Ian Taylor, Chair of the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, on the need to commercialise key technological advances and maintain the UK economy’s competitiveness.

Ian Robinson, an immigration law partner at Fragomen Worldwide, discusses the current balance of Government immigration action in the face of Brexit.

Seamus Nevin, Head of Policy Research at the Institute of Directors, discusses skills shortages and ineffectual immigration policies in the UK

Jillian Sequeira on this weekend’s March for Science and the importance of funding scientific research and creating evidence based policy

Dr Lindsay Walker, Dr Lindsey Pike, Marsha Wood, and Dr Hannah Durrant on the need for researchers and policy decision-makers to work better together.

Joanna Cox and Ciaran Molloy of the Institution of Engineering and Technology discuss their recent workshop on the Irish border and Brexit

Sir John Holman, author of the Gatsby Foundation’s Good Career Guidance report, discusses the importance of effective careers guidance

Andy Forbes, principal of the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London, talks about diversity in STEM apprenticeships

Dr Katie Perry, Chief Executive at the Daphne Jackson Trust, on the benefits of diversity and inclusion in STEM.

Philippa Matthews, Inclusion and Diversity Programme Officer at the Royal Society of Chemistry, sheds light on the gender gap in chemistry

Drawing on research and experience, Lenna Cumberbatch explores some of the small things that can be done to move towards equality of opportunity in STEM

Eleanor Beal, Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society, sets out the findings of the Society’s latest report on UK research infrastructures.