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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.=A0 Dr.
Parker's lecture will take a step back and examine what evidence-based
policy making really means.

Please register=A0here.

Abstract

Dr. Parker will consider a question first addressed by Edward Health=91s
Central Policy=A0Review team in the early 1970s, leading to a review
which established the paradigm=A0for relations between government policy
makers and the science community to this=A0day: how can government be an
intelligent user of science? Dr. Parker will argue for =A0a fundamental
change in the way in which Whitehall and Westminster approach
evidence-based policy making, and will explore what this would mean
for government=A0and 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=92s 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=92s 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=92s Central Science Laboratories (CSL)
and managing ownership of MAFF=92s 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=92s Evidence Programme since 2002 (managing Defra=92s
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
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Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069



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