28/01/10 Dave Hawksett and Hilary Leevers met with Brunel University

28/01/10 Keeping Engineering on the Agenda
In a blog on the New Scientist S Word website, Professor Hugh Griffiths, chair of the CaSE executive committee, argues that while science and engineering have many issues in common, it is important that politicians do more than just pay lip-service to the latter. He commented that “Science and engineering are tightly intertwined and depend on many of the same structures and principles - as do mathematics and other related subjects - typically dealt with under ‘science policy’. But it is important to recognise that there are specific issues for each area.”
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28/01/10 Setting a positive tone for Science and Engineering
This week’s Nature editorial urges scientists to repeatedly deliver a coherent pro-science message rather than fighting their corners against planned or anticipated cuts. It singles out CaSE for its collaborative work in the run-up to the election. As well as working behind the scenes for supportive policies for science and engineering, CaSE has organised a Cross-Party Science and Engineering Policy debate and will be writing to the party leaders asking them to set-out a positive science and engineering policy agenda. CaSE is also be building the resources available on this blog to track the relevant commitments of the different parties as well as allowing discussion of election issues that affect science and engineering.
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26/01/10 CaSE met with the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

25/01/10 CaSE met with the University of Oxford

21/01/10 CaSE met with Reform

21/01/10 CaSE met with the representatives from the Department of Energy and Climate Change Select Committee

20/01/10 General Election Meeting
CaSE members and collaborators attended a meeting at the CaSE offices to share and develop their pre-election activities.

18/01/10 Nick Dusic met with representatives from the Lords Science and Technology Committee

18/01/10 Nick Clegg on science
Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, today gave his first speech on science at the Royal Society, which CaSE attended. On the blog, Hilary Leevers analyses what the speech actually tells us about Liberal Democrat commitments to science and engineering in the run up to the election.
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15/01/10 CaSE met with EADS Astrium

15/01/10 Dave Hawksett and Nick Dusic met with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

14/01/10 Times Roundtable
Hilary Leevers attended a Times roundtable discussion at the Institute of Physics

13/01/10 Science and Engineering Debate
350 people attended the CaSE Science and Engineering Policy Debate between Lord Drayson (Lab), Adam Afriyie MP (Con) and Dr Evan Harris MP (Lib Dem) at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, chaired by Roger Highfield of New Scientist. They were joined by 150 people watching the debate online and a host of tweeters eager to join the discussion. Responding to questions from audience, the three speakers agreed and differed a on range of issues including research funding, education, innovation and scientific advice in government.

12/01/10 Academy of Medical Sciences
Professor Sir John Bell, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences, has outlined his vision for UK medical sciences on the CaSE Notes blog
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07/01/10 CaSE met with representatives from the Department for Business Innovation and Skills for an in depth discussion of the SET Statistics that they published at the start of December.
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07/01/10 CaSE with Sense About Science

06/01/10 CaSE met with Research Fortnight

06/01/10 CaSE met with Roger Highfield, editor of New Scientist

06/01/10 CaSE met with Hugh Bailey MP

05/01/09 Our latest blog post by Hilary Leevers argues that science and engineering issues need to feature in the run up to the General Election and outlines some of the work that CaSE is doing to achieve this. Voters need to know where the parties stand on science and engineering issues and prospective MPs need to become engaged with them before the successful ones enter Westminster.