Opinion

Posted by: Kathy Grenville
Date posted: 30.08.2019

Our digital media intern, Kathy Grenville, questions the effectiveness of recent bans on single use plastics and looks at innovations in science seeking to save our environment from plastic pollution

Posted by: Shaun Fitzgerald
Date posted: 10.12.2018

Our Director, Shaun Fitzgerald, has spent his whole career trying to tackle one of the root causes of climate change – mankind’s use of energy. Here he talks about what we can do to prevent climate change and recommends some future events on the subject.

Posted by: Gail Cardew
Date posted: 27.07.2017

The Ri's Gail Cardew on why the work of the Lloyds Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk links with the Ri’s objective to encourage people to think more deeply about the place of science in their lives.

Posted by: Gail Cardew
Date posted: 18.07.2017

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The Ri's Gail Cardew proposes that there are more similarities than there are differences, between science and art.

Posted by: Gail Cardew
Date posted: 17.02.2017

The Royal Institution joins 45 leading science organisations in a letter to European policy makers to highlight that an open exchange of people and ideas is crucial for science.

Posted by: Gail Cardew
Date posted: 22.07.2016

Gail Cardew, Professor of Science, Culture and Society, discusses the importance of positioning science at the heart of culture ahead of the EuroScience Open Forum.

Posted by: Masterclass participant Coral
Date posted: 11.02.2016

Cheney school student Coral fills us in on how she's been inspiring other young people to get involved in STEM enrichment since taking part in Mathematics Masterclasses.