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Science Policy Support Group
The Science Policy Support Group Ltd (SPSG) contributed to UK science policy between 1986 and 2003. SPSG was set up by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), with the initial support of the other Research Councils, to organise programmes of research and information on issues of science and technology policy identified as of strategic importance. Description Its main means of operation was through defining, developing, seeking funding, and managing research programmes, bringing together scholars from a variety of institutions and disciplines, initially across the UK but later at European level. Themes included Defence Technology Management and Dual Use (co-funded by the MoD – leading to a European defence technology network), Academic Industry Relations (leading to the Triple Helix theory of innovation and the stream of activity organised by the Triple Helix Association ), understanding the European Context for UK Science Policy, and Public Understanding of Science, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Economic And Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), formerly the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) funded by the UK government. ESRC provides funding and support for research and training in the social sciences. It is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. History The ESRC was founded in 1965 as the ''Social Science Research Council'' (SSRC - not to be confused with the Social Science Research Council in the United States). The establishment of a state funding body for the social sciences in the United Kingdom, had been under discussion since the Second World War; however, it was not until the 1964 election of Prime Minister Harold Wilson that the political climate for the creation of the SSRC became sufficiently favourable. The first chief executive of the SSRC was Michael Young (later Baron Young of Dartington). Subsequent holders of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Williams (professor)
Sir Roger Williams is a Welsh academic. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Reading from 1993 until 2002, and chair of Higher Education Funding Council for Wales from 2002 to 2008. He received a knighthood in June 2006 for his services to Higher Education. Background and early life Roger Williams was born in South Wales and grew up near Merthyr Tydfil, where he was educated at Tredegar Grammar School. He continued his studies at Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms w ..., where he became an Honorary Fellow in 1999. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Welsh scholars and academics Vice-Chancellors of the University of Reading Knights Bachelor People from Merthyr Tydfil Alumni of Worcester College, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Lloyd (UK Politician)
Sir Ian Stewart Lloyd (30 May 1921 – 25 September 2006) was a British Conservative Party politician. Born in South Africa to wealthy English parents, he worked as a civil servant in the SA Board of Trade before moving permanently to England. He served as a backbench Member of Parliament for constituencies near Portsmouth nearly 30 years, from 1964 to 1992. He took an interest in African issues, shipping, and technology, and spoke about the dangers of global warming as early as 1989. Early and private life Lloyd was born in Durban in South Africa, the son of Walter John Lloyd and his wife, Carmen Craig Stewart Murray. Ian Lloyd's great-grandfather, Capt. Walter Lloyd (1823–1878), had emigrated from his native Wales to the British colony of Natal, as it then was, in the middle of the nineteenth century; the Lloyd family's ancestral home, Coedmore, is situated in Cardiganshire. Ian Lloyd was educated at St. John's Preparatory in Johannesburg, at Michaelhouse in Natal, and at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ziman
John Michael Ziman (16 May 1925 – 2 January 2005) was a British-born New Zealand physicist and Humanism, humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was a spokesman for science, as well as a teacher and author. Ziman was born in Cambridge, England, in 1925. His parents were Solomon Netheim Ziman and, Nellie Frances, née Gaster. The family emigrated to New Zealand when Ziman was a baby. He obtained his early education at Hamilton High School, New Zealand, Hamilton High School and the Victoria University College. He obtained his PhD from Balliol College, Oxford and did his early research on the theory of electrons in liquid metals at the University of Cambridge. In 1964 he was appointed professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, where he wrote his ''Elements Of Advanced Quantum Theory'' (1969) which explains the rudiments of quantum field theory with an elementary condensed matter slant. During this period, his interests shifted towards the ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamic Steady State
A geomorphological system said to be in dynamic steady state has values that oscillate between maxima and minima around a central mean value. The flux of sediment from an undisturbed drainage basin changes over the short-term as rainstorms come and go, individual hillslopes fail in mass movements, and riverbanks collapse. Over the long-term, the flux of sediment from a drainage basin oscillates around a mean value, producing a dynamic steady state, unless there are significant changes in boundary conditions such as climate, vegetation cover, or uplift rate.Bierman, P. R., Montgomery, D. R. Equilibrium and Steady State. Key Concepts in Geomorphology (2014) W. H. Freeman and Company Publishers 41 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010. www.whfreeman.com Equilibrium The concept of balance, or equilibrium, between landforms and geomorphological processes provides a useful conceptual framework to study the evolution of landscapes, as well as understanding nonequilibrium landforms and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |