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Volume 20, Number 7

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Editorial
Sir John Parker: An engineering renaissance for economic revival

Skills
Philip Greenish: Delivering the skilled people the economy needs
John Hayes: The future of non-graduate training
Amarjit Basi: Embedding FE in the local community
Norman Pickavance: A retailer's point of view

Mental health
Lord Layard: The cost of managing mental health in the UK
Professor Simon Wessely: Health in mind and body
David Behan: No health without mental health

Public data
Professor Paul Boyle: The value of routinely-collected administrative data
Baroness O'Neill: Is current data protection legislation coherent?
Stephen Penneck: Public trust in public data

Stimulating innovation
Lord Krebs: Focusing Government procurement on innovation
Darren James: Intelligent customers and appropriate suppliers
Sally Collier: Adding flexibility - and value
Professor Brian Collins: Public procurement in practice

Ecosystems
Professor Bob Watson: The UK National Ecosystem Assessment

Science advice in a crisis
Sir John Beddington and Professor Patrick Cunningham

Volume 20, Number 6

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Research funding
Sir Adrian Smith: Allocating science and research funding
Professor Malcolm Grant: New funding realities mean changing priorities
Dr Patrick Vallance: The future of the UK pharmaceuticals industry

Fukushima
Sir John Beddington: The importance of scientific advice in disaster response
Professor Nick Pidgeon: Public attitudes to nuclear power
Professor Laurence Williams: The design of nuclear power stations
Dr Mike Weightman: The implications for the UK

The digital revolution
Professor Michael Fourman: Can Scotland grasp the opportunities?
John McClelland: ICT in the public sector
Rashik Parmar: The promise of IT innovation

Biofuels
Dr Bernie Bulkin: Achieving the renewable energy target
James Primrose: The global growth in biofuels
Sam Cockerill: Biorefining in the UK
Professor Douglas Kell: Carbon dioxide - an age-old problem

Volume 20, Number 5

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Innovation in an age of austerity
Lord Browne of Madingley

Statistics in Government
Professor Bernard Silverman: Crime statistics and policy
Sir Michael Scholar: Asserting the impartiality of official statistics
Professor David Hand: A better understanding of statistics

Risk management
Sir John Beddington: Understanding and responding to risk
Sir David Omand: Why don't/won't they listen?
Professor Dougal Goodman: Using scientific analysis to improve
risk management
Professor David Spiegelhalter: An overview of the debate

European research
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz: The outlook for science in Europe
Professor Bernard Belloc: A view from France
Seán O'Reagain: Building stronger European research partnerships

Behavioural change
Professor David MacKay: Modelling pathways to greener energy supplies
Stuart Groves: Delivering the UK's low-carbon targets
Pilgrim Beart: Encouraging changes in consumption patterns

Sustainable cities
Professor Paul Younger: Making old industrial cities sustainable
Dr Peter White: Sustainability - what we do and how we do it
Chi Onwurah: The challenge and opportunity of regeneration

Volume 20, Number 4

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Millennium Development Goals
Professor Sir John Enderby: Science, technology and the MDGs

The Scientific Century
Lord Rees: Securing our future prosperity
Sir Paul Nurse: Shaping a vision for UK research
Professor Sir Richard Friend: Establishing a successful long-term strategy
Professor Adrian Smith: The impact of scientific research

Science and innovation
Dr Hermann Hauser: Bridging the gap between ideas and applications
Professor David Delpy: The view from the Research Councils
Lord Broers: Reflections from personal experience

Science education
Sir Mark Walport: Science and society in the 21st century
Sir John Holman: Improving science teaching
Professor Lisa Jardine: Increasing scientific understanding in the population

High speed rail
Lord Adonis: The future strategy in the UK
Iain Coucher: An opportunity to expand rail travel
Guillaume Pepy: Running high speed networks
Terry Hill: Delivering high speed infrastructure

Climate change
Professor Sir John Beddington: What next after Copenhagen?
Lord Jay: Achieving an international consensus
Lord Oxburgh: The continuing debate

Peak water
John Liu: The task of restoring ecosystem function
Michael Norton: The quest for water security
Jennifer Schooling and Mark Fletcher: Resilience in a changing world
Professor Chris Whitty: Water, health and development

IPCC needs fundamental reform

Volume 20, Number 3

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Learned societies
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell: The role of learned societies in policy development

Space
Enthusing the next generation

Engineering
Phil Willis: Turning ideas into reality
Lord Browne: Building on success
Dick Olver: At the forefront of the global market
Lord Drayson: The need for reliable and authoritative advice

Beyond recession
Professor Peter Gregson: The key partnerships to deliver innovation
Eoin O'Driscoll: Finding the right niche
Iain Gray: Building joined-up support for innovation

Digital Britain
Dominic Morris: The Digital Britain report
Professor Dame Wendy Hall: To be or not to be a digital Britain?
Dr Alfred Spector: The role of the web in an 'evolutionary revolution'
Erik Huggers: The future of broadcasting in a digital Britain

Climate change in Scotland
Professor Geoffrey Boulton: The space between science and politics
Professor John Mitchell: The impact of climate change in Scotland
Andrew Dlugolecki: What business needs to know about climate change

Infrastructure
Sir Mark Walport: A national infrastructure for the 21st century
Professor Brian Collins: How to modernise our ageing infrastructure
Professor Tim Broyd: Defending the national infrastructure

Synthetic biology
Professor Richard Kitney: Synthetic biology - a threat or an opportunity?
Professor Pamela Silver: Making biology easier to design
Professor Nikolas Rose: Social science sets the context

Volume 20, Number 2

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Higher Education - Higher Ambitions for education
Sir Alan Langlands: The future of Higher Education in England
Professor Michael Arthur: Maintaining our position in the world
Sir John Chisholm: A business viewpoint

Transport emissions
Professor Brian Collins: Understanding the full picture
Professor Dan Sperling: The three-legged stool of transportation reform
Professor Neville Jackson: Reducing carbon emissions from transport

Biodiversity
Professor Bob Watson: Can a value be put on biodiversity?
Pavan Sukhdev: Safeguarding the treasury of the poor
Lord May: The ethical dimension in valuing diversity

Medical research
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz: From bench to bedside - strategic aims of the MRC
Sir John Bell: Supporting and coordinating medical research
Sir David Cooksey: Economic challenges in drug discovery

Cities and science
Boris Johnson: Can city managers make better use of science?
Sir Alan Wilson: Social sciences in the city - think big!
Professor Tim Allen: Science and technology in local government

Financial models
Professor John Kay: The role of models in directing economic activity
Paul Sharma: The problems of mathematical modelling
Professor David Hand: Did over-reliance on mathematics create the financial crisis?

Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Lecture
Lighting up the brain

Volume 20, Number 1

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The Science Select Committees

Defence technology
Paul Stein: Applying science and technology to defence
Alison Wood: Industry and the wider defence partnership
Professor Ron Smith: Military and civil links

Statistical advice
Sir David Omand: Formulating effective policies
Professor Adrian Smith: The impact of statistical advice on policy
Sir Gus O'Donnell: Objective evidence, public perceptions and the issue of trust

Energy technologies
Dr David Clarke: A partnership to deliver the energy technologies of the future
Dr Mark Henstridge: Technological innovation and energy supply
Willy Rickett: The role of innovation in achieving energy security

Assessing risk
Sarah Veale: The struggle between instinct and reason
Judith Hackitt: Have we got the balance right?
Sir Alistair MacDuff: Achieving a balance between safety and convenience

Wellbeing
Professor Tom Kirkwood: Mental capital, skills and wellbeing
Lord Layard: Raising skills to counter inequality in the workplace
John Denham: Skills training in the recession and beyond

Obituary
Sir John Maddox

Volume 19, Number 10

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Science strategy
Lord Drayson: The future strategy for science and innovation in the UK
Lord Rees: Consider all the candidates for investment
Sir Peter Gershon: Do not forget nearer term goals
Peter Ringrose: Balancing the portfolio
Trudy Norris-Grey: Revisiting our business models

The Scottish economy
Jim Mather: Establishing a coherent vision for Scotland
John McClelland: Innovation is not rocket science
Dr Michael Harris: More sophisticated models of innovation

Food security
Professor John Beddington: The global balance of supply and demand
Lord Haskins: The dangers of protectionism
Dr Derek Byerlee: Food security in the developing world

Physics review
Professor Bill Wakeham: The state of physics in the UK
Professor David Delpy: Encouraging greater inter-disciplinary engagement
Professor Keith Mason: Delivering real results to the wider community
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Challenges for the future

Obituaries
Professor Sir Hugh Laddie
Sir Richard Morris

Volume 19, Number 9

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Primary education
Sir Peter Williams: Intervention in mathematics in primary schools
Sir Jim Rose: Improving primary education
David Fann: The view from the classroom

Innovation
Dr Ian Pearson: A fundamental component of our future prosperity
Professor Vicky Pryce: Delivering greater productivity
Andy Goldberg: The rise and fall of the 'ideapreneur'

Energy efficiency
Lord Turner: Improving the energy efficiency of the existing building stock
Professor Michael Kelly: Engineering a strategy - a personal view
James Rae: Investing in technology to achieve improved efficiency
Eddy Collier: How does the UK achieve its carbon reduction goals?

Environmental change
Professor Bob Watson: A programme that tackles some of the big questions
Professor Alan Thorpe: Predicting possible futures to inform sound policy
Dr Richard Pike: New technologies for a sustainable world

Olympic legacy
Tessa Jowell: What will be the legacy of the 2012 London Olympics?
John Armitt: Building the Olympic legacy
Tom Russell: Choices and priorities for the Olympic legacy
Lord Mawson: Creating Water City in East London

Sustainable transport
Professor Brian Collins: The road to integrated policy
Dr Bernie Bulkin: 21st century high speed rail
Ian Dobbs: Adapting to changing demand
Roger Wiltshire: Sustainable aviation

The Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award
Dr Scott Steedman: Lessons for London from the New Orleans flood

Volume 19, Number 8

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Development in Scotland
Professor Gavin McCrone: Development policy for the remote regions
Professor Mark Shucksmith: Empowering communities is the key
John Cameron: Preserving the social fabric of our rural communities
Professor Frank Rennie: Broadband, the highway to the islands

Freight transport
Professor Brian Collins: The elements of a freight transportation system
Lord Berkeley: Forecasting for future policy and investment
Tom Falcon: Part of a global supply chain
Professor Michael Stumpf: Mathematical modelling of transport networks

DNA profiling
Meg Hillier and Peter Neyroud: DNA profiles on police data systems
Jonathan Bamford: Individual rights and DNA databases
Tony Lake: How profiles are used in practice
Dr Peter Gill: The science behind DNA profiles

Innovation
Iain Gray: The mission of the Technology Strategy Board
Professor Andy Hopper: Developing the geese that lay golden eggs
Dr Richard Ward: Science and finance

Carbon trading
Professor Bob Watson: Can carbon trading help meet emissions targets?
Professor Michael Grubb: The EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Marc Stuart: What future for the CDM?

The Select Committees