Resources

  • ReSourcE Winter 2012

    The Winter 2012 issue of ReSourcE features articles on the 2012 RSE Christmas Lecture with London Olympics Gold Medal winner Katherine Grainger, Scottish astronomy public lectures and an article on the 4th annual programme of Scottish Crucible. Also included is an article on the International Exchange Programme; a recap of the RSE@ Locahber Programme 2012-13; […]

  • ReSourcE Autumn 2012

    This issue of ReSourcE features articles on the RSE ‘From Maxwell to Higgs’ exhibition; the Young Academy of Scotland on its first anniversary; the visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh and the RSE Royal Medal ceremony; RSE awards available; the RSE’s response to the Scottish Parliament Finance Committee’s consultation on the Draft […]

  • ReSourcE Summer 2012

    The Summer 2012 issue of ReSourcE features articles on the Best of Scottish Science at the Edinburgh International Science Festival; the RSE International Exchange Programme; the RSE Entrepreneurs’ Club; RSE prizes 2012; the Island Universe Tour; RSE Advice and Briefing Papers on Women in STEM, A Referendum on Independence and The Learned Societies’ on Scottish […]

  • 100 years later | A history of the RSE building

  • Security, insecurity, paranoia and quantum mechanics

    A James Scott Prize Lecture delivered by Professor Stephen Barnett.

  • Infrastructure costs too much and it needn’t

    Terry Hill offers a critical examination of the costs involved in infrastructure.

  • Extreme light – a new paradigm for fundamental physics

    The extreme characteristics that are provided by today’s extreme light laser offer a new paradigm to Fundamental Physics for the investigation of the deeper strata of matter

  • A celebration of women in astronomy

    Professor Bell Burnell focuses on the contributions to modern astronomy made by some unsung and under-sung female astronomers of the last 100 years.

  • ReSourcE Spring 2012

    The Spring 2012 issue of ReSourcE features an announcement of our new 2012 Fellows; Advice and Briefing Papers on the Scottish Government’s Renewable Energy Targets for 2020, Commercialisation of Research, Putting Learners at the Centre and Alcohol Minimum Pricing. Also included is an update on the RSE International Exchange Programme; listings of public and schools […]

  • The appliance of science in the rural sector of Scotland

    Professor Gordon outlines how working in close partnership with the rural sector, scientists can help inform how ?land is used.

  • The Arab Spring: tropes and discourses

    This lecture examines media representations of the Arab Spring, inter-Arab political rivalries and ?Islamist phobia.

  • Communicating science as culture

    Aubrey Manning spoke of the beauty and elegance of science and argues that it is very much part of culture – like a poem or a piece of music.

  • Reflections on Hong Kong and China

    14 years after sovereignty over Hong Kong was returned to China, Lord Wilson of Tillyorn considers the effect on Hong Kong and the wider world.

  • Facing up to climate change

    Lord Turner and Professor David Sugden discuss what the challenges are relating to climate change and what the future may hold.

  • Nation, town, memory – Krakow experience

    The extraordinary history of Kraków, once “the spiritual capital of a country that did not exist” and now a cosmopolitan city at the centre of Europe.

  • Radiation and reason – straight and open thinking about choosing nuclear

    Professor Wade Allison explains why nuclear technology may be welcomed and used carefully to benefit the environment for the future without fear.

  • Energy: Opportunities and Challenges

    The lecture considers the opportunity to realise Scotland’s renewable energy potential and examines the more general theme of low carbon technologies and energy infrastructure.

  • Preventing cancers of the breast and colon by how we choose to live each day

    Professor Tim Byers summarises the ways in which nutritional factors increase cancer risk and how the choices we make can prevent it.