Congratulations to Alice König, who has been elected as co-chair of the Young Academy of Scotland for the calendar years 2019 and 2020.
The Young Academy of Scotland was formed in 2011 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to offer mid-career professionals a platform for tackling some of the most pressing social issues affecting Scotland and the world. Alice’s contributions so far have included collaborations with Scotland’s Futures Forum (the parliamentary think tank) looking into people’s aspirations for Scotland 2030; co-organisation of a series of activities to draft and promote a Responsible Debate Charter for Scotland; work with colleagues in the UK and Iraq to supply hard-copy books and e-resources to Mosul University’s Central Library, destroyed by ISIS in 2015; and contribution to a number of St Andrews-based events on schools outreach, interdisciplinary research, the future of Higher Education, and ‘time budgeting’ in the HE sector. She has previously served as a ‘Thematic Lead’ in YAS, supporting members’ activities and outputs around the theme ‘Smarter’; in her role as co-chair of YAS, she will be involved in developing the Academy’s strategy beyond 2020.
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