25th July 2020
Image ©Aliona Adrianova During my first meeting with Foreign Office Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Simon McDonald in March 2019, when we discussed ideas for the portrait of The Queen that he wanted to commission, I was delighted to hear that he wanted it to feel intimate. He wanted to express Her Majesty’s humanity, rather than creating […]
2nd August 2019
When planning an event there are lots of factors to take into consideration and it is becoming ever-more important to think about how to protect the environment as a part of this planning. It is our responsibility to look after our planet and there are ways we can all contribute with just a little extra […]
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30th July 2019
Priscila Bellini is a Brazilian journalist and a Chevening Scholar studying Gender, Media and Culture at the London School of Economics and Political Science. What does it mean to report freely on issues of public interest, if we are to be attentive to gender? After all, the stories we cover are, oftentimes, marked by gender. […]
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22nd July 2019
Dina Meza is an award winning Honduran journalist and defender of freedom of expression. She is the director of human rights organisation ASOPODEHU. Susi Bascon has been the director of the UK section of Peace Brigades International since 1998 an organisation that currently provides live saving support and protection to over 800 Human Rights Defenders […]
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16th August 2018
I was in my home town of Edinburgh last week. August is a great time to be in Scotland’s capital city. The Edinburgh International Festival was born out of the destruction of the Second World War, its creators conceiving it as a “platform for the flowering of the human spirit”. From modest beginnings in 1947, […]
1st August 2018
In the last couple of weeks I’ve witnessed two great examples of the enduring strength of educational links between Singapore and the UK. On Tuesday 24th of July, I attended the Convocation ceremony at Nanyang Technological University for the first cohort of medical graduates from the Lee Kong Chiang (LKC) School of Medicine, a partnership with […]
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29th June 2018 Science and Innovation Network
As a Brit abroad, it’s still my go-to conversation starter when I call my colleagues in other countries in the region. There’s a misconception that the weather at the equator is the same most of the year round, but this is far from the truth! The islands of Southeast Asia (known to meteorologists as the […]
31st May 2018 Science and Innovation Network
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water – H. Auden Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too […]
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30th April 2018 Science and Innovation Network
Over the last four years, the Lancaster China Catalyst Programme (LCCP) has been working with SMEs from the UK to establish collaborative research and innovation partnerships with Chinese companies in the Guangzhou area on projects related to the Environment, IT and Engineering. The Programme was established by Lancaster University in response to national interests […]
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9th March 2018 USA
In February 2018, the UK Science & Innovation Network brought researchers from the Universities of Southampton, Bristol, and Cranfield to the Bay Area, where they represented the UK’s newly-formed CASCADE research consortium at the NSF-funded Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ Industry Advisory Board (C-UAS IAB) meeting at Facebook Headquarters. C-UAS brings together five leading American universities […]
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