On 2nd of December, DIRDI hosted our first London Fellows dinner of the 2025/6 year, gathering scientists, economists, industrial leaders and Visiting Fellows from Whitehall under the warm lights of the Polish Club in South Kensington. With wreaths on the walls and the faint scent of mulled wine drifting from the foyer, the evening had …
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DIRDI entered the 2025/2026 academic year with our first dinner held in the Fellows’ Dining Room at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Hosted by Dr Gareth Conduit FDIRDI, a Fellow of the College, the dinner saw lively and convivial discussion between scientists and policy experts. During the dinner, speeches were given by: Professor Alexander Piotrowski …
As part of DIRDI’s Easter Term calendar, we hosted two dinners at The Polish Club, Ognisko, in London. Both events were well attended by a diverse group of Members and Fellows representing leading UK Universities, elements of Industry, Government, and the Armed Forces. As events that are intended to cohere and introduce Fellows from differing …
On the 27th of March 2025, DIRDI’s Impact and Invention Conference returned to Durham, held at Durham University’s Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics. We welcomed delegates from 8 different universities: Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland, York, Cambridge, Oxford, and King’s College London; as well as a host of innovative spin-out companies. Introductory remarks on DIRDI and …
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Thursday 13th February saw DIRDI host Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Andrew Burns CB OBE FDIRDI at our laboratory in Durham. We were honoured to host the Admiral as part of his 3-day visit to the Northeast, and the programme included: DIRDI Fellow Dr Oliver Vogt, Industrial Tutor in the Department of Engineering at Durham University presenting …
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DIRDI Kicked off the New Year with a Dinner in our “Spiritual Home” at Hatfield College, Durham on 16th January 2025. Senior academics from Durham, and other Universities including Cambridge and Sunderland, joined us in the SCR Dining Room at Hatfield College. We were honoured to also welcome Mr Nigel Vaughan FDIRDI from QinetiQ as …
The 11th of December saw DIRDI’s final event of 2024, a special and Inaugural Dinner co-hosted by the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW) and The Durham Institute of Research, Development, and Invention (DIRDI). The event was hosted at University Church, Oxford: the primordial heart of the University, where lectures first …
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DIRDI Hosts its first london Dinner at the In & Out Club, London In 2024, DIRDI has begun implementing the vision of establishing a national “brains trust” across elite UK Universities. To welcome some of our new Fellows from universities in London, Oxford, and Cambridge we have expanded our events accordingly to new geographic locations. …
DIRDI was delighted to host Members and Fellows for a presentation by Professor Leah Morabito FDIRDI on 6th November 2024. The talk, entitled ‘High-Resolution Imaging at the Lowest Frequencies: Technical Advances Driving Science’, provided an in-depth exploration of Leah’s recent work in astronomical imaging. We welcomed a number of academics from the Departments of Physics, …
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On Tuesday, 10th September 2024, DIRDI’s first event of the 2024/2025 academic year took place and the first ever DIRDI event to be held outside of Durham. At Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, the Insitute was privileged to host 22 distinguished Members and Fellows from a wide array of institutions, including the Universities of Oxford, …
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