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On Monday 10 June 2019, YAS member Dr Theodore Koutmeridis has been awarded the RSE Henry Duncan Medal. The RSE President Professor Dame Anne Glover presented the medal during the President’s Summer Reception at The Royal Society of Edinburgh. According to the RSE, Dr Koutmeridis…

Wikipedia is the largest open knowledge resource in human history. This free, online, multilingual encyclopaedia is one of the most popular sources of information worldwide. However, Wikipedia has significant gaps in the topics it covers. Currently, less than 18% of biographies on the platform are…

This event has now finished.  Read the draft Charter for Responsible Debate and learn more about this project here. Democracies pride themselves in allowing space for free political discussion as a way of peacefully working out compromises for how to live together in the context…

New programme brings together MSPs and young researchers and professionals to promote evidence-based policy solutions A group of young researchers and professionals will enter Holyrood today as part of a new pairing scheme which encourages constructive relationships between policymakers and emerging leaders from across Scotland’s…

YAS member Dr Alaa Hamdon has detailed the work being done by YAS and partners at University College London and Book Aid International to rebuild and restock Mosul University Library on BBC Radio 4’s live arts programme, Front Row. Mosul University, where Alaa researches and…

Siobhán O’Connor, a Lecturer in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh, represented the Young Academy of Scotland and the Royal Society of Edinburgh recently at Voices of the Future 2019. This event offered young research leaders the opportunity to discuss the future of science policy…

by Kate Walker, Young Academy of Scotland Co-Chair This piece originally appeared in the Spring 2019 edition of the RSE’s quarterly newsletter, ReSourcE.  You may download this newsletter here. In early February, some 17 academics from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Turkey…

Our parent academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), today announces the addition of 62 new Fellows from the worlds of business, science, creative arts, health, technology, law, public engagement and international development. We are delighted that seven current and former members of YAS are…

by Silvia Paracchini, Jess Enright, Heidi Burdett, and Emilie Combet In December, the Young Academy of Scotland (YAS) turned their eyes to plastics, in line with their “Sustainable” theme. In a snap Twitter campaign, members explored what each of us could do, focusing on a…