EVENTS
The Foundation organises events on key topics in science, research, technology or innovation, bringing together parliamentarians, civil servants, industrialists, researchers, learned societies, charities and others. Those events focus in particular on areas where there are policy decisions needed, which in turn need to be informed by this wide range of inputs and viewpoints. Summary reports are prepared for all events, and these - along with presentation slides, videos of speakers and audio files - are available online after events.
Aviation 2050: The Vision for Science and Innovation
- 2019
- London
In December 2018, the Government published a strategy for consultation on Aviation 2050: The Future of UK Aviation. Science, technology and innovation will play a major part in delivering that strategy. In this discussion event, speakers discussed the overall Aviation 2050 strategy and views from the research and industrial communities. The event explored where technology in aviation is now, where it’s going in the next decades and how the deliverable the Aviation 2050 strategy is. The Aviation 2050 Strategy can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/aviation-2050-the-future-of-uk-aviation
Read MoreMeasuring and improving productivity - what tools and levers can we use?
In this event, three speakers set out some of the issues surrounding productivity in the UK. What is it? How do we measure it? Do we have the levers to improve it? And what should the Government, industry and others be doing to bring UK productivity levels up to that of our competitors?
Read MoreThe Review of Post-18 Education and Funding
The Prime Minister announced a major review of post-18 education, advised by an independent panel led by Philip Augar, in February 2018. At this meeting, Philip Augar presented outcome of the review and other speakers from higher and further education discussed its potential implications.
Read MoreThe Two Cultures: Sixty Years On
This event was held to mark the 60th anniversary of the famous Rede Lecture by CP Snow in which he used the term “two cultures”, describing the divide between sciences and humanities. The speakers and panellists explored what unites, and divides, research across the sciences and humanities in 2019. To what extent has the divide described by Snow changed in the subsequent decades?
Read MoreDelivering the Government's Maritime 2050 Strategy - the vision for science and technology
- 2019
- Dinner, Discussion
The Government published its Maritime 2050 Strategy, Navigating the Future, on 24 January 2019. The strategy sets out a number of strategic ambitions for the UK, including clean maritime growth; the development of new maritime technologies such as autonomy; education and training; regulation; and investment. This event explored the new strategy and how science, technology and innovation can help deliver it over the next three decades.
Read MoreCan the goals of the Paris Agreement on the response to climate change be delivered?
Read MoreIs the UK well prepared for a repeat of the 1918 influenza pandemic?
- 2018
- Dinner, Discussion
What is the best way to achieve the Government’s target of spending 2.4% of GDP on R&D by 2027?
- 2018
- Dinner, discussion