{"id":87728,"date":"2018-01-04T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=04d20c675b6a39ee2eb627d8ac64c73d"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:47:43","slug":"news-story-geography-skills-across-government-recognised-by-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87728","title":{"rendered":"News story: Geography skills across government recognised by new role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Government Science and Engineering (GSE) profession is pleased to announce the appointment of a new cross-government Head of Geography for the profession, David Wood.<\/p>\n<p>David will be helping to continue to implement the action plan of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/government-science-and-engineering-profession-strategy-one-year-on\">GSE strategy<\/a> and championing the breadth of work undertaken by geographers and recognising their contribution to analysis, delivery and policy formulation across government.<\/p>\n<p>This appointment has been made by the Central Government Geographers Group with the support of the Interim Head of GSE profession and Interim Government Chief Scientific Adviser, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/christopher-whitty\">Chris Whitty<\/a> and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rgs.org\/HomePage.htm\">Royal Geographical Society<\/a> (with Institute of British Geographers).<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/governmentscienceandengineering.blog.gov.uk\/2017\/07\/25\/gse-to-recruit-new-head-of-geography\/\">Find out more about the role on the GSE blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new pan-government Head of Geography for government scientists and engineers has been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}