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	<title>British Ecological Society&#187; Policy Internship</title>
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		<title>Policy Internship</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/04/24/policy-internship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Pilbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Policy Internship Applications are now open for our Policy Internship. Apply by 9 May 2013. The British Ecological Society, the UK’s learned society for ecology, has a vacancy for a paid intern to work in the science policy team for &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/04/24/policy-internship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Knowledge Exchange Course in London &#8211; Half Price for BES Members</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/03/06/knowledge-exchange-course-in-london-half-price-for-bes-members/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/03/06/knowledge-exchange-course-in-london-half-price-for-bes-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maya Project]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the BES can benefit from a 50 percent discount on a new knowledge exchange course, taking place at our headquarters, Charles Darwin House, London, on 20th May 2013. Run by two well respected researchers in the field of &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/03/06/knowledge-exchange-course-in-london-half-price-for-bes-members/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Contribute to the BES response to the Triennial Review of the Research Councils</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/02/13/contribute-to-the-bes-response-to-the-triennial-review-of-the-research-councils/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/02/13/contribute-to-the-bes-response-to-the-triennial-review-of-the-research-councils/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=3327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BES will respond through the Society of Biology to the UK Government’s Triennial Review of the seven Research Councils. The first phase is to consider the core functions of the Research Councils, to assess the need for these functions &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/02/13/contribute-to-the-bes-response-to-the-triennial-review-of-the-research-councils/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>BES Shadowing Scheme Open for Applications</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/01/31/bes-shadowing-scheme-open-for-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/01/31/bes-shadowing-scheme-open-for-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chief Scientific Advisor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BES Parliamentary Shadowing Scheme]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=3314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Applications are now invited for the annual BES Parliamentary Shadowing Scheme. The scheme has run each year from 2007 and provides an unprecendented opportunity for members of the Society to spend two days shadowing senior policy-makers in the UK and &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/01/31/bes-shadowing-scheme-open-for-applications/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Solutions to Global Environmental Change</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/01/28/sustainable-solutions-to-global-environmental-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/01/28/sustainable-solutions-to-global-environmental-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BES centenary]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=3297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 8-9 April 2013 the British Ecological Society (BES) and the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) will be hosting a major international scientific meeting, Global Change and Biosphere Interactions , as part of our centenary and celebrating the launch of &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2013/01/28/sustainable-solutions-to-global-environmental-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CSaP: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/12/05/csap-bridging-the-gap-between-science-and-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/12/05/csap-bridging-the-gap-between-science-and-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Policy Lunchbox]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=3259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where the relationship between scientists and policy-makers works, it is due to the existence of strong networks, but this relationship fails more often than it succeeds. This was one of the conclusions of a 2008 report from the Council for &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/12/05/csap-bridging-the-gap-between-science-and-policy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Checking the Progress of Government on the Natural Environment</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/11/29/checking-the-progress-of-government-on-the-natural-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/11/29/checking-the-progress-of-government-on-the-natural-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Owen Paterson MP]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=3240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government could try harder on the natural environment. That was the conclusion of &#8216;Nature Check 2012&#8242;, an overview of the Government&#8217;s progress against the commitments made in the Coalition Agreement, launched by Wildlife and Countryside Link, and endorsed by &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/11/29/checking-the-progress-of-government-on-the-natural-environment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Research Careers</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/10/17/the-future-of-research-careers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/10/17/the-future-of-research-careers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=3123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the one-off joint Education and Policy Lunchbox on 15th October (organised by the British Ecological Society, Biochemical Society and Society for Experimental Biology as part of Biology Week) our specially assembled panel and an audience of around 50 discussed &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/10/17/the-future-of-research-careers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the past: science-policy through history – Policy Lunchbox</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/09/13/lessons-from-the-past-science-policy-through-history-policy-lunchbox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/09/13/lessons-from-the-past-science-policy-through-history-policy-lunchbox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The role of science in informing policy-making is not a new phenomenon, as the research of Dr William Thomas, Junior Research Fellow at Imperial College London and speaker at yesterday’s Policy Lunchbox, reveals. There is a long history of various &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/09/13/lessons-from-the-past-science-policy-through-history-policy-lunchbox/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Government and Research Councils Set Out Open Access Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/07/16/government-and-research-councils-set-out-open-access-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/07/16/government-and-research-councils-set-out-open-access-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy_Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Government has today published its official response to the &#8216;Finch Report&#8217;, the output of a working group led by Dame Janet Finch that considered how to expand access to the published findings of research. To complement the Government&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/07/16/government-and-research-councils-set-out-open-access-policy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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