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8th January 2018 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sustainable Energy from Waste Effluents – a blog by the winner of the Newton Prize Malaysia
This blog is co-authored by Professor Dr. Phang Siew Moi from University of Malaya and Dr. Adrian Fisher from University of Cambridge. Dr. Kamran Yunus and Dr. P. Vengadesh, setting up the Algae Biophotovoltaic Device at the Centre for Research in Electrochemical Science and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, UK. […]
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5th January 2018 Los Angeles, USA
Royal Society and SIN expore AI for social good in Los Angeles
Last month, the Science and Innovation Network joined the Royal Society to host a series of events around the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in California. This is the first in an ongoing series of activities in the US exploring the challenges and opportunities as AI technology becomes more prevalent in society. You can find […]
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21st December 2017 Vientiane, Laos
Holding Up The Sky
During China’s Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed that women “hold up half the sky.” It was an unequivocal assertion of women’s equal rights and responsibilities in society. Half a century on, however, achieving gender parity unfortunately remains unfinished business across the world. Still, the dramatic events of 2017 suggest the empowerment agenda is gaining […]
18th December 2017 Science and Innovation Network
Wales and the World: Higher Education and the Learned Society of Wales
In 1870, Frances Hoggan qualified as a doctor of medicine in Zurich University, the second woman to qualify in Europe. She was born in 1843, the daughter of a curate in Brecon, mid Wales. Wanting to study medicine, she had to go to Zurich because women in Britain were prohibited from sitting professional examinations in […]
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15th December 2017 Canberra, Australia
Annual Review – UK in Australia 2017
In the days before social media, 24/7 news and Freedom of Information requests, British Heads of Mission around the world used to pen an “Annual Review” at the tail end of each year. This was an opportunity for reflection on host countries and bilateral relations; and – inevitably – for competitive Ambassadors and High Commissioners […]
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14th December 2017 Port Louis, Mauritius
A new country but we will still always remember them!
I arrived in Maurtius in August after four wonderful years in magnificent St Petersburg, Russia’s cultural capital. Russia to Mauritius? Quite a change people would say. Well, they were absolutely right. The biggest change is of course the weather. By December we would be well into a long, dark and freezing Russian winter, whereas in […]
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12th December 2017 London, UK
One Planet and our climate diplomacy
Today the Prime Minister joined President Macron and other world leaders at One Planet Summit in Paris. The summit arose from recognition that we are way off-track in tackling climate change. But it also came from a more positive sense that the economics have shifted decisively in favour of a global low carbon transition in recent months. […]
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8th December 2017 London, UK
Faith Actors Can Play a Positive Role in Defending Human Rights. They Need Support.
The right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) is often misunderstood and dismissed as special pleading by the religious, when in reality, in its fullest form, it protects the right of all people to live their lives according to their deepest convictions, whether or not they have a religion or belief. It must be […]
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6th December 2017 Beijing, China
Science exchanges foster collaboration and understanding
Collaboration is part of the ethos of the Met Office and a fundamental component of the Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) programme, supported by the UK Government’s Newton Fund. A core part of the WCSSP programme is the Climate Science for Service Partnership China (CSSP China) – a scientific research programme that […]
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6th December 2017 Vienna, Austria
What does an Ambassador do?
People often ask me what exactly an Ambassador does. I did a video blog about this earlier this year. As I noted then, I represent the UK and its interests in Austria, including at some of the international institutions based in Vienna; engage in debate around issues of Austrian and UK interest; build relationships; and […]