13th October 2010 Ottawa, Canada
At the end of September our Vancouver-based Science Officer, (the delightful) Paolo Marcazzan, headed to London for a week of training and meetings. These kinds of trips are essential to the work of the Science & Innovation team; keeping up to the minute with UK science policy developments is much easier when you sit down […]
1st October 2010 Ottawa, Canada
Uh, testing… testing.. is this thing on? Hello blogland. It’s Claire in Toronto. Nicole is off on some well deserved holidays, so I’ll be manning (womaning?) the SIN Canada blog for the next couple of weeks. Today, we’re finishing up our team introductions with Nicolina Farella, Science Officer Extaordinaire, based in Montreal. As you will […]
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24th September 2010 Ottawa, Canada
No team introductions would be complete (and really there is still one more to go after this ;P) without the introduction to the very important, but perhaps somewhat unsung role of the S&I Assistant! Our assistant Gill is fabulous! Working on a part-time basis (2 days a week – Mondays and Wednesdays), she keeps on top of all […]
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16th September 2010 Ottawa, Canada
So on my quest as a Science & Innovation Officer for HMG to a) inform people of the UK Science and Innovation Network (in Canada and abroad) and b) to identify really cool cutting edge Canadian science, I’m off next week on a field trip to Sudbury, Ontario! View Larger Map Many of you who have been […]
9th September 2010 Ottawa, Canada
Our introductions move on to the West coast, where I will be introducing you to Dr. Paolo Marcazzan, our Science, Innovation and Energy Officer. Photo by Frank Wimart Paolo is the only “Y” chromosome in our group (I don’t know quite how this happened – poor fellow ;P). I think of him our the quiet, speculative team member […]
30th August 2010 Ottawa, Canada
Have you ever asked yourself: “What is innovation?” Maybe not, but as a Science & “Innovation” officer, I ask myself that all the time! So with this blog posting, I thought I’d give myself the excellent excuse to figure out just what we mean by Innovation, and also, what it means in Canada in particular. […]
20th August 2010 Ottawa, Canada
On to more team Science & Innovation Canada intros! Continuing with my Toronto theme, let me introduce you to our Science & Innovation Associate, Claire Hastings. Photo by Frank Wimart Claire is a lovely person with a sparkling personality. She’s bubbly, intelligent, fun to be around, and VERY knowledgeable about all things FCO and UKinCanada […]
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18th August 2010 Ottawa, Canada
What do you get when you invite a bunch of science friendly people, add some quirky yet challenging quiz questions, and some social lubricant? Well a Science and Innovation Quiz Night of course! So on Friday the 13th (yes, you read correctly – which also happened to be last Friday, August 13, 2010), I hosted […]
18th August 2010 Ottawa, Canada
I’m sure you’re asking yourself what I’m doing as a UK Science and Innovation Officer in Canada? Well, a big part of what I do is networking and network development. I talk to researchers, those involved in research administration and policy development, and remind them of all the fabulous research that is done in the […]
18th August 2010 Ottawa, Canada
So now you know a bit more about what we do here as the UK Science and Innovation team in Canada, but who are we? For my next trick, I’ll start introducing you to my fellow team members. This way you will get an idea of who else will be blogging here with me, but […]
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