As of 1 September 2023 the Appointments Assurance Committee has been convened to replace the Appointments Board.
Roles and responsibilities
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Appointments Assurance Committee operates under delegated authority from the BBSRC Executive Chair. The committee is responsible for:
- providing assurance 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 committee 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 processes 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 processes used to select members of BBSRC’s Pool of Experts
- oversight of the processes used to select 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)
Members
- Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith (Chair), University of Cambridge
Term ends: 31 March 2025 - Professor David Jones, University College London
Term ends: 30 April 2024 - Dr Kevin Wright, Procter & Gamble
Term ends: 30 June 2024 - Professor Marian Dawkins, University of Oxford
Term ends: 30 April 2024 - 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
- September 2024, to be confirmed