speakers, performances, videos and even an art exhibition, TEDxWhitehall brought together over 180 researchers, civil servants, policy…

Data Protection Bill – Briefing ahead of report stage debate of a Personal Data Ethics Board

9 January 2018 by Becky Purvis, Head of Public Affairs

The Data Protection Bill, which focuses on the processing of personal data, enters its third day of report stage in…

Machine learning and AI for social good: views from NIPS 2017

20 December 2017 by Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser

In early December, 8000 machine learning researchers gathered in Long Beach for 2017’s Neural Information Processing Systems conference. In the margins…

The making of the Museum of Extraordinary Objects

29 November 2017 by by Julie Light (@juliejlight) and Stephen Bennett (@srgbennett)

“In 2018, the UK science community led the creation of the now paradigmatic roadmap ‘Visions of 2035: a way to…