Sarion Bowers, Head of Policy at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, on the Institute’s role in tackling the Covid pandemic and what we can learn for the future.

Dr Catherine Pointer, from the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre in Southampton, talks about her appearance at Voice of the Future and her inspiration behind her work

Sarah Slaven, Interim Managing Director of Business Durham and the North East Technology Park, on what makes a successful science park.

At the end of his six year term as CaSE Chair, Professor Graeme Reid looks back on what the organisation has achieved and the challenges that still lie ahead.

Zoe Angel, Research Fellow at The Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at Queen’s University Belfast, outlines how Northern Ireland can capitalise upon the UK Government’s ‘Place’ agenda

Malcolm Scott, Corporate Development Officer at the Aerospace Technology Institute, on the hidden value that the UK aerospace industry can offer to boosting economic growth

Sir Adrian Smith, Institute Director and Chief Executive of The Alan Turing Institute, and Graeme Reid, Professor of Science and Research Policy at UCL, set out the findings from their new independent report on international partnership opportunities for UK research and innovation

Professor Luke Georghiou, Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Manchester discusses the distribution of R&D spend and the impact of raising R&D intensity in Greater Manchester and the North West

Dr Martin Turner, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at the BioIndustry Association, looks at what the new government could mean for the sector.

Dr Cat Ball, Senior Policy Manager at AMRC, talks about how medical research captures hearts and minds in the UK

Professor Peter Piot and Dr Marta Tufet outline how investments in international development research have transformed lives throughout history

Neil Jacobs from Jisc discusses how support for research infrastructure and big data can drive the UK forwards