The Royal Society
Peter Finegold FRSA has a diverse work experience spanning several organizations. From 2019, they have served as the Head of Policy - Education and Skills at The Royal Society. Prior to that, they worked at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers as the Head of Education and Skills from 2013-2019. Peter also founded and served as the Director of Isinglass Consultancy Ltd, an education, science communication, and publishing company, from 2005-2016. Peter has held various roles such as Visiting Research Fellow in Education at The Royal Institution, Associate Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, and Director of Public Programmes at Nowgen (North West Genetics Knowledge Park). Peter also worked at The Wellcome Trust as a Senior Project Manager, leading the organization's education team and overseeing the development of their education policy research work. Peter has also held teaching positions, including as a part-time lecturer at City Lit and as the Head of Biology at Haverstock School London.
Peter Finegold FRSA completed their undergraduate education at Brighton Polytechnic from 1981 to 1984, earning a BSc Combined Science degree with a focus on Biology and Statistics. Peter then pursued further education at Trent Polytechnic from 1985 to 1986, obtaining a Postgraduate Certificate in Education with a specialization in Biology and Mathematics.
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The Royal Society
The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. The backbone of the Society is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists of the day, elected by peer review for life and entitled to use FRS after their name. There are currently more than 60 Nobel Laureates amongst the Society's approximately 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members. Throughout its history, the Society has promoted excellence in science through its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, which has included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking. The Society is independent of government, as it has been throughout its existence, by virtue of its Royal Charters. In 1663, The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge was granted its Arms and adopted the motto "Nullius in verba", an expression of its enduring commitment to empirical evidence as the basis of knowledge about the natural world. The Society's activities include influencing science and education policy, funding leading researchers, publishing journals that span all the sciences and the history of science, and the provision of science communication activities for a variety of public audiences.