Let’s have a conversation about the funding of science

Throughout the Science is Vital campaign I was aware that whilst we were fighting to retain science funding, no-one really had an accurate map of current funding. We managed fine because we concentrated on funding through BIS and that was reasonably clear. If we had to enter into a wider conversation Read more…

Science is Vital – and so is the campaign strategy

Last Saturday I listened to Evan Harris talk about some failures, in his keynote at the Science Online London conference.  He wasn’t trying to be negative, just making very valid points about the complexities and subtleties of changing government policy. Two particular gems stood out: Simon Singh failed paradoxically because Read more…

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