BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX The Environment Agency is a public body which focuses on the protection and enhancement of the natural world. It is required by Government to achieve sustainable development in the UK, and the Agency's remit encompasses pollution prevention and control, flood defence, waste management, fisheries, navigation, water quality, water resources, and conservation. It employs ab...
Could you be a nanotechnologist without realising it? Chances are that, if you work at the molecular level, your skills could find application in this up-and-coming field. You just need to think in a slightly different way. Dr Duncan Graham usually defines himself as a colloid scientist, but "for the purposes of today my research interest is nanoparticles", he declared at a meeting held at the Ro...
The beginning of the 21st century has seen the largest percentage of women in the UK workforce--a record 45% in 2000, with 68.9% of working age women in employment, according to labour force statistics. Yet women in science, engineering, and technology (SET) disciplines are not faring as well. As the academic grade gets higher, more and more women drop out of science, with percentages thinning ou...
Last week, about 160 early-career scientists from a wide range of disciplines met with members of the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee. The meeting took place in the splendid surrounding of the Geological Society and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) headquarters in central London. The delegates, from industrial and academic backgrounds and as far afield as St. Andrews and ...
