Ehsan Masood is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT for 2017/18 where he is investigating the impact of the McCarthy purge on US academics and universities.
From 2009-2017 Ehsan was the Editor of Research Fortnight and prior to that he worked as writer and editor on the staff of Nature and New Scientist. From 2001-2003 he was Director of Communications for the Rockefeller Foundation funded leadership development programme called LEAD. Ehsan has made several documentary programmes for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. His most recent outing was a programme called Science: Right or Left, which explored why centre-right audiences are losing trust in the scientific consensus. He is the author of a number of books, most recently The Great Invention (Pegasus, 2016) which tells the story of how GDP became the world’s economic indicator of choice, and Science and Islam: A History (Icon, 2017). Ehsan also teaches a short masters-level course in science and innovation policy communication at Imperial College London.orts critical thinking among British Muslims.
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Sessions
| Session | Plenary session: Running a research university in an era of austerity politics and laissez faire economics. Sponsored by WorkTribe |
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| Room | Pentland |
| Time | 09:30 - 11:00 |
| Date | Wednesday 6th June, 2018 |
| Style | Plenary |
| Speakers |
Ehsan Masood - Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology David Goldston - Director of the MIT Washington Office Shearer West - Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Nottingham |
| Session | Global Leadership Summit (not included in INORMS fee) |
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| Room | Fintry |
| Time | 10:00 - 17:00 |
| Date | Monday 4th June, 2018 |
| Style | Plenary |
| Speakers |
Ehsan Masood - Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rebecca Endean - Strategy Director UK Research and Innovation Norifumi Miyokawa - Senior Research Administrator, Hiroshima University Sukanya Kumar-Sinha - Deputy Director, RCUK India Christina Miller - Director, UK Research Office (UKRO) Xerxes Mazda - Director of Collections, National Museums Scotland |
