[okfn-discuss] Fwd: Science & Policy Lecture_Dr. Miles Parker_14.05.2010

[Peter Murray-Rust]

This may be of interest to those in the Cambridge area - for "Evidence
based policy making " we need to make sure that the evidence is
accessible.

P.



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From: Tim Guilliams <tg294 at cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:41 PM
Subject: Science & Policy Lecture_Dr. Miles Parker_14.05.2010
To: All Staff + PhD students <chem-general at lists.cam.ac.uk>


On Friday 14th of May, you are invited by the Darwin College Student
Association to a lecture given by Dr. Miles Parker, Director of
Science and Deputy Chief Scientific Advisor for Defra, Room 1, Mill
Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane. The lecture will begin at 17:15 with
question and answer to follow. Doors will open at 17:00.

Evidence based policy making – how can government be an intelligent
user of science?

>From the controversy surrounding the advice and eventual dismissal of
the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to
waning confidence in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) over melting rates of Himalayan glaciers, evidence-based policy
making has recently been a particularly polarising media issue.  Dr.
Parker's lecture will take a step back and examine what evidence-based
policy making really means.

Please register here.

Abstract

Dr. Parker will consider a question first addressed by Edward Health‘s
Central Policy Review team in the early 1970s, leading to a review
which established the paradigm for relations between government policy
makers and the science community to this day: how can government be an
intelligent user of science? Dr. Parker will argue for  a fundamental
change in the way in which Whitehall and Westminster approach
evidence-based policy making, and will explore what this would mean
for government and for academia.

Speaker: Dr. Miles Parker

Graduated in zoology, PhD in marine ecology, from Trinity College,
Dublin. Managed marine pollution unit and undertook research on marine
environmental issues at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in
Dublin,1975-83. Head of research and operations on marine pollution
from waste disposal at sea at MAFF’s Directorate of Fisheries Research
(now CEFAS) 1983-7. While in Dublin and at DFR, chairman of several of
the marine environmental working groups of the International Council
for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and at the Oslo and Paris
Commissions (OSPAR). Head of the MAFF food contamination and
biotechnology policy in 1987. Head of the Agri-Environment Unit at
MAFF Chief Scientist’s Group (CSG) in 1988. Cabinet Office Science
Secretariat 1991. Head of the MAFF CSG Science Division, managing
agriculture and fisheries research programmes until 1997. Acting
Director of Food Science at MAFF’s Central Science Laboratories (CSL)
and managing ownership of MAFF’s Laboratory Agencies in 1998. Director
for International Science at the Office of Science and Technology
1998-2001, mainly on negotiations of EU Framework Programme 6.
Director of Defra’s Evidence Programme since 2002 (managing Defra’s
policy and investment programme for science), Deputy Chief Scientific
Adviser and internal Head of Profession for Science and Engineering.

If you have any questions, comments and/or concerns regarding the
event, please don't hesistate to contact us at:
dcsa_events at darwin.cam.ac.uk

Yours Sincerely,

Tim Guilliams

On behalf of the Darwin College Student Association, the Centre for
Science and Policy and the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change and
Mitigation Research



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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069



-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069