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Science must shed elitist image, urges UK research chief

Ottoline Leyser says innovation can help public services deal with spending pressures
UK Research and Innovation chief Prof Dame Ottoline Leyser says scientists need to show they are ‘not just people in white coats rattling test tubes’

Science must shed its elitist image if it is to survive the “polarising debates” stoking turmoil in US institutions, the outgoing head of the main UK research funding body has warned.  

Scientists need to show they are “not just people in white coats rattling test tubes”, but a source of high quality jobs and public service innovation at a time of government spending squeezes, said Prof Dame Ottoline Leyser, UK Research and Innovation chief executive.

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