Hi all,
Join us in London for a lively, free panel debate on the current status of science spending in the UK on the evening of Monday, 27th February.
Cancer kills a third of us, and yet we spend less than £3 per person per year on public-funded cancer research. We spend less than 0.5% of the amount we spend on energy on research to make energy cheaper and greener. And discovering the Higgs boson literally cost peanuts: our subscription to the CERN lab is approx £1.50 per person per year - the same as the UK peanut market.
So why do we spend so little on science, and what should we do about it?
You’ll hear from:- Naomi Weir – Deputy Director of CaSE
- Jonathan Adams – Chief Scientist at Digital Science
- Andrew Steele – Computational Biologist at The Francis Crick Institute
- Jennifer Rohn – University College London / Science is Vital
- Mike Galsworthy – Founder of Scientists for EU
- Susannah Maidment – University Brighton
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