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RSE Annual Report and Accounts provide engage expertise promote 8 1 t 0 r o 2 p e - R inspire l 7 a 1 u n 0 n A 2 Contents President’s foreword . 2 Chief exeCutive’s introduCtion . 3 rse Annual report Aims and objectives . 4 Inspire . .5 Engage . .13 Provide Expertise . .19 Promote . .25 The RSE . .33 Financial Review . .36 summary Accounts Group statement of financial activities . 38 (incorporating the income and expenditure account) Balance sheets . 39 LegAL And AdministrAtive informAtion . 40 RSE Annual Report 2017 –2018 1 President’s Foreword I’m delighted to introduce the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s annual report for the year ended 31 March 2018. As my term as President commenced in April, I cannot take credit for the successes of that year, but would like to thank my predecessor, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her fellow Trustees for their careful stewardship of the organisation through a period of change. These changes included the departure at the end of May 2017 of our former Chief Executive Dr William Duncan after more than 30 years’ service, recognised by a celebration at the Fellows summer reception. Thanks are also due to Gordon Adam who ably stepped in as interim Chief Executive until Dr Rebekah Widdowfield joined us in September 2017. With these changes comes a chance for reflection on how best to progress the four development aims in our Strategic Framework. • Creating an active and more diverse fellowship • Enhancing our outreach and impact • Providing modern facilities to deliver our activities more effectively • Securing increased funding from a diverse range of sources The Council has agreed key priorities and these will begin to be implemented in 2018-2019. My hopes for my time in office are that the RSE will become more visible in Scotland and further afield, and that people, from school pupils to office workers, from academics to civil servants, would be aware of it as a ‘go to’ place and be interested in what we are doing, recognising the parts that are relevant to their lives. The RSE has the advantage of being a place that brings all sorts of people together and we will harness this so that the RSE is increasingly a place that reflects modern Scotland. Professor Dame Anne Glover FRS FRSE PRESIDENT 11 SEPTEMBER 2018 2 RSE Annual Report 2017 –2018 Chief Executive’s Introduction Following publication of the papers the We were also pleased, earlier this year, RSE and members of the working groups to sign a new outcome agreement with the have provided evidence to both the Scottish Scottish Funding Council, providing us and UK Governments and parliamentary with the necessary funding to enable us committees with a particular focus on the to deliver on our exciting programme of implications for research and immigration work and we are grateful to SFC for their policy post-Brexit. A couple of months continuing support. I also want to pay later, in September, we launched the latest tribute to the staff team for their hard round of our outreach programme RSE@, work and commitment to making the with RSE@ Inverness, a two-year RSE a success. programme of activities and events designed to enhance people’s understanding of their Much has been achieved over the last year, local community and environment. As but we are ambitious to do more, building part of this programme, in January, on these successes, to enhance our reach history and science combined to address and impact as Scotland’s National Academy. a longstanding mystery around whether Priorities for the coming year include: the remains of clan chief and Jacobite better communicating what we do and sympathiser, Lord Lovat ‘The Old Fox’ had making greater use of digital platforms; been unearthed. Watched by an audience making the RSE more visible and accessible of 450 people and live-streamed to over – providing more opportunities to come 35,000 electronic devices this event into our home on George Street and demonstrated both the reach of the RSE delivering more activity outwith Edinburgh; I am very pleased to present my first annual and the value of bringing together different developing our programme of engagement report as Chief Executive of the Royal disciplines and forms of knowledge. to reach new audiences and support a Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National wider dialogue with the public on key Academy. Finally, in November we celebrated 20 years issues; and exploring new opportunities of our Enterprise Fellowship Scheme which and partnerships to advance our mission One of the things that attracted me to the enables promising science and technology of making knowledge useful. RSE was a strong affinity with its mission: the researchers to develop into successful deployment of knowledge for public benefit entrepreneurs. Ground-breaking when it I hope you enjoy learning more about the or, in the words of our strapline, ‘knowledge was first established, the scheme recently work we do. I am hugely excited about the made useful’. We deliver on that mission in received a further boost when the Scottish year ahead and please do get in touch if a number of ways: through inspiring and Government funded the RSE to run an you would like to be involved and join us supporting young talent, engaging the public enterprise fellowship programme as part on the next leg of our journey. on key contemporary issues, providing of its inaugural Unlocking Ambition impartial advice and expertise and promoting Challenge. Scotland’s interests overseas. All this work is dependent upon both the This report provides an overview of our generosity of our Fellows – who give of activity over the past year. I’ve been hugely their time freely – and the diversity of their impressed, joining the RSE, to learn more knowledge and expertise. Unusually about the diverse work of the organisation among national academies, the RSE and I’d like to draw attention to a few Fellowship encompasses the breadth highlights of the 2017-2018 programme: of academic disciplines but also includes leading figures from business, the arts In July 2017 we published the first in a series of and the public and third sectors making advice papers on the implications of Brexit. us well-placed to engage and advise across Against a backdrop of often polarised views, a wide range of issues and, importantly, the RSE was well-placed to assemble expert to take a holistic approach harnessing the working groups covering the economy, diversity of expertise needed to address migration, research and the constitution to complex real-world issues. Dr Rebekah Widdowfield provide careful and considered analysis to CHIEF EXECUTIVE inform the debate and discussions about the 11 SEPTEMBER 2018 UK’s departure from the European Union. RSE Annual Report 2017 –2018 3 Aims and Objectives rse: Knowledge made useful RSE, Scotland’s National Academy, was established in 1783 for ‘the advancement of learning and useful knowledge’. Our contemporary mission remains the same – the deployment of knowledge for public good: knowledge that contributes to the social and economic well-being of Scotland and its people and the nation’s wider contribution to the global community. We deliver on this mission through our strategic objectives and impacts to: Inspire Engage Provide Promote Expertise inspire and support engage on key Provide expertise Promote scotland’s scotland’s most contemporary issues by to ensure that interests and promising young providing an scotland’s policy reputation on talent across the impartial forum makers and the global stage. research, business and for public debate influencers have public sectors, in order and discussion. access to the best to create value for the national, and indeed economy and society. global, expertise. Enhance research Enhance the public’s Inform and influence Raise Scotland’s capacity and contribution to and public policy. profile and strengthen its leadership in engagement with connections with the Scotland. contemporary national world. and global scientific, Strengthen Scotland’s cultural and cross-sector economic issues. connections and its ability to realise benefits from its research and innovation. 4 RSE Annual Report 2017 –2018 Inspire in 2017-2018 320+ Funding applications received. 42% of all applicants were female. 105 Awards made to over 20 institutions in the UK and beyond. 60% Of all applicants were early and mid-career professionals. RSE Annual Report 2017 –2018 5 Inspire Building research Capacity and Leadership the rse’s funding and awards programme aims to: • Attract and retain those with outstanding potential to establish their Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics and Arts & Humanities careers in Scotland; • Encourage enterprise, innovation and the commercialisation of technology- based ideas coming from academic research; • Develop international collaboration and enable participation in international research programmes. In 2017-2018, we received over 320 THE RSE GRANTS FUNDING AND AWARDS TO RECOGNISE ExCELLENCE AND SUPPORT LEADING applications and made 105 awards RESEARCH THAT BENEFITS SCOTLAND’S CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL WELLBEING to over 20 institutions. This included: the stated outcomes of the funding and awards programme are: 1) Arts and Humanities awards 2) Enterprise Fellowships KEY OUTCOMES INDICATORS We also continued to fund our Personal Enhance the capacity of world-class • Publications produced, or being Research Fellows, award Sabbatical researchers working in Scotland across published; Research Grants and provide support the range of expertise represented in the • Applications for grant funding for the Young
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