Global Science and Innovation Network
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
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31st January 2013
Montréal, Canada
Thursday January 24th was a very warm day at the McGill Faculty Club. The British Consulate-General in Montreal invited Fellows of the Royal Society of the UK and of the Royal Society of Canada to discuss their experiences as women scientist. Together with Ariane Lucas, our Public Affairs Officer, we were thrilled to organise this […]
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29th January 2013
Washington DC, USA
The UK and US share one of the longest, most productive scientific relationships in the world. Together, we represent over half of the world’s journal citations and nearly 40 percent of global Research & Development funding. We are truly Partners in Science. I’ve got quite the past in the blogosphere. In 2000, I started my […]
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25th January 2013
Toronto, Canada
Earlier this week, Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts gave a speech at the Policy Exchange on “eight great technologies” which will help the UK grow and prosper over the next decade. You can read the speech here, the BIS press release here and the Policy Exchange pamphlet here. Let’s look at each technology […]
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25th January 2013
New Delhi, India
Last week was Health Week for the British Deputy High Commission in Bangalore, with four separate delegations in Bangalore, all with a health interest. First we had Anna Soubry MP, the UK Minister for Public Health. She was in India (visiting Delhi, Trivandrum, Bangalore and Chennai) to explore opportunities for increased collaboration on primary healthcare […]
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18th January 2013
New Delhi, India
Last week I visited the Indian Institute for Science where a distinguished delegation of academics from Imperial College London were holding a joint workshop organised by the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial and the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at IISc Bangalore. Aside from a fabulous lunch up in the trees of IISc’s […]
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15th January 2013
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
The SIN (Science and Innovation Network) is a UK government venture, which builds opportunities for the UK scientific community to enter into partnerships with policy, business and academic counterparts around the world. Located in about 30 countries around the world, the network is made up of about 90 staff. Their goal is to highlight innovation […]
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14th January 2013
New Delhi, India
For my first day back at work in New Year I had the pleasure of welcoming UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Sir John Beddington (@uksciencechief) back to India. He was in Kolkata to speak at the inauguration of the 100th annual Indian Science Congress. Founded in 1914, in Kolkata, the Congress was the initiative […]
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7th January 2013
Ottawa, Canada
So it’s 2013 already! My how time flies when you’re having fun! It’s about this time of year when I like to take a step back and look at what we’ve accomplished over the last 365 days, and to start looking forward to the adventures the coming year will bring. Well, what did last year […]
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3rd January 2013
Toronto, Canada
If you aren’t familiar with the Raspberry Pi, it’s a $35 computer about the size of a credit card. Designed and assembled in the UK, the RPi was conceived as an educational tool to bring “real” computer science back into schools. Rather than simply learning how to be an end-user of computer programs, students would […]
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2nd January 2013
New Delhi, India
You had the SINners best bits of 2012 and so we thought at the start of this new year it would be a good time to have a look at what the SIN India team are getting excited about in 2013. Events and projects ranging from environmental issues to bioenergy to creative economy are going […]
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