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These resources are from RSE Fellows, members of the Young Academy of Scotland, RSE research awardees, and medallists. These resources do not necessarily reflect the views of the RSE but are an opportunity for those in the RSE community to share their expertise and updates in their work.

  • ReSourcE Spring 2019

    This issue of ReSourcE leads with news of our recent RSE@ Inverness event, Food for Thought, featuring, amongst others, RSE Fellow Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, founder of Genius Foods.

  • Start-ups: Unlocking Ambition

    A follow-up issue to Issue 22: Start-ups: Shaping Scotland’s Future, focusing on the entrepreneurs taking part in the RSE’s Unlocking Ambition programme, an initiative set up by the Scottish Government in 2018. The programme is designed to support highly ambitious entrepreneurs chosen for their individual potential, the quality of their ideas and the contribution they […]

  • ReSourcE Autumn/Winter 2018

    This issue highlights the RSE Awards Summer reception and the new RSE Unlocking Ambition Enterprise Fellowships. In addition, there are details of an event in the RSE@ Inverness programme and of the coming education conference in January 2019. There is also news of some of our Fellows, as well as information about the RSE Young Academy of Scotland, an international case study and recent Policy Advice papers.

  • ReSourcE Summer 2018

    This issue highlights several events which involved RSE Fellows over the last few months, as well as news about recent activities in the Awards, Policy, Events, International and Outreach teams, and the Young Academy of Scotland.

  • ReSourcE Spring 2018

    Featured in this first issue of our newsletter in 2018 is news of the Triennial Dinner held in January 2018, in honour of our outgoing President, Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE; the Guest of Honour at the Dinner was Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, an Honorary Fellow of the RSE.

  • ReSourcE Winter 2017

    This issue highlights the RSE Enterprise Fellowships, the Science and the Parliament and the RSE @Inverness programme.

  • ReSourcE Autumn 2017

    The Autumn issue features the challenges and opportunities of Brexit and the RSE’s visit to China. It also announces a £52k legacy received, a special portrait of RSE ‘grandfather’ Colin Maclaurin and announces a 2018 Pharmacology celebratory event.

  • Biodiversity: Spotlight on Scotland

    Scotland’s biodiversity science: uniquely special and leading edge

  • ReSourcE Summer 2017

    The highlight in our Summer issue is news of the visit by our Patron, Her Majesty The Queen to present the RSE Royal Medals for 2017.

  • The Cosmic Detectives

    How scientists in Scotland helped discover gravitational waves

  • ReSourcE Spring 2017

    Our first newsletter for 2017 contains a full list of this year’s new Fellows, which includes His Royal Highness Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge, and violinist, Nicola Benedetti.

  • ReSourcE Winter 2016

    The Winter 2016 edition of ReSourcE contains the usual roundup of our activities, plus features on the RSE Christmas Event 2016 at Dynamic Earth with Helen Sharman; a Young Academy of Scotland project on the movement of people fleeing war, persecution, famine and other dangers; a feature on Diamond Light Source, the UK’s synchrotron; and […]

  • ReSourcE Autumn 2016

    This edition of ReSourcE features articles on how the detection of gravitational waves has helped in the development of the growth of 3D bones; a new funder for RSE Enterprise Fellowships; RSE comments on the implications and opportunities of Brexit and the Scottish Government’s delivery plan for Education. Also included are pieces on the growing […]

  • ReSourcE Summer 2016

    Highlights in the Summer 2016 edition of ReSourcE include: news of the Facebook purchase of company set up by former RSE Enterprise Fellow; appointment of RSE Fellow as new Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland; third event in a trilogy of discussion forums on biodiversity; RSE President’s portrait unveiled; plus updates on RSE publications, events, policy […]

  • Innovation Centres: Connecting the Future

    Here in the UK, we have some of the world’s top universities. Alongside the US, our leading institutions dominate all the league tables for high-quality research; but unlike the US, our economy doesn’t rate particularly well in applying this innovative research and development (R&D) to industrial applications – and in the process creating wider economic […]

  • The RSE Young Academy of Scotland

    The Royal Society of Edinburgh launched the Young Academy of Scotland (YAS) in November 2011, to bring together the country’s most dynamic young leaders. It is the only Young Academy in the UK and is based on a model developed by the national academies in Germany and Holland. Although it has become part of a […]

  • ReSourcE Spring 2016

    The Spring 2016 edition of ReSourcE contains a roundup of activities, plus features on: the Crawick Multiverse; RSE Enterprise Fellowships; the Glasgow Science Festival; the new Young People’s YouTube channel, Quiz-a-Whiz; the Enlightening the European Debate series; and the recent DHI/Young Academy series on the Politicians and the Professionals. Read ReSourcE Spring 2016 (2MB, PDF)

  • ReSourcE Winter 2015

    Highlights in the Winter 2015 edition of ReSourcE include: details of three exciting events that ran in November; our Christmas lecture in Dundee Caird Hall with stampylongnose; news about Science and the Parliament; RSE comments on the BBC Charter Review and GM Crops; latest news of Fellows in action and Fellows honoured; details of recent […]