Events

The Foundation organises events on key topics in science, research, technology or innovation, bringing together parliamentarians, civil servants, industrialists, researchers, learned societies, charities and others. Those events focus in particular on areas where there are policy decisions needed, which in turn need to be informed by this wide range of inputs and viewpoints. Summary reports are prepared for all events, and these - along with presentation slides, videos of speakers and audio files - are available online after events.

03Jun

The Review of Post-18 Education and Funding

2019

The Prime Minister announced a major review of post-18 education, advised by an independent panel led by Philip Augar, in February 2018. At this meeting, Philip Augar presented outcome of the review and other speakers from higher and further education discussed its potential implications.

24Apr

The Two Cultures: Sixty Years On

2019

This event was held to mark the 60th anniversary of the famous Rede Lecture by CP Snow in which he used the term “two cultures”, describing the divide between sciences and humanities. The speakers and panellists explored what unites, and divides, research across the sciences and humanities in 2019. To what extent has the divide described by Snow changed in the subsequent decades?

06Mar

Delivering the Government's Maritime 2050 Strategy - the vision for science and technology

2019
Dinner, Discussion

The Government published its Maritime 2050 Strategy, Navigating the Future, on 24 January 2019. The strategy sets out a number of strategic ambitions for the UK, including clean maritime growth; the development of new maritime technologies such as autonomy; education and training; regulation; and investment. This event explored the new strategy and how science, technology and innovation can help deliver it over the next three decades.

16Jan