Stephen Webster 00:04

But I just want to welcome you, those of you who are external to Imperial.

Of course, those of you who are at Imperial, welcome too.

It’s not often we can get together as colleagues to discuss these kinds of things.

That’s me kicking off the opening session of the Failure in Science conference.

I’m Dr Stephen Webster, director of the Good Science Project at Imperial College London, a programme that examines what we like about research culture and what we don’t.

And of course, being a university, that means conferences.

And this one, Failure in Science, has really got a lot to do with Magdalena Skipper sitting here because she said to me this time last year, ”Should we have a conference on failure in science?”

And I just thought, Imperial College, Nature magazine, a conference about failure. You know, this is really too good to be true.…