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Our dedicated policy team, working with our members, wider community and expert partners, provide authoritative and robust information to shape current debates.
Whether maximising the effectiveness of research and education, or facilitating policymakers to use scientific information, our goal is to shape the development of policy relevant to the chemical sciences.

Response to the Future Research Assessment Programme
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Review of Net Zero: call for evidence
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Revised TWI for PFAS: rationale and consequences
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Risk-based approaches and precautionary control
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Risk-based regulation for EDCs
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Risk-based regulation for PFAS
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RSC position on mobility and immigration
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RSC response to the HoC 'Diversity in STEM' inquiry
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Science budget and industrial strategy
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Science research funding in universities
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Science to enable sustainable plastic
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Scottish innovation strategy consultation
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Secondary school teachers’ deployment
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Senedd inquiry on post-EU funding arrangements
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Shaping the future of chemistry in higher education
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