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Diary Highlights
| 26/05/11 CaSE attended the farewell reception for the outgoing Chief Executive of the Association of Medical Research Charities, Simon Denegri
26/05/11 Hilary Leevers was delighted to attend the official opening of Penguin Beach at the Zoological Society of London
25/05/11 Hilary Leevers was on the panel discussing Working with Policy Makers at the British Science Association Science Communication Conference 2011
24/05/11 Hilary Leevers, Nick Hall and Samantha Gan participated in the Science and the Welsh Assembly 2011 event
17/05/11 Imran Khan attended a lunch event with Sir Michael Barber, hosted by the think-tank Reform
12/05/11 Imran Khan attended an Academy of Medical Sciences FORUM meeting
10/05/11 Imran Khan attended a roundtable organised by Pfizer to discuss the science of personalised medicine
09/05/11 Imran Khan met with Keith Lawrey from the Foundation for Science & Technology
09/05/11 Hilary Leevers attended Education Policy Lunchbox by Craig Mahoney of the Higher Education Academy
09/05/11 CaSE attended the Sense About Science Annual Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine
05/05/11 Imran Khan took part in a Royal Society Science Policy event
04/05/11 Imran Khan attended a Royal Society dinner with the Government Chief Scientific Adviser Professor John Beddington |
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Devolved Elections 2011
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Following the results of the devolved elections on May 5th, CaSE is now looking to engage with the new Parliament and Assemblies in raising the profile of science and engineering.
CaSE has produced a devolved policy report, 'Science, Engineering & the Devolved Nations 2011', sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which contains analysis of regional and national science and engineering performance, and forms the rationale for our campaigning work in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
In a recent extract from the report on the CaSE blog, Dr Hilary Leevers looks at key STEM comparisons across the nations of the UK.
We recently attended the Science and the Welsh Assembly event in Cardiff Bay, organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry, which brought the science and engineering community together with the Welsh Assembly. CaSE held talks with a number Welsh Assembly Members and the Welsh Chief Scientific Adviser, and looks forward to helping develop a long-term science and engineering strategy for Wales. You can read a summary of the event by CaSE intern Dr Samantha Gan.
CaSE will also be attending Science and the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast on June 6th and Understanding and Influencing the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on June 15th.
For more details on CaSE's devolved work, including responses from the party leaders to CaSE's letter, setting out key commitments by the parties and the CaSE devolved blog, visit the 'devolved' section of our website, or follow us on Twitter.
If you would like any further information or wish to get involved you can also contact us directly.
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Science Question Time - Impact
| | The third Science Question Time is being held at Imperial College London on Tuesday 5th July. You can register here.
The panel includes Ehsan Masood (Editor of Research Fortnight and Chair), Clare Matterson (Medical Humanities and Engagement at the Wellcome Trust), Phil Campbell (Editor-in-Chief Nature), Jonathan Haskel (Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School) and Bob Ward (Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute)
We're inviting speaker and the audience to discuss impact in its broadest sense - from economic to academic to political, as well as public engagement.
Click here to download or listen to the podcast of the second Question Time on STEM education. You can also listen to the first Science Question Time, which discussed the state of the scientific nation.
For further details about the events please get in touch.
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Evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee
| | The HoC Science & Technology Select Committee has now published its report into Scientific Advice and Evidence in Emergencies. You can read the evidence CaSE submitted to the committee here. In it we stress the importance of funding and advice mechanisms to ensure expertise is available.
The S&T Committee is also undertaking an inquiry into the Spending Review 2010, and its impact upon the science and engineering base. You can read the evidence originally submitted by CaSE here. In it we argue that the science budget 'freeze' may have been a misnomer, and urge the committee to investigate the potential worsening funding situation.
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New Policy Calender
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CaSE has launched a new policy events calendar, available to view here.
We've tried to bring together upcoming policy events from a range of hosts into one resource, and hope you find it useful. We're not claiming this list is comprehensive, so if you're hosting or know of any events you'd like to add to the list, please do email us about them - the restrictions are that it should be connected to science and engineering policy in some way, and that it should not charge for entry.
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New CaSE Members
| | CaSE is pleased to welcome the following new members:
For further details on becoming an organisational member of CaSE please contact our Member Liaison, Dave Hawksett. |
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Interns
| | | We would like to thank Samantha Gan for her help over the last few months as a CaSE intern. She has worked on a number of projects and led on the work examining the potential impact of House of Lords reform.
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| Other issues that CaSE is working on |
- VAT. Universities are being increasingly asked by Ministers to share services: for instance, back-office functions, libraries, or technical equipment. Unfortunately, whenever they do engage in such sharing, they have to pay 20% VAT on the transaction to HM Treasury. The HE White Paper should recognise that promoting a sense of community across academia should be a VAT-exempt activity.
- House of Lords Reform. CaSE is looking at how reform of the House of Lords might impact upon science and engineering policy-making.
If you wish to feed into any of the above policy areas please get in touch. |
| Upcoming Events and Consultations |
- Science and the Northern Ireland Assembly
6th June
This event is designed to raise the profile of science and to bring together the science, engineering and technology community in Northern Ireland to discuss the best way to take forward the science agenda over the lifetime of this Assembly. Find more details here.
- Understanding and influencing the Scottish Parliament
16th June
Imran Khan will be speaking at this event organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Biology at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
You can register here.
- Consultation on allocation method for postgraduate research funding
HEFCE Consultation
Deadline: 20th June
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