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Morning all Some of you may be interested in this event taking place on Friday lunchtime at UCL. You can register at www.surveymonkey.com/s/sci-culture-UCL<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sci-culture-UCL>. Similar events are taking place in universities throughout the UK in coming weeks, see http://nuffieldbioethics.org/research-culture/research-culture-research-culture-discussion-events for more info. Best wishes, Sarah Walker-Robson Communications Manager Nuffield Council on Bioethics 28 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3JS Phone: +44 (0)20 7681 9619 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Lunchtime discussion Calling all scientists whats it like being you? Friday 20 June 2014 12.00-12.30 Sandwich lunch (Darwin Building, Rooms B05 and B15, UCL) 12.30-2.00 Discussion event (Medical Sciences and Anatomy Building, Room 131 A V Hill LT, UCL) Access to both venues via Malet Place, off Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE What motivates scientists and what pressures are they under? What effects are funding and publishing systems having on the production of high quality, ethical scientific research? Are current methods for assessing the quality of science working? Is competition in science a good thing? Express your views on these and other questions at a discussion event organised by University College London in collaboration with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The event is part of a nationwide-project to gather views and encourage debate about how the different features of the UK research environment are affecting, both positively and negatively, the work and behaviour of scientists at all stages of their career. The findings of the project will be published and presented to policy makers towards the end of 2014. This is your chance to contribute. Chair: Jonathan Montgomery Professor of Health Care Law, UCL; Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics; and Chair of the Health Research Authority Panel: Geraint Rees Professor of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, UCL Philip Campbell Editor, Nature Giovanna Tinetti Professor of Astrophysics, UCL The event is open to anyone and is free to attend but please register in advance. Register for the event: www.surveymonkey.com/s/sci-culture-UCL<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sci-culture-UCL> Find out more about the project: nuffieldbioethics.org/research-culture<http://nuffieldbioethics.org/research-culture> ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) signoff psci-com (to leave the list) Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************