The Foundation for Science and Technology publishes the FST Journal three times per year, with articles based on the main evening events held by the Foundation. The Journal is distributed to over 1500 senior influencers in Government, Parliament, industry and the research community, as well as being published online. It is edited by Dr Dougal Goodman OBE FREng, Vice-President of the Foundation.

ISSN 1475-1704 (Print)
ISSN 2756-0619 (Online)

  • July 2012

Volume 20, Issue 9

This issue of FST Journal includes reports of debates on making science work with Sir Paul Nurse, Sir John Beddington on food security, and Andy Haldane from the Bank of England on failure of the bank system.

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This issue of the Journal includes reports of debates on research and innovation funding, the strategy for research and innovation, career paths for women in STEM, monoclonal antibodies and Arctic development.

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  • December 2011

Volume 20, Issue 7

This edition of the Foundation journal has been published and includes papers on engineering, Further Education and skills, mental health, public data, government procurement, ecosystem valuation and emergency preparedness and science advice.

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  • July 2011

Volume 20, Issue 6

This issue of the FST Journal has been published and reports on meetings on the funding of research, the nuclear accident in Japan, the digital revolution and its impact on Scotland and the future for biofuels in the UK.

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  • April 2011

Volume 20, Issue 5

Volume 20 Issue 5 of the journal has been published and includes reports of debates on risk management, statistics in government, research collaboration, energy and behaviour and sustainable cities.

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  • November 2010

Volume 20, Issue 4

Volume 20 Issue 4 of the journal has been published and includes reports of debates on the importance of science to society, Technology Innovation Centres (TICs), science education, the future for high speed rail and water in the developing world.

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  • April 2010

Volume 20, Issue 3

This issue of FST Journal Reports in the latest issue of the journal are on astronauts, engineering and society, innovation, digital Britain, climate change and Scotland, critical infrastructure, synthetic biology and the role of learned societies.

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  • December 2009

Volume 20, Issue 2

Reports on higher education strategy, low carbon transport, putting a value on biodiveristy, the strategy for medical research, cities and science, financial models and a lecture on brain imaging techniques for babies.

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  • October 2009

Volume 20, Issue 1

Reports on defence technology, statistical advice, energy technologies, assessing risk, wellbeing and the work of the Select Committees on science and technology. Also an obituary for Sir John Maddox FRS, the former editor of FST Journal.

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  • April 2009

Volume 19, Issue 10

Reports on Lord Drayson's challenge to the science community, innovation in the Scottish economy, food security, the Wakeham Review of physics research funding and obituaries for Sir Hugh Laddie and Sir Dick Morris appear in this issue.

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