Dear all,
the UK Government has issued a Green Paper, "Building our Industrial Strategy",
and the Royal Astronomical Society is considering whether to put in a response.
The paper can be downloaded (132 pages - pdf) from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/586626/building-our-industrial-strategy-green-paper.pdf
It has a deadline for individual comments of 17th April 2017. Individual
comments can be submitted to:
https://beisgovuk.citizenspace.com/strategy/industrial-strategy
If you think the RAS should prepare a response and you would like to suggest items
for inclusion, please let me know, in very good time so that the RAS can
take your suggestions into account in its response.
A quick search on the document does not yield either "geophysics" or "geophysicist"
although it includes plans for major infrastructure projects and energy
strategy that will require input from our science. There is a fair bit about
increasing skills in STEM, but I can't find the word "inspir*" (inspire,
inspiration) which is surely something geophysics should be able to do
to encourage more people into STEM.
I should be delighted to receive comments; and you might want to look
at it for your own interest, i.e. with your own future as a geophysicist in mind,
since some form of it will end up being part of the government's default
strategy for geophysics.
Regards,
Sheila Peacock,
list co-owner, and on Council of Royal Astronomical Society.
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