Tag: science policy

18th March 2011 Ottawa, Canada

Our New SIN Intern at the Toronto Consulate General: John Preece

I’d like to introduce everyone to the newest member of our team, Dr. John Preece.  John, who will introduce himself to you directly below, is our intern in Toronto. He has tons of interesting varied experience and has thrown himself enthusiastically into the SIN portfolio, starting with a blog (of which there are already more […]

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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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30th August 2010 Ottawa, Canada

What is "Innovation"?

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. […]

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