Tag: people

We have opened an invitation to comment on a strategy for UK biotechnology and biological sciences – you can find the details of how to respond to the questionnaire on our website. […]

In my last blog, I highlighted some of the excellent examples of frontier bioscience that I heard about at the Human Frontiers Science Programme awardees meeting in Lisbon in July. I felt it appropriate that for this blog I bring this closer to home and here I reflect on some of the frontier bioscience research that BBSRC has recently supported. […]

Over the past few weeks I have thought a lot about leadership – particularly how we can best develop the next generation of leaders across science and what is needed to encourage and support this development. […]

Awareness of the importance and benefits that derive from equality, diversity and inclusion have increased in recent years – and this is very welcome. However, I was alarmed to read that the World Economic Forum predicted in their 2015 Global Gender Gap Report that at current rates of progress it will take another 169 years to close the gender gap – which is far, far too long. In response, the 2017 International Women’s Day campaign theme is #BeBoldforChange. This campaign is calling on each of us, irrespective of gender, to take bold action to accelerate progress towards gender parity and a better working world. […]

Food has been hitting the headlines in the past week or so warning us of shortages in various vegetables – particularly courgettes, iceberg lettuce and peppers – with subsequent jumps in the price of such produce and even rationing by some supermarkets. This example, albeit modest in my book, highlights the fragility of our food supply chains by providing yet another demonstration of how extreme weather events – in this case snow in southern Spain – can impact the supply of food stuffs we take for granted. […]