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These pages were designed, well, cobbled together, by Michael Kenward on behalf of the ABSW.

Background reading

The Association of British Science Writers and The Royal Society of London hold regular briefings for writers. These deal with topical issues where it is important to have informed scientific input. After each meeting, the Society commissions a science writer to produce a briefing document that summarises the event.

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You can retrieve text files of a number of reports, or read them on line. Most are on this site, while newer reports reside on the web pages of The Royal Society.

Contact Lynn Staff, Public Programme Officer
tel: 020 7451 2576 email: lynn.staff@royalsoc.ac.uk

What's available

	Computers, language and speech (Text) Meeting in September 1999, distributed February 2000
	Generation and regeneration (PDF) (Text) Distributed January 2000
	Catalysis (PDF) (Text) Meeting in May 1999, text distributed November 1999
	Insecticide resistance - from mechanisms to management October 1998
	Ancient molecules and human prehistory June 1998
	The future of genetic screening September 1997
	Ageing: science, medicine and society September 1997
	Land resources: on the edge of the Malthusian precipice? December 1996
	Evolution on islands October 1996
	Human genetics - uncertainties and the financial implications ahead This is not an ABSW/RS report, but it was written up in the same way by an ABSW member who has produced some of the briefing documents listed here. September 1996
	Materials for electrochemical power systems May 1996
	Nitric oxide: from menace to marvel of the decade May 1996
	Mad cow disease Royal Society press release and statement on BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. April 1996
	Saner views of schizophrenia September 1995
	Evolution of social behaviour patterns in primates and Man August 1995
	Inside the Earth June 1995
	Cosmology: what astronomers don't know but are no longer afraid to ask June 1995
	Radiation: science and medicine May 1995
	Why aren't we all bacteria? April 1995
	Consciousness: its place in contemporary science March 1995
	AIDS research: crisis what crisis? March 1995
	Nanoscience: the forerunner of nanotechnology December 1994

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Association of British Science Writers

Background reading

Computers, language and speech (Text) Meeting in September 1999, distributed February 2000

Computers, language and speech (Text)
Meeting in September 1999, distributed February 2000