Future Events

The Institute of Biology Affiliated Societies Forum

 

 Climate Change and the Biologist

 

 Tuesday May 13th from 11am – 3pm

 

The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London

 

Please contact events@iob.org to reserve your place as soon as possible

 

Speakers include

 

Dr Hugh Montgomery the Director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance and presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year on Back from the Brink: the Science of Survival. He is also a children’s author and has written the Genie in the Bottle as part of Project Genie which aims to educate and engage young people in the climate change debate.

 

Sari Kovats a Lecturer in the Public and Environmental Health Research Unit of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Editor of the Department of Health update on Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK 2008.

 

Dr Andrew Stott Defra’s Head of Biodiversity and Landscape, Natural Environment branch with an interest in global biodiversity assessment systems.

 

Prof Katherine Willis Professor of Long-Term Ecology at the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford actively researching the relationship between long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental change.

 

Prof James Crabbe Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science at the University of Bedfordshire and has a long standing interest in modelling biological systems.

 

 

Past Events

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Workshop – developing the role for Professional Bodies and Learned Societies. 

This workshop was for member bodies and took place on Monday 7th April at the British Computer Society, The Davidson Building First Floor, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA from 9.30 to 1pm, followed by a light lunch and opportunity to network until 2pm.

 

Dr Robert Kirby Harris, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Physics chaired the workshop.  Speakers will included Dr David Evans, Director of Innovation at the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills; Prof Sir Brian Fender, Chairman and President of the Institute of Knowledge Transfer; and David Brown, Chief Executive Institution of Chemical Engineers.

 

The purpose of the workshop was two fold – to brief members on what government and others were doing in terms of developing an innovative economy, and secondly, to identify what role the Science Council or its member bodies might play. 

 

The presentations delivered during this workshop and a copy of the attendance list can be downloaded by clicking the appropriate links to the right of this page.

A report will be made available soon.

 

Lunchtime discussion - investigation into the proposed science and maths diploma

The PSP Consultancy has been commissioned by SCORE to undertake an investigation into the proposed science and maths diploma. 

The project aims to identify the sector’s expectations and concerns about the proposed Science and Maths Diploma. The investigation will include interviews with stakeholder groups and Diana Garnham, CEO of the Science Council, delivered a short session for Member Bodies.  This meeting was held at Loman Street on Thursday 27th March.

Lunchtime discussion - Race and the Professions

Robin Lynn from the Equality and Human Rights Commission brought members up to date on his work leading their Race for the Professions project.  This meeting took place on Wednesday 16th January 2008 at Loman Street, London SE1.

Workshop: Government and Parliamentary affairs Workshop

The Science Council organised a workshop on Government and Parliamentary Affairs which was held at the Science Council's premises on 12th November 2007.

The primary purpose of the event was to provide an update for the sector and to develop opportunities for co-operation and collaboration in working with government and Parliament.  

First Sir Gareth Roberts Science Policy Lecture

The first Sir Gareth Roberts Science Policy lecture was given by Ian Pearson MP, Minister for Science and Innovation.  Click here to read Ian Pearson's speech.

Sir Gareth Roberts, who died earlier this year, was the founding President of the Science Council.  Sir Gareth appreciated that the increasing interdependence of the physical and life sciences with mathematics and engineering called for a broader group of disciplines to come together to advance the role of science and scientists in building the future.  His commitment to creating a forum to enable this to happen led to the formation of the Science Counci.

The lecture took place on Tuesday 6th November 2007 at Glaziers Hall, 9 Montague Close, London SE1.