A blog showcasing the work of the Global UK Science and Innovation Network, approximately 90 officers in over 30 countries and territories around the world
16th January 2017 Toronto, Canada
Imagine being able to hop into a vehicle, tell it where you want to go, then be able to pull out your laptop and watch some TV, or get some work done on the way to your destination!
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13th January 2017 Beijing, China
Checking the air quality index is pretty much the first thing I do every morning. It’s funny how life is governed by a (hopefully) double digit number; when it goes into triple digits you’re in trouble. Christmas and New Year were a blur of pollution in our latest ‘airpocalypse’, not helped by the recent arrival […]
9th January 2017 Mumbai, India
Dr Michael Messenger (Mike), Head of the Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health, was in India in November 2016. Leeds is one of the leading centres of excellence designated by the UK Precision Medicine Catapult (PMC) and is taking a whole-system city wide approach to bring the benefits of precision medicine and health to its population, […]
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23rd December 2016 Kenya
Access to safe drinking water is fundamental to human development and well-being. It is also a fundamental human right, as recognised in 2010 by the United Nations General Assembly. Worldwide, over 663 million people still lack access to safe drinking water; nearly half of this population lives in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Science and innovation must […]
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21st December 2016 Lagos, Nigeria
The second South Africa Science Forum 2016, which was held from December 8 -9 at the International Convention Centre of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa (SA) was a great opportunity for SIN Officers (Nairobi, Kenya; Cape Town, South Africa; and Lagos, Nigeria) to meet and interact with various […]
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15th December 2016 New Delhi, India
Dr Richard Allan, Head of the Centre of Expertise for Waters at the James Hutton Institute was invited by the Science and Innovation Network (SIN) India in November this year. He along with Dr Stephen Perry from the Hydro Industries and Martin Shouler from Arup were helping us with identifying potential opportunities of joint UK-India […]
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15th December 2016 Beijing, China
On 6th December I attended the 4th UK-China People to People Dialogue which is chaired by Vice Premier Liu Yandong and Jeremy Hunt. It covers a range of issues including science and innovation, education, health and culture. John Loughhead, Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, travelled to Shanghai to […]
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14th December 2016 Shanghai
It was just over sixty years ago that radio telescopes across England discovered a series of mysterious meteorites entering the Earth’s orbit. A leading scientist from the British Rocket Group was sent to investigate and he was shocked to discover these meteorites were part of an alien life form, a life form that emitted a […]
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9th December 2016 Science and Innovation Network
Once a year, the global scientific community is honoured and celebrated during the Nobel Prize Award ceremony in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Sweden has been the birthplace of some of the world’s leading researchers, including the Nobel Prize founder and inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel. Sweden also boasts some of the world’s leading research […]
9th December 2016 Shanghai
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR for short) could be the biggest killer you’ve never heard of. Last year an estimated 700,000 people around the world died from AMR. And this figure is increasing rapidly. If left unchecked, deaths will increase to 10 million per year by 2050. To put that in context, 8.2 million people globally died […]
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