Research and policy making: Professor Brian Collins

The below video features the opening keynote speech from Professor Brian Collins, Director of the Centre for Engineering Policy at UCL and former Chief Scientific Advisor to two government departments (Transport 2006-11; Business Innovation and Skills 2009-11). Professor Collins covered a wide range of issues, including the Haldane principle (the idea that research funding should be …

Launch of Circling the Square blog- the idea, rules for posting and schedule

We are pleased to launch the official, post-conference blog for Circling the Square. On 20th-22nd May 2014, a conference by that name was held in Nottingham, which generated a multitude of posts and comments across the blogosphere. So why a new blog? And why so late? First of all, we are presenting the full talks …