Media Briefing: 22 September to 12 October 2018

Institution in the news

The Press Office launched Engineering Out Fashion Waste, which received widespread national coverage in the Daily Mail, The Independent, iNews, Sky News, The Sun, The Telegraph and 29 local radio shows.

Dr Jenifer Baxter appeared on BBC Inside Out discussing the implications of Euratom for the nuclear industry and authored a blog on reducing plastic waste.

A helicopter which received an Engineering Heritage Award was featured on Escape to the Country. Another Engineering Heritage Award featured on local radio, as did a Health and Safety Expert from the Institution who discussed calls to tighten regulations around the safe use of inflatables.

Matt Rooney responded to the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the action needed to limit climate change to within 1.5°C and also to Labour’s energy policy.

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