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Calling all scientists: what's it like being you?

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An event organised by the University of Exeter in collaboration with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

  • 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 the University of Exeter 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 be published and presented to policy makers towards the end of 2014. This is your chance to contribute.

To find out more please visit the project website.

Programme

Time Activity Speaker
14.00 Light buffet lunch  
14.30 Introduction Professor Nick Talbot (Chair)
14.35 Short presentations

Professor Nick Talbot FRS, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Exeter.

Professor Tim Naylor, Norman Lockyer Professor of Astrophysics, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter.

Elizabeth Bohm, Senior Adviser, The Royal Society.

Professor Nicky Britten, Professor of Applied Health Care Research, University of Exeter Medical School.
15.05 Q&A session  
15.55 Closing remarks Professor Nick Talbot
16.00 End of event  

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Express your views on these and other questions at a discussion event organised by the University of Exeter in collaboration with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

Location:

XFi - Henderson Lecture Theatre