At three minutes to midnight on Thursday, Cambridge City Council got round to discussing the impact of proposed cuts to university funding on Cambridge. By the time the item, towards the end of their full council agenda, was reached many Liberal Democrat councillors had gone home and even the mayor, who was chairing the meeting [...]
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Research Funded by the UK Taxpayer Should be Published in Open Access Journals - Click for Full Article
Friday, September 18, 2009
Results published on the 9th of September 2009 from the European Youth Heart Study (EYHS), by the Medical Research Council in Cambridge are not openly available.
The UK public fund a large amount of scientific research, both though the research councils and via scientific work conducted by public bodies. Many results of [...]
Who Owns Science? - Click for Full Article
Thursday, November 13, 2008
“Who Own Science” was the title of a free public lecture given by Sir John Sulston in Cambridge on Wednesday 5th November. Sulston was giving the Cambridge Philosophical Society’s Honorary Fellows Prize Lecture for 2008. The title had been borrowed from the opening of “The University of Manchester’s Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation” at [...]