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29th November 2013 Ottawa, Canada

Promoting UK development science in Canada

Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Andrée Carter, Director of the UK Collaboration for Development Science (UKCDS) to Canada. She came at our invitation, to participate in a panel entitled: The world in 2020: Three questions for internationalised science, at the Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC), held in Toronto.  She preceded her visit with a  short […]

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11th October 2012 Toronto, Canada

A preview of CSPC 2012

The 4th Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC), subtitled Building Bridges for the Future of Science Policy, will take place in Calgary between 5 and 7 November 2012. We have excellent UK representation this year, with speakers in two panels and SIN Officers in attendance: The Fundamental Research as a Driver for Long-Term Canadian Innovation panel […]

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12th November 2010 Ottawa, Canada

Louise Shaxson speaks to her experience @ CSPC

As some of you may already know (through being there and chatting, or by following our twitter feeds) several Science and Innovation Officers from the UKinCanada Science and Innovation Network were attending the Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) last week in Montreal.  It was an excellent event, for which the organization committee should be commended, […]

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12th November 2010 Ottawa, Canada

Guest Blog – Two UK Participants discuss their experience at the Canadian Science Policy Conference

It is with great pleasure that I publish our first written external guest blog (actually a co-guest blog, to be specific)! Louise Shaxson of Delta Partnership and Michelle Burns of Department for International Development discuss their experience at this years Canadian Science Policy Conference: Louise    Louise Shaxson running her session at the KTKB2010 workshop October […]

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9th November 2010 Ottawa, Canada

“Lipstick In School”: Thanks and a partial reflection on the Montreal KT/KB workshop

I’d like to introduce our next guest blogger, Alex Bielak, who in trying to leave a comment ended up writing us an entire blog posting!  Alex has been a fixture in the science communication world in Canada, both as an excellent communicator and writer himself, but also through his knowledge translation & knowledge brokering activities at the Environment […]

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