Science and Politics: building bridges

Dundee West MP Jim McGovern recently visited the Medical School as part of the Royal Society's Science in Society programme, aimed at building bridges between politicians and the UK's top scientists.

Mr McGovern is paired with Dr Judith Sleeman, a Royal Society University Research Professor. Dr Sleeman has already spent a week at Westminster shadowing the MP, sitting in on select committees and finding out how science policies and issues at a parliamentary level.