FST BLOG
We welcome blogs on issues across Science, Technology, Research and Innovation, and on the activities of the Foundation. To publish a blog on this site, please email communications@foundation.org.uk.
Note: The Foundation for Science and Technology is strictly neutral. Any views expressed in these blogs are those of the authors and not of the Foundation.
COP26, climate change and the lesson from COVID-19
- 4 May, 2020
- Environment
- Martin Siegert and Joeri Rogelj
What is the lesson to be learnt from COVID-19 to take forward to help tackle climate change? Martin Siegert and Joeri Rogelj discuss the required UK strategy for COP26 in order to limit the damage climate change has already caused.
Read MoreCommunicating climate change during the coronavirus crisis – what the evidence says
- 1 May, 2020
- Environment
- Robin Webster
How should we communicate the climate change crisis during the time of another crisis? Robin Webster discusses the importance of speaking to people's values and tailoring communications to different audiences in climate engagement.
Read MoreFinding my Feet on the Foundation’s Future Leaders Programme
- 27 April, 2020
- General
- Sarah Dalmedo
What does it mean to be a Foundation Future Leader? Sarah Dalmedo reflects and writes about her experience as a FFL and delves into what they have been up to over the past year since the programme first began.
Read MoreScience Policy and the long-term future of High Energy Physics
- 22 April, 2020
- General
- Conor Fitzpatrick
How do we define success in science policy, by the short term outcomes or what we can see 40 years down the line? Conor Fitzpatrick discusses the nuanced relationship in policy between long term investment and short-term outcomes in the High Energy Physics world.
Read MoreScience Policy at the Francis Crick Institute
- 15 April, 2020
- General
- Helena Brown
Science Policy bridges the gap between the research laboratory and the government. Helena Brown writes about the vital role of science policy, and how scientists are encouraged to engage at the Francis Crick Institute.
Read MoreThe double face of research in low and middle-income countries – facing the pandemic
- 8 April, 2020
- General
- Kirsty Le Doare
In the amidst of a pandemic, we must not forget the other health challenges that continue to face the world. Kirsty Le Doare writes about maternal and newborn infectious disease in low and middle- income countries in light of Covid-19.
Read MoreX marks the Pandemic
- 6 April, 2020
- General
- Alana Cullen
Disease X was prophesied by the World Health Organisation, and now it is here in the form of Covid-19. Alana Cullen discusses why pandemics are set to increase, and the story of Coronavirus.
Read MoreTo glove or not to glove: a timely history of hand hygiene
- 1 April, 2020
- General
- Dr Fay Bound Alberti
Gloves- a barrier to disease, or an emotional comfort when faced with disease? Dr Fay Bound Alberti discusses the history of hand washing and the role of gloves in medical history.
Read MoreOn the effect of Black Swans on projects
- 25 March, 2020
- Business
- Alan Mosca
Black Swan events happen infrequently but when they do, have a high impact. Alan Mosca explains the current risk analysis systems, and the potential for better ones which encompass these Black Swans.
Read MoreA Case for the Frequent Flyer Levy
- 16 March, 2020
- Environment
- Abu Jaffar-Latif
With the climate crisis growing, governments are having to debate ways to help cut their carbon emissions; and introducing a Frequent Flyer Levy could be the way forward.
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