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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Volume 19, Number 7
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The Sainsbury Review
Lord Sainsbury: The Race to the Top
Sir Keith O'Nions: The Government's role
Professor Eric Thomas: A leadership role for universities
John Cridland: Speaking in a language that business can understand
Engineering and climate change
Lord Browne and Dr Scott Steedman: Engineering a response to
climate change
John Loughhead: Technologies to reduce emissions
Rolf Tolle: The risk to the insurance industry
Investigating the oceans
Phil Willis: How should UK marine science be organised?
Sir Howard Dalton: Rectifying the mistakes of 20 years ago
Colin Grant: Data - an essential commodity for the marine industry
Advising Government
Sir David King: Standing on the shoulders of science
John Denham: The role of science in public policy
Iain Conn: Informing and persuading
Pallab Ghosh: Using science to inform policy making
Research funding
Professor Ian Diamond: Research Council funding priorities
Obituary
Sir Howard Dalton FRS
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Managing Risk
Rick Haythornthwaite: Risk, responsibility and regulation
Sir David Omand: Risk management - an audit of Government
Biofuels
Lord Oxburgh: The good, the bad and the not so bad
Sir Howard Dalton: Preserving agricultural diversity - the role of second generation biofuels
Ingmar Juergens: The way forward - a global view
Innovation
Jonathan Kestenbaum: Five haibits of innovative societies
Anne Glover: Connecting innovation and business success
Peter Warry: The role of research councils in improving UK performance
Professor Rod Coombs: How the universities can contribute more effectively
The Energy White Paper
Willy Rickett: The challenge of securing secure and sustainable supplies of energy
Barry Neville: The UK needs a market-based approach to energy policy
Dr John Miles: The challenges on the demand side
Government changes
Sir Keith O'Nions: The framework for supporting research and innovation
Phil Willis: The reorganisation - challenges and opportunities
Lord Broers: Staying at the forefront of innovation
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Volume 19, Number 5
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Health Research
Sir David Cooksey: The Cooksey Review of UK health research funding
Professor Colin Blakemore: The future role of the Medical Research Coouncil
Professor Sally Davies: New structures for health research support
Research Paths
Professor Wendy Hall: Future opportunities for UK researchers
Sir Graeme Davies: Supporting research staff - a toolkit for management
Dr John Bothwell: What four things do researchers want?
International Development
Sir Gordon Conway: The stark choices for development policy
Dr Vikram Patel: Placing health at the heart of development
Hon Aleke Bande MP: Building success and development in the 21st century
Intellectual Property Rights
Sir Hugh Laddie: The cost of litigating IP rights
Climage Change
Sir John Maddox: How to keep the world up to date
Comment
Archimedes: No, minister. Do as I say!
The Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award
Understanding the world of speech
Events list
Volume 19, Number 4
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Universities
Lord Rees: Promoting excellence in teaching and research
Professor David Eastwood: The university in contemporary societyNick Butler: Universities in the wider world
Science education
Professor Anne Glover: Are we losing the plot?
Professor John Holman: The purposes of science education
Bob Kibble: Science teaching in Scotland
The Stern Review
Sir Nicholas Stern: The economics of climate change
James Smith: The challenge to the energy sector
Andrew Harrison: Tackling aviation emissions
Sir Partha Dasgupta: Accounting for well-being
Evidence-based policy making
Phil Willis: Scientific advice and policy making
Professor Paul Wiles: The civil service and scientific advice
John Gummer: Science, truth and politics
Obituary
Sir Gareth Roberts
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