Knowledge Quarter partner, The Francis Crick Institute, identifies ‘Accelerating Translation for Health and Wealth’ as one of the five key priorities of the institute overall strategy ‘Discovery without Boundaries’. Practicing this ambition has opened new fascinating fields for both academic research and scientific translators.
Knowledge Quarter partner, Bertha DocHouse is delighted to announce their new community initiative: 5 B 4 5 – great documentaries, any daytime screening, Monday to Thursday, £5 before 5pm!
The Growing Places Fund is used to support projects that are strategically important to London’s growth, where its impact can be recaptured, repaid after time, and reused to fund new projects in other parts of London. All bids should be submitted by 5pm on 21 October 2015.
Shape the Future is the collaborative project to develop the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals’ (CILIP) Strategic Plan for 2016-2020. The project consists of an open consultation that runs between the 25th September and the 16th December 2015.
Knowledge Quarter is delighted to announce the launch of the book ‘Cities, Museums and Soft Power’ at the British Library on 8th of October 2015 at 18.30. This volume discusses soft power from the vantage point of museums and cultural institutions demonstrating how they are quietly changing the world.
Knowledge Quarter partner, The British Library, is delighted to announce the event ‘Marketing your Library’. For any library looking for new ways to engage with their users, please come and join this session as speakers explore ways to interact with library users, be that face to face or through your virtual library services.
During World Space Week 2015, the Institute of Physics (IOP) will lure Dr Lewis Dartnell, a UK Space Agency Research Fellow, to a tunnel in the depths of King’s Cross to talk about how physics is shaping our hunt for extra-terrestrial life.
Knowledge Quarter partners, School of Advanced Study (SAS) at the University of London and Wellcome Trust join in making the Being Human festival possible. Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities showcasing diversity within the humanities with an injection of creativity and festival fun.
Knowledge Quarter partner, NCUB, looking at the award winning UK charity FareShare as a successful example of business model. Fareshare fights hunger and food waste, rescue good food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it to people who need it, benefiting vulnerable people, helping the UK food economy and protecting the planet.
The Royal College of GPs is supporting the work of Jamie Oliver in calling for a sugar tax. Our diets, and those of our children, increasingly contain too much sugar – often concealed in drinks such as fruit juice and cereals, which can seem like the healthy option.