About the Policy Centre

The Policy Centre is founded on all organisations holding a stake in the successful development of research communications being able to reflect on and adhere to a set of common principles as set out in our report “Research and the Scholarly communications process: Towards strategic goals for public policy”, published in March 2007.



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Blogs

British Library talk (topical) science

An opportunity to hear the Government Chief Scientific Advisor on communicating risk and scientific advice in emergencies was always going to be a draw. But I don’t think even the BL Science Team could have anticipated how painfully topical yesterday’s Talk Science event would be. As we waited for Sir John Beddington, understandably delayed, there was a strange tension in the room. Sixty-odd people trying very hard to reconcile their excitement at getting the inside scoop on an unfolding news story with the horrible cost of recent events in Japan.



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