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15th March 2018 Stockholm, Sweden
Update on UK response to the Salisbury Incident
On Monday the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, addressed Parliament on the latest information from the investigation of the poisoning of Mr Skripal and his daughter on 4th March. She said that they were poisoned with Novichok: a military grade nerve agent developed by Russia. And that based on Russia’s capability, combined with their record […]
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14th March 2018 Gaborone, Botswana
Celebrating Phenomenal Batswana Women
#PressforProgress A message from Her Excellency The British High Commissioner to Botswana, Katy Ransome on International Women’s Day 2018 We must strive to ensure that women have access to equal opportunities in the workplace, politics and most importantly girls access to education. This International Women’s Day is an opportunity to take action to press forward […]
9th March 2018 USA
British UAS Research Visits The Bay Area
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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9th March 2018
Committed to Copyright Awareness
The UK Intellectual Property Office partnered with the Publishers Association and Cambridge University Press to conduct a Copyright Awareness Programme on February 12, 2018. The Programme was attended by the UK Publishers and supported by the Indian Government. Mr. Rajiv Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, DIPP and other Government Officials from a varieties of government sector including […]
8th March 2018 Canberra, Australia
Women in Security
The security world has a diversity problem. The number of women in senior security roles, within government (and beyond) while improving remains stubbornly low. The higher you go the worse it tends to get. By background I am more of a securocrat than a diplomat and have spent most of my career working on national […]
7th March 2018 Berlin, Germany
Women in Science: fostering UK-German innovation
Today, 8 March, marks International Women’s Day and tomorrow, 9 March, marks the beginning of British Science week. According to UNESCO, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. So today we’re pleased to introduce two female scientists who have agreed to share a little about their careers and experiences as women working at […]
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5th March 2018 Vilnius, Lithuania
Lithuanian Centenary – the people who built our friendship – Writers
Not long after first arriving in Vilnius I hosted the book launch for Kristina Sabaliauskaitė’s new book ‘Vilnius, Wilno, Vilna’. I didn’t know much about the author, although many people in the Embassy had read, and loved, her bestselling Silva Rerum books. I very much enjoyed her Vilnius book, though. So much so that I […]
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1st March 2018 Canberra, Australia
He’s not Sadiq Khan, nor Boris, so who exactly is London’s 690th Lord Mayor?
Alderman Charles Bowman was elected and sworn in as the Lord Mayor of London on 10th November 2017 for the term of one-year. During his tenure the Lord Mayor will represent the City of London, often referred to as the ‘Square Mile’. This is the engine room of the UK economy, a small area but […]
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28th February 2018 Harare, Zimbabwe
UK scientists develop new fingerprinting kit for poached ivory
Can you lift fingerprints from an elephant tusk a whole month after it’s been poached? Sounds impossible – but now it’s not, thanks to the ingenuity of a team of forensic scientists in London.
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26th February 2018 Science and Innovation Network
The Newton Fund in Southeast Asia: Looking back, and looking forward
With celebrations of the New Year in the West and Chinese New Year fading, I took a moment to look back at the Newton Fund last year, and where the year ahead is likely to take us. We closed out 2017 by celebrating the Newton Prize. This Prize is given to recognise the very best […]
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