Evidence synthesis – behind the scenes

28 November 2018 by Sarah Giles, Susan Guthrie and Catriona Manville

  In September, the Royal Society and RAND Europe published an evidence synthesis on the impacts of ammonia emissions from…

Computing Education – 1 year on

27 November 2018 by Professor Simon Peyton Jones FRS

Education is at the heart of discussions about digital skills and computing. One year on from the Royal Society’s report…

AI in health and care: delivering novel therapies in the 21st century

26 November 2018 by Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser

From genomics, to digital technologies, and gene-editing to stratified medicine, a range of emerging technologies promise revolutions in the design…

From geoengineering to gene drives: move over, moratoria

16 November 2018 by Emma Woods, Head of Policy, Wellbeing

Around this time six years ago I was in Hyderabad in India getting to grips with moratoria. Back then conversations…

Flourishing in a data-enabled Europe: interview with the Royal Society’s Foreign Secretary

13 November 2018 by Franck Fourniol, Policy Adviser

Earlier this month, the Royal Society hosted a two-day pan-European Flourishing in a data-enabled society conference, in partnership with ALLEA…