FST BLOG
We welcome blogs on issues across Science, Technology, Research and Innovation, and on the activities of the Foundation. To publish a blog on this site, please email communications@foundation.org.uk.
Note: The Foundation for Science and Technology is strictly neutral. Any views expressed in these blogs are those of the authors and not of the Foundation.
Science Policy and the long-term future of High Energy Physics
- 22 April, 2020
- General
- Conor Fitzpatrick
How do we define success in science policy, by the short term outcomes or what we can see 40 years down the line? Conor Fitzpatrick discusses the nuanced relationship in policy between long term investment and short-term outcomes in the High Energy Physics world.
Read MoreScience Policy at the Francis Crick Institute
- 15 April, 2020
- General
- Helena Brown
Science Policy bridges the gap between the research laboratory and the government. Helena Brown writes about the vital role of science policy, and how scientists are encouraged to engage at the Francis Crick Institute.
Read MoreThe double face of research in low and middle-income countries – facing the pandemic
- 8 April, 2020
- General
- Kirsty Le Doare
In the amidst of a pandemic, we must not forget the other health challenges that continue to face the world. Kirsty Le Doare writes about maternal and newborn infectious disease in low and middle- income countries in light of Covid-19.
Read MoreX marks the Pandemic
- 6 April, 2020
- General
- Alana Cullen
Disease X was prophesied by the World Health Organisation, and now it is here in the form of Covid-19. Alana Cullen discusses why pandemics are set to increase, and the story of Coronavirus.
Read MoreTo glove or not to glove: a timely history of hand hygiene
- 1 April, 2020
- General
- Dr Fay Bound Alberti
Gloves- a barrier to disease, or an emotional comfort when faced with disease? Dr Fay Bound Alberti discusses the history of hand washing and the role of gloves in medical history.
Read MoreOn the effect of Black Swans on projects
- 25 March, 2020
- Business
- Alan Mosca
Black Swan events happen infrequently but when they do, have a high impact. Alan Mosca explains the current risk analysis systems, and the potential for better ones which encompass these Black Swans.
Read MoreA Case for the Frequent Flyer Levy
- 16 March, 2020
- Environment
- Abu Jaffar-Latif
With the climate crisis growing, governments are having to debate ways to help cut their carbon emissions; and introducing a Frequent Flyer Levy could be the way forward.
Read MoreA positive case for Drones
- 2 March, 2020
- Technology
- Gavin Costigan
With all the bad press surrounding drones, Gavin Costigan explores the positive impacts they could have on society, with the right privacy and security regulations in place.
Read MoreFacial recognition technology, history and the meanings of the face
- 17 February, 2020
- Technology
- Dr Fay Bound Alberti
With facial recognition technologies being increasingly commonplace, Dr Fay Bound Alberti discusses the use of such technologies, the ethics surrounding them, as well as the historical relevance of the issues faced.
Read MoreTime to Let Go of the Two Cultures?
- 4 June, 2019
- Education_1
- Åsa Jansson & Ben Alderson-Day
Nineteenth-century philosopher and social theorist Auguste Comte famously proposed “that there is one kind of objective knowledge in the world, and that the natural sciences have shown in practice what it is” (Smith, 2007: 93). Would that it were so simple.
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