POST Newsletter

July 2013

Future work programme

At the POST Board meeting on July 2nd, the Board agreed the following subject areas for future POSTnotes.

• Unmanned aerial vehicles: this POSTnote will provide an overview of the range of current and future applications of commercial drones, covering both small drones and larger aircraft. It would look at the potential benefits to the UK and would consider issues that need to be addressed such as how to avoid collisions, privacy concerns and insurance.
• Climate Feedbacks: this POSTnote will summarise the current available evidence on the likely impact of feedbacks, areas where further research is required to support climate models and the implications for climate change policy
• Short Lived Climate Pollutants: this POSTnote will describe the different shorter-lived climate pollutants and their effects on the climate system and current policy initiatives to mitigate emissions of these substances.
• Transparency of Clinical Data: this POSTnote will look at proposals for regulation to increase the transparency of data collected in clinical trials.
• Special Educational Needs: this POSTnote will describe the neurodevelopmental aspects of special educational needs and give an overview of how educational practice can take account of the latest research.
• Surveillance of Infectious Disease: this POSTnote will examine new sequencing technologies for surveillance of infectious disease and use case studies to show how they have been applied. 

More details of POST's current work can be found on this website.

POST Events

• Special Educational Needs
• Bovine Tuberculosis Disease Control
• The Science of Health and Wellbeing