Roles and responsibilities
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Appointments Panel operates under delegated authority from the BBSRC Executive Chair. The panel is responsible for:
- providing advice to BBSRC Council and Executive of the robustness of the nomination and selection processes used to appoint committees and panels
- making recommendations as to the composition and membership of the Pool of Experts
The panel will also take an active role in the selection and appointment of the chairs of committees and panels.
In undertaking this activity, the committee is responsible for ensuring:
- assessment of applications for, and appointment to, chair positions on BBSRC committees and panels
- oversight of the principles and strategies used to appoint members to committees convened to assess applications to:
- responsive mode
- fellowships
- follow-on fund
- managed mode initiatives
- training grant competitions
- oversight of the strategy used to appoint members of BBSRC’s Pool of Experts
- oversight of the strategy used to appoint members of BBSRC’s Strategy Advisory Panels
- providing external assurance of the quality and diversity of appointments to these groups, including disciplinary expertise, geographic, institutional and sectoral (meaning academia versus institute versus industry) variety, as well as protected and other personal characteristics (as appropriate)
- providing advice on emerging areas of research for BBSRC’s Pool of Experts and Strategy Advisory Panels
- oversight of and feeding into BBSRC classifications on an ongoing basis to ensure they are fit for purpose
- maintaining connectivity across UK Research and Innovation on related activities
Members
- Chair (to be confirmed)
- Professor David Jones, University College London
Term ends: 30 June 2025 - Dr Kevin Wright, Procter & Gamble
Term ends: 30 June 2025 - Professor Nicola Gray, The University of Edinburgh
Term ends: 30 April 2025 - Professor Neil Bruce, University of York
Term end: 30 April 2025 - Professor Wenbo Ma, The Sainsbury Laboratory
Term ends: 30 April 2025
Meeting dates
2024
- 21 March 2024
- November 2024 by correspondence