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Richard Gascoigne has a strong background in IT and management. Richard started their career as a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Geography at the University of Southampton in 1993. Richard then moved on to become the Faculty Network Manager at the University of Southampton from 1995 to 1997. Richard then joined Nuffield College as an Information Systems Manager from 1997 to 2007. Following this, they worked at Accord Consulting as a Technical Manager from 2007 to 2013. Richard then joined The Royal Society, where they served as the Head of IT from 2013 to 2020, and later as the Director of IT from 2020 onwards.
Richard Gascoigne attended Queen Mary University of London, where they graduated with a BA Hons in Human Geography. Richard also attended Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd and the University of Southampton, although no specific degree or field of study was provided for these institutions.
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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.