I love my job. I’m trying to understand how plants build themselves out of thin air. It’s exciting, it’s creative, it’s beautiful and on top of all that it’s important and useful. I like working with other people with different perspectives and I like the sharing of ideas and the piece-by-piece building of understanding from careful observation, experiment and analysis. (more…)
Even if many of the public at large are ambivalent, public discourse around GM is still highly polarised and the discussion is still seen to be ‘about GM’ – a narrative which seemingly hasn’t changed for 20 years. (more…)
Glasgow 20th-22nd October 2014 – outside, the edge of Hurricane Gonzalo whipping up the River Clyde; inside, talk of human rights exciting the delegates at the 24th annual conference of Alzheimer Europe. Candidly, I hadn’t really expected to be quite so excited by what I heard. Interested and stimulated, of course, but the excitement came from the repeated declarations that the rights of people with dementia needed now to be placed centre-stage. (more…)
Over this autumn school term, members of our Education Advisory Group are sharing thoughts and ideas based on their own experience of how bioethics and debate can be useful in education contexts. This post is written by Anneke Lucassen, Professor of Clinical Genetics and Honorary Consultant Clinical Geneticist at the University of Southampton and Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and Angela Fenwick, Associate Professor in Medical Ethics and Education at the University of Southampton. (more…)
Over this autumn school term, members of our Education Advisory Group are sharing thoughts and ideas based on their own experience of how bioethics and debate can be useful in education contexts. This post is written by Michael J Reiss, Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. (more…)
Over this autumn school term, members of our Education Advisory Group are sharing thoughts and ideas based on their own experience of how bioethics and debate can be useful in education contexts. This post is written by Andy Greenfield, Programme Leader in Developmental Genetics at the Medical Research Council Harwell, STEM Ambassador and Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. (more…)
Over this autumn school term, members of our Education Advisory Group are sharing thoughts and ideas based on their own experience of how bioethics and debate can be useful in education contexts. This post is written by Rebecca Ward, Head of Department for Religious Studies and Philosophy, Graveney School, Tooting (more…)
Over this autumn school term, members of our Education Advisory Group are sharing thoughts and ideas based on their own experience of how bioethics and debate can be useful in education contexts. This post is written by Chris Willmott, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Leicester and curator of the bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com site for sharing ideas about the teaching of bioethics.
Over this autumn school term, members of our Education Advisory Group are sharing thoughts and ideas based on their own experience of how bioethics and debate can be useful in education contexts. This post is written by Susan Meikleham, Science Education Coordinator at Glasgow Science Centre. (more…)
Over this autumn school term, members of our Education Advisory Group are sharing thoughts and ideas based on their own experience of how bioethics and debate can be useful in education contexts. This post is written by Annette Smith, independent consultant and former Chief Executive of the Association for Science Education. (more…)
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