12th November 2010 Ottawa, Canada

Louise Shaxson speaks to her experience @ CSPC

As some of you may already know (through being there and chatting, or by following our twitter feeds) several Science and Innovation Officers from the UKinCanada Science and Innovation Network were attending the Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) last week in Montreal.  It was an excellent event, for which the organization committee should be commended, […]

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12th November 2010 Ottawa, Canada

Guest Blog – Two UK Participants discuss their experience at the Canadian Science Policy Conference

It is with great pleasure that I publish our first written external guest blog (actually a co-guest blog, to be specific)! Louise Shaxson of Delta Partnership and Michelle Burns of Department for International Development discuss their experience at this years Canadian Science Policy Conference: Louise    Louise Shaxson running her session at the KTKB2010 workshop October […]

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9th November 2010 Ottawa, Canada

“Lipstick In School”: Thanks and a partial reflection on the Montreal KT/KB workshop

I’d like to introduce our next guest blogger, Alex Bielak, who in trying to leave a comment ended up writing us an entire blog posting!  Alex has been a fixture in the science communication world in Canada, both as an excellent communicator and writer himself, but also through his knowledge translation & knowledge brokering activities at the Environment […]

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5th November 2010 Ottawa, Canada

Two UK Recipients Among the Canadian International Gairdner Award Winners

If you’re in a Canadian or international health science field, then you’ve likely heard of the Gairdner Foundation and the awards they distribute, and if not, then let me quote from their “About us” page: “The Gairdner Foundation was created in 1957 by James Arthur Gairdner to recognize and reward the achievements of medical researchers whose work contributes […]

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13th October 2010 Ottawa, Canada

A Science Officer In London

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 […]

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1st October 2010 Ottawa, Canada

Final Team Introduction: Nicolina Farella

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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About Nicole Arbour

Based in the National Capital, I cover the federal S&T sector, national S&T organisations, as well as local industry and academic partners. I manage the UK’s Science & Innovation Network…

Based in the National Capital, I cover the federal S&T sector, national S&T organisations, as well as local industry and academic partners. I manage the UK’s Science & Innovation Network in Canada, and our contribution towards the wider Canada-UK relationship. This year my focus will be working towards the delivery of the Canada-UK Joint Declaration and the Canada-UK Joint Innovation Statement. In my spare time I like to cook and spend quality time with my family. Find me on Twitter @narbour