Foundation for Science and Technology

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The Foundation for Science and Technology podcast - exploring issues of science, technology and innovation with experts from government, parliament, industry and the research community.

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Simone Mordue and Beth Chamberlain - The impact of climate change on birds
Aug 12, 2026
Hannah Russell - Public attitudes to science
Jul 27, 2026
Dr Sameh ElBadry - Evidence at the heart of decision making
Jul 22, 2026
Saul Klein - the UK's innovation ecosystem
Jul 20, 2026
Professor Tyler Kelly - LGBTQ+ in STEM and meaningful allyship
Jul 03, 2026
Liz Wainwright - What is AI for science?
Jun 02, 2026
Sean Smith - Could plant based molecules offer solutions for pesticide use?
May 27, 2026
Nick McKeown - How do we build an AI chip design industry in the UK?
May 15, 2026
Jenny Chapman and Annie O'Brien - How does science shape policy?
May 08, 2026
Joaquin Perez-Grande - How space science helps us to problem solve on Earth
Apr 24, 2026
Professor David Patterson and Dr Mark James - Interdisciplinary action for our oceans
Apr 01, 2026
Rory Daniels - The UK robotics industry
Mar 09, 2026
Dr Kath MacKay - Life sciences in the UK
Mar 02, 2026
Professor David Nutt - The science behind substance and addiction
Feb 23, 2026
Liz Shutt - Harnessing the power of research and evidence to support regional policy
Feb 04, 2026
Mehwaesh Islam - the future of UK Research and Development
Dec 01, 2025
Rachel Cutting - Fertility trends and treatment in the UK
Nov 24, 2025
Professor Sir Peter Knight and Dr Robert Lock - Quantum and what the future holds
Nov 03, 2025
Dr Helen Coulshed - Academia and the learning experience
Sep 29, 2025
Louise Shooter - The human aspect of net-zero targets
Sep 08, 2025
Jon Saltmarsh - NetZero and changing our homes and buildings
Aug 08, 2025
Dr Katie Perry - Returning to a career in research after a break
Jul 25, 2025
Harry Macpherson - chemical toxicity, human health and the global ecosystem
Jul 15, 2025
Dr Monali Dahale - Advanced composite materials
Jun 23, 2025
Lexie Papaspyrou - STEM career barriers faced by lower socio-economic groups
May 20, 2025
Antoinette Nothomb - The paint that captures carbon
May 12, 2025
Dr Adam Berlie - muon science and what jazz guitar can bring to STEM
May 02, 2025
Gavin Costigan - working at the intersection of Government and the research ecosystem
Apr 15, 2025
Dr Jacqueline Campbell - climate, clouds and space science
Apr 08, 2025
Robert Hill - Northern Ireland's space technology industry
Apr 01, 2025
Dr Claire Thorne- Women in Tech
Mar 25, 2025
Linda Benedik - Engineering Biology as a Critical Technology
Mar 18, 2025
James Adeleke - Careers in STEM for young people, regardless of their background
Mar 14, 2025
What does equity and diversity look like in STEM? - Lauren Thomas-Seale and Sam Islam
Feb 04, 2025
Opportunities and regulation of AI - Yann Sweeney
Jan 24, 2025
Wendy Jarrett - Understanding animal testing in the UK
Jan 06, 2025
Dr Jill Zhao - Progress and barriers to low carbon living in the UK
Nov 22, 2024
Sarah Chaytor - Connecting research and policy
Nov 22, 2024
Professor Nathalie Pettorelli - Why it’s key to connect the climate and biodiversity crises
Nov 22, 2024
Charles Harris - Protein folding and machine learning
Nov 06, 2024
Nicole Brown - Disability and STEM
Oct 04, 2024
Rachel Youngman - social justice and science
Sep 27, 2024
Professor Sir Peter Knight - Quantum Technologies
Sep 17, 2024
Professor Hatef Sadeghi - All things Quantum
Sep 09, 2024
Professor Rameen Shakur - Precision and personalised healthcare
Sep 02, 2024
Clara Nörenberg- Building a solar powered car
Jul 03, 2024
Loretta Napoleoni - Technocapitalism: risks and trust
Jun 10, 2024
Seamus Garvey - Energy storage and the road to net zero
May 15, 2024
Pascal Gatabzi - Science in Rwanda
May 03, 2024
Dr Doyin Odubanjo - The changing face of science advice in Africa
May 02, 2024
Professor Remi Quirion - INGSA - the International Network for Government Science Advice
Apr 30, 2024
Dr Katharina Lederle - The science of sleep
Apr 29, 2024
Professor Jack Stilgoe - Driverless vehicles
Apr 15, 2024
Dr Geoffrey Neale - Not all plastics are created equal
Apr 10, 2024
Professor Gianluigi Botton- the Diamond Light Source
Apr 05, 2024
Warrick Matthews, Tokomak Energy - Nuclear Fusion in the UK
Mar 27, 2024
Toju Duke - Responsible and diverse AI
Feb 23, 2024
Dr Melanie Garson - Cyber policy and tech geopolitics
Feb 16, 2024
Lord Tim Clement-Jones - Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Feb 09, 2024
Jor-El Benjamin, entrepreneur and founder of Kryotech - Digital privacy, equity and AI
Feb 02, 2024
Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak - Innovation in healthcare and in the NHS
Jan 12, 2024
Stephanie Baxter - Institution of Engineering and Technology
Dec 06, 2023
Beatrice Barleon - Engineering and Technology Apprenticeships
Nov 17, 2023
Stewart Edmondson - UK Electronics Skills Foundation
Nov 01, 2023
Professor Clive Badman - Healthcare Technologies
Oct 13, 2023
Professor Jackie Akhavan - Defence Chemistry
Oct 04, 2023
Dr Marion Slater - Healthcare in Rural and Remote Scotland
Sep 25, 2023
Professor Adam Sobey - The Alan Turing Institute and Data-Centric Engineering
Sep 15, 2023
Dr Leslie Kanthan - TurinTech and AI
Sep 07, 2023
Professor Sir Jim McDonald - Scottish Innovation Strategy
Jul 19, 2023
Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill - Research Integrity
Jul 06, 2023
Paul Mason - Innovate UK
Jun 23, 2023
Chris Holmes - The Alan Turing Institute
Jun 13, 2023
Ian Croston - Coherent
May 23, 2023
Scott White - Pragmatic Semiconductor
May 11, 2023
Rachel Oliver - Semiconductors
May 05, 2023
Pedro Lourenco - Digital Transformation
Apr 28, 2023
Lord Adair Turner - Mission Zero, Getting to Net Zero by 2050
Mar 21, 2023
Helen Walker - ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Mar 08, 2023
Ben Bleasdale - Discovery Decade
Feb 28, 2023
Jenny Holloway - Technology in the Fashion Industry
Feb 16, 2023
David Phoenix, LSBU Group - Technical Education and Technical Skills
Feb 09, 2023
Hilary Leevers - Technical Education and Technical Skills
Feb 02, 2023
Bernadine Idowu - Black Researchers in UK Science and Technology
Dec 07, 2022
Paulette Williams And Mike Sulu - Leading Routes
Nov 30, 2022
Dr Diego Baptista - Research and Funding Equity at Wellcome Trust
Nov 23, 2022
Sigourney Bonner - Black in Cancer
Nov 16, 2022
Simon Andrews - Fraunhofer UK Research
Nov 08, 2022
Jo Trigg – 'National Engineering Day'
Nov 02, 2022
Peter Marsh - Hardtech manufacturing in the UK
Oct 26, 2022
High Value Manufacturing - Katherine Bennett
Oct 20, 2022
Matthew Burnett - Science Superpower
Aug 04, 2022
Scenarios for a Science Superpower - Professor Graeme Reid and Professor Sarah Main
Jul 07, 2022
Dr Giles Campion and Professor Sir Gordon Duff - regulatory regime for clinical trials
Jun 30, 2022
Dr Doug Parr - UK Energy Strategy
Jun 23, 2022
Dr Mina Golshan - Sizewell C and new nuclear power
Jun 17, 2022
Professor Paul Monks - Science Advice in BEIS
Jun 09, 2022
Ashita Anand - Heat Pumps
May 26, 2022
Professor James Wilsdon - Interdisciplinary Research
May 19, 2022
Dr Karen Salt - Trusted Research and Innovation
Apr 28, 2022
Prof Hugo de Burgh - Media and journalism in China
Apr 21, 2022
Vivienne Stern - UK/China University Collaboration
Apr 14, 2022
Dale Sanders - R&D Collaboration with China
Apr 07, 2022
Dr Iliana Portugues - Rebuilding the electricity grid
Mar 24, 2022
Nick Winser - Rebuildig the electricity grid
Mar 03, 2022
Dr Matthew Godwin - UK/Isreal research collaboration
Feb 24, 2022
Dr Kate Devlin - Artificial Intelligence
Feb 17, 2022
Professor Sarah Main - Science and research policy issues in 2022
Feb 10, 2022
Sir Ian Diamond - The work of the ONS during the covid pandemic
Feb 03, 2022
Dr George Dibb - Tecnnology and Economics
Jan 27, 2022
Kevin Sabin - Technology and skills in the UK mining industry
Dec 16, 2021
Kevin Sabin - Technology and skills in the UK mining industry
Dec 16, 2021
Dr Paul Bate - UK Space Strategy
Dec 09, 2021
Professor Sir Charles Godfray - COP26: Where do we go from here?
Dec 02, 2021
Baroness Young - COP 26 - where do we go from here?
Nov 25, 2021
Anna Hopkins, Dr Sarah Foxen & Dr Kathryn Oliver - Science Advice in the UK
Nov 18, 2021
Amar Bhardwaj - US-UK COP26 Youth Working Group
Nov 11, 2021
Dr Helen Pain - Role of chemistry and the RSC in addressing societal issues
Nov 04, 2021
Sir Martin Sweeting - Space Technology and the UK Space Strategy
Oct 21, 2021
Paul Stein - The UK Innovation Strategy and the view from business
Oct 14, 2021
Professor Mark Spearing - The UK Innovation Strategy & UK Universities
Oct 07, 2021
Dr Alice Bunn - the role of engineering in addressing global issues
Sep 30, 2021
Rory Miles - University/business interface
Jul 08, 2021
Professor Jeremy Watson - Systems Approach to Net Zero
Jul 01, 2021
Professor Rebecca Lunn - Systems Approach to Net Zero
Jun 24, 2021
Hindsight perspectives - Louise Sanger
Jun 17, 2021
Dr Alex Brogan - biotechnologies for sustainable manufacturing
Jun 10, 2021
Professor Keith Bell - Systems approach to Net Zero
Jun 03, 2021
Impact of Diamond Synchrotron - Isabelle Boscarro-Clarke and Neil Brown
May 27, 2021
Biodiversity and the G7 - Professor Yadvinder Malhi
May 20, 2021
Regional Policy and R&D - Sarah Chaytor, Grace Gottlieb and Graeme Reid
May 13, 2021
Dr Stephanie Wray - Biodiversity
May 06, 2021
Professor Dame Wendy Hall - AI Road Map
Apr 29, 2021
Maria Tazi - Regulating the internet
Apr 22, 2021
Professor Marcel Jaspars - Science and research issues for the Scottish Parliament election
Apr 15, 2021
Rameen Shakur - AI and medicine
Apr 09, 2021
Flo Sharman - Mental Health
Mar 25, 2021
Kate Day - Mental health of children and young people
Mar 18, 2021
Professor Louise Arsenault - Mental health of children during lockdown
Mar 11, 2021
Monika Jephcott - Effect of lockdown on mental health of children and young people
Mar 04, 2021
Richard Halsey - hydrogen technologies
Feb 25, 2021
Sinead Lynch - Hydrogen Technologies
Feb 18, 2021
Professor Pericles Pilidis, Hydrogen powered aircraft
Feb 11, 2021
Professor Dame Anne Johnson - President of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Feb 04, 2021
Rachel Coldicutt - UK ARPA
Jan 28, 2021
Phil Smith - UK ARPA
Jan 21, 2021
Julia Pyke - Prodution of Hydrogen from nuclear reactors
Dec 10, 2020
Dr Robert Hoyle - Medical Radioisotopes
Dec 03, 2020
Paul Feldman - Online teaching in higher education
Nov 26, 2020
Professor Tansy Jessop - Online higher education
Nov 19, 2020
Stephanie Smith - Research policy
Nov 12, 2020
Priya Guha - the innovation ecosystem and UKRI
Nov 05, 2020
Lizzie Crowley - Skills resilience
Oct 29, 2020
Professor Gerry McKenna - R&D in Northern Ireland
Oct 22, 2020
Stephen Phipson, MakeUK - Skills resilience
Oct 15, 2020
Dr Stuart Fancey - The R&D Roadmap and implications for research in Scotland
Oct 08, 2020
Professor Richard Jones - R&D Roadmap and Levelling Up across the UK
Oct 01, 2020
Dr Michael Short - Science and evidence in international trade
Sep 24, 2020
Professor Judith Petts CBE - University teaching during Covid-19
Sep 17, 2020
Tom McNeil, Strategic Advisor to the West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner
Sep 10, 2020
Professor Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society
Sep 03, 2020
Chi Onwurah MP - Science and Politics
Jul 10, 2020
Julia Sutcliffe - BAE Systems
Jul 02, 2020
Professor John Loughhead - companies emerging from coronavirus lockdown
Jun 25, 2020
Darren Jones MP - business and coronavirus
Jun 11, 2020
Professor Lenny Koh - International supply chains post-Coronavirus
Jun 04, 2020
COP 26 - Peter Betts
May 28, 2020
Professor Rachel Mills - Coronavirus and the environment
May 21, 2020
Natural Environment Research Council - Professor Duncan Wingham
May 14, 2020
Developing hydrogen technologies in the UK - Baroness Brown
May 07, 2020
Social sciences, humanities and the British Academy - Hetan Shah
Apr 30, 2020
Baroness O'Neill - Ethics and rights in the Covid-19 and digital world
Apr 24, 2020
University policy engagement - Stephen Meek
Apr 16, 2020
Science Journalism - Pallab Ghosh
Apr 09, 2020
The 2.4% R&D Target - Dr Sarah Main
Apr 02, 2020
Coronavirus - Professor Paul Hunter
Mar 12, 2020
Coronavirus in developing countries - Dr Mishal Khan
Mar 06, 2020
International Research Collaboration - Professor Günter Stock
Feb 27, 2020
Joanna Burton - International research collaboration
Feb 20, 2020
Huawei Interview - Michael Hill King and Philip Candice
Feb 13, 2020
Professor Louise Kenny - International Research Collaboration
Feb 06, 2020
Facial recognition technologies - Professor Carsten Maple
Jan 30, 2020
Biometric technologies - Mathew Ryder QC
Jan 23, 2020
Carly Kind - Facial recognition and biometrics technologies
Jan 16, 2020
Dr Hayaatun Sillem - Diversity & Inclusion in Engineering
Jan 09, 2020
Sharing our health data - Dr Natalie Banner
Dec 17, 2019
Digital Health Data - Dr Nicole Mather, IBM
Dec 16, 2019
International research collaboration - Professor Graeme Reid
Nov 28, 2019
Industry and drones - Pae Natwilai
Nov 21, 2019
Professor Tom Scott - drone technology
Nov 14, 2019
Drones - interview with Elaine Whyte
Nov 07, 2019
Chris Whitty - Chief Medical Officer
Oct 31, 2019
Battery technology - Interview with Professor Clare Grey
Oct 24, 2019
Battery technology - Interview with Graeme Purdy
Oct 16, 2019
Battery Technology - Interview with Neil Morris
Oct 10, 2019
Battery technology - interview with Jacqui Murray
Oct 03, 2019