Dr Alan Belward, Land Resource Management Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission ‘Running out of Land – a new Global Challenge’ Monday February 10, 2014 UPDATE: please see below for event report. The annual SCRR Peter Wilson Lecture is given by Dr Alan Belward, Land Resource Management Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission. Land is […]

Professor Ian Boyd FSB, FRSE, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ‘The Evidential Basis for Food and Environmental Policy’ Thursday February 21, 2013 UPDATE: please see below for event report. The annual Peter Wilson Lecture will be given by Professor Ian Boyd FSB, FRSE, Chief Scientific Adviser on the

Prof Iain J Gordon, chief executive, James Hutton Institute ‘Appliance of Science in the Rural Sector of Scotland’ Monday February 13, 2012 UPDATE: please see below for event report. The annual Peter Wilson Lecture was given by Prof Iain J Gordon, chief executive of the James Hutton Institute. Prof Gordon outlined how scientists working in

Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University London ‘Food security and sustainability: One can’t make an egg without cracking some eggs’ Monday February 14, 2011 UPDATE: please see below for event report. The 2011 ECRR Peter Wilson Lecture was given by Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University London. Attention is focused on

Prof Jim McDonald, principal of the University of Strathclyde ‘Energy : Opportunities and Challenges’ Tuesday February 16, 2010 Venue: Royal Society of Edinburgh, George Street, EH2 2PQ Professor Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, Principal, University of Strathclyde gave the 2010 ECRR Peter Wilson Lecture on the topic of energy. The lecture considered and quantified the opportunity

Professor John Beddington, UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser ‘Global Challenges in a Changing World’ Tuesday February 17, 2009 Venue: Royal Society of Edinburgh, George Street, EH2 2PQ Professor John Beddington, UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, gave the 2009 ECRR Peter Wilson Lecture. The lecture, organised jointly with the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Institute

Professor Geoffrey Boulton, professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh ‘Science, Innovation, Education: The Challenge to Society’ Tuesday February 12, 2008 UPDATE: please see below for event report. This year’s ECRR Peter Wilson Lecture is to be presented by Professor Geoffrey Boulton, Vice-Principal and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the University

Professor Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland ‘Does Science Matter?’ February 13, 2007 UPDATE: please see below for event report. At the 2007 ECRR Peter Wilson lecture in February 2007, Scotland’s first Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Anne Glover, posed the question: Does science matter? Her conclusion? In a word: yes! But her argument was,