Category Archives: Policy Issues
IOP fellow new Welsh Chief Scientific Adviser
Professor John Harries, Professor of Earth Observation at Imperial College London, has today been named the first Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales.
Professor Harries, who won the Institute of Physics (IOP) Charles Chree Medal and Prize in 1999 and is an IOP fellow, is expected to take up his new post in May in order to [...]
Northern Ireland’s science education ‘artery’ assessed
Northern Ireland’s Assembly and regional businesses needs to work together to revitalise the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)’s education ‘artery’ to ensure the future economic prosperity of the region, says a new report commissioned by the Department for Education and the Department for Employment and Learning.
The Report of the STEM Review makes a wide [...]
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New group tackles physics communication
Professor Sir William Wakeham, the University of Southampton’s Vice-Chancellor and chair of last year’s RCUK Review into the Health of UK Physics, spoke at the inaugural meeting of the Institute of Physics (IOP)’s new Communicators Group to provoke thought among physics communicators about how best to present physics to the young and the influential.
Repeating themes [...]
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Physicists needed for Renewable Energy Strategy to work
The Institute of Physics (IOP)’s Chief Executive has today, Thursday, July 16, written to editors in response to news of The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)’s publication of the UK Renewable Energy Strategy, to say “in a nutshell, if you want to save the world, do physics!”.
The new Energy Strategy confirms the UK’s [...]
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