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Member news SCI news Say hello, wave goodbye Jack Melling Chair of the SCI Board of Trustees
As detailed in October’s C&I, our current Executive Director, Joanne Lyall, is leaving SCI at the end of November to return to New Zealand with her family. I would like to thank Joanne for her contribution to the development of SCI and wish her all the best for the future.
I am delighted to announce that Dr Juliet Corbett has been appointed as SCI’s new Executive Director. Juliet is an experienced people manager with
strong technical and economics skills. Her diverse career spans 30 years in the private, public and voluntary sector, mainly in the fields of science and energy, and has been characterised by a strong personal commitment to the promotion of science. She has worked, since 2006, with the Utility Regulator in Northern Ireland and also the Northern Irish Department for Enterprise Trade and Investment on market development, economic regulation and energy policy development. Juliet’s early aspirations and career were in
research and she trained as a physicist, doing her BSc, Masters and PhD at Queen’s University Belfast and lecturing at the University of Ulster. She joined the Central Electricity Generating
Board as a researcher and from the early days got involved in links between the company and local schools and colleges: a theme which would be repeated throughout her career. After several years, Juliet became fascinated with what drives organisations and moved into the commercial side of the business, then Nuclear Electric, doing an MBA with the Open University to
Event preview Forum bookings open
Remember to book your place for the 2013 Members’ Forum, which will take place on 19 November at the Royal College of Surgeons in Holborn, London. This members-only event gives you the opportunity to express your views and ideas on how SCI can move forward, propose new projects and initiatives, and continue to deliver its charitable objectives of connecting science with business for public benefit. You will also have the opportunity to hear the progress which is being made from the ideas raised at last year’s forum.
The full programme for the day is now online and includes breakout sessions for members to contribute their ideas, a dedicated poster viewing session, poster prize presentation and a canapé reception at the Royal College of Surgeons’ Hunterian Museum.
Book online now via
www.soci.org/events, email
communications@soci.org or call +44(0)20 7598 1586. This event is open to SCI members only. Reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed on request.
underpin this. She was selected for the company’s ‘cadre’ or fast track development scheme, acting as an ambassador for nuclear power, ultimately being appointed Business Manager of Wylfa Magnox Nuclear Power Station – the first woman to be appointed to an operational role in the UK nuclear industry.
Moving back to Ireland in the late 1990s, Juliet worked in a number of areas including managing the Northern Ireland Business Education Partnership, a charity whose objectives were to promote and fund programmes to bring business and education, including academia, closer together. Her expertise in the energy sector was harnessed when she was appointed by the regulator as manager responsible for implementing the Single Electricity Market on the island of Ireland. Juliet is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and has headed several committees and spent two spells on its council as well as chairing the Institute of Physics in Ireland. She has worked with the IOP and associated academic and scientific institutions to promote diversity and build links between business and education and is delighted to be able to dedicate herself full time to this area again in developing SCI’s unique role and contribution to science and the economy. Juliet will take up her appointment from
1 January, 2014 and in the meantime will come to SCI for handover meetings and for the SCI Board meeting on 27 November. During Joanne’s absences on leave in parts of November and during the interim period in December, SCI Directors Hamza Ali and Tony Ramgobin will be jointly Acting Executive Director.
What you’re saying online
General online forum showcases SCI Members’ Forum 19 November 2013 – agenda announced “Join us on 19 November at the Royal College of Surgeons for the SCI Members’ Forum. The full agenda has now been announced and you will see there are plenty of opportunities to get involved and have your say about how SCI can support you now and in the future.” Cambridge online forum highlights Re: Cambridge Museum of Technology visit “We were given a fascinating tour of the museum. The star attractions are the two huge Hathorn Davey steam powered pumping engines, which were installed in the main engine house in 1894, and are still operational, thanks to the industrious volunteers. They are beautifully maintained. It really feels like a temple to steam, or a ship’s engine room.”
www.soci.org/forums
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Lecture – Spectacular Chemistry Demon- stration, Cambridge, 7 Nov https://www.
soci.org/General-Pages/Display-Event. aspx?EventCode=CAGE071113 More #Chemistry #Innovation Technol-
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A New Age for #Coal with #Carbon
Capture and Storage, #London, 7 Nov,
www.soci.org/Events/Display-Event. aspx?EventCode=SEG400 Seligman Fellow Matteo Bosi reports
on reducing #waste in #wine-making
www.soci.org/News/Awards/Seligman/ Bosi3 Thanks to those who attended Physi- cal Principles of Lipids in #Food Products and Health. Papers now online www.
soci.org/News/Lipids/Physical-Principles
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