Prof. Dr. Amparo Acker-Palmer
Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
Agriculture, Biological and related sciences , Physical sciences, Engineering and engineering trades , Health, Social and behavioural sciences, Veterinary
Joyce Tait has an interdisciplinary background covering both natural and social sciences and has worked on the agrochemical, pharmaceutical and life science industries, specifically strategic planning for innovation, governance and regulation, and stakeholder attitudes and influences. Relevant life science areas include synthetic biology, genetic databases, regenerative medicine, GM crops, biofuels, pharmaceuticals, and translational medicine.
Honorary Doctorate, Open University; 2009
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; 2006
CBE for services to social science; 2005
Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis; 2005
English, French
I have an interdisciplinary background covering both natural and social sciences and have worked on agrochemical, pharmaceutical and life science industry sectors, specifically innovation strategies, governance and regulation, and stakeholder attitudes and influences. Relevant life science areas include stratified medicine, synthetic biology, genetic databases, GM crops, biofuels, pharmaceuticals, stem cell therapies and translational medicine.
Lyall, C., Bruce, A., Tait, J. and Meagher L. (2011) Interdisciplinary Research Journeys: Practical strategies for capturing creativity. London: Bloomsbury Press. http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/Interdisciplinary-Research-Journeys/book-ba-9781849661782.xml
Lyall, C. and Tait, J. (eds.) (2005) New Modes of Governance: Developing an Integrated Policy Approach to Science, Technology, Risk and the Environment. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Devos, Y., Sanvido, O., Tait, J. and Raybould, A. (2013) Towards a more open debate about values in decision making on agricultural biotechnology. Transgenic Research. Published online, 7 Sept., 2013. http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/684/art%253A10.1007%252Fs11248-013-9754-z.pdf?auth66=1380549875_2d83b0187f186e496d767cb44bba24a5&ext=.pdf
Bruce, A., Castle, D., Gibbs, C., Tait, J. and Whitelaw, C.B.A. (2013) Novel GM animal technologies and their governance. Transgenic Research, Published online, 19 June, 2013, pp 1-15; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11248-013-9724-5.pdf
Mastroeni, M., Tait, J. and Rosiello, A. (2013) Regional Innovation Policies in a Globally Connected Environment. Science and Public Policy (2013) pp. 1-9
Mittra, J. and Tait, J. (2012) Analysing Stratified Medicine Business Models and Value Systems: Innovation-Regulation Interactions. New Biotechnology, 29(6), 709-719.
Tait, J. (2011) The ethics of biofuels. GCB Bioenergy, 3, 271-275
Tait, J. (2011) Shaping an ethical future for biofuels. Bioscience, 61(9), 653-4.
Buyx, A.M. and Tait, J. (2011) Biofuels: ethics and policy making. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 5(4) 350-351.
Buyx, A.M. and Tait, J. (2011) Ethical framework for biofuels. Science, 29th April 2011, 540-541.
Implantable Microsystems for Personalised Anti-Cancer Therapy (IMPACT), funded by EPSRC, £4.2M, (2013-2018)
Engaging with Uncertainty and Risk in Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation: Delivering Safety and Innovation, jointly funded by ESRC and Syngenta, £40,000,(2012-13), (with D. Castle, J. Mittra and M. Mastroeni)
Partners in DEFRA-funded project, Integrated Advice Pilot Project, along with ADAS, AHDB and RAND Europe; Edinburgh University Innogen Centre component, £108.5K, (2011-12), (with D. Castle and A. Bruce)
Facilitating Innovation in Scotland. Funded by Scottish Science Advisory Council, £9,300, (2011), (with D. Castle, A. Rosiello and C. Lyall)
With RAND Europe: The development of a methodology and application of knowledge exchange and translational research in agriculture and food to a specific product supply chain. (£11,875), awarded by RCUK/BBSRC, (2010-11)
Technology Strategy Board and Economic and Social Research Council. A Therapy Realization Pathway Tool (TRPT) applied to three representative regenerative medicine therapeutic products (REALISE), £154,000, (2010-11)
Innogen Centre Core Grant, (ESRC), £5.2 million (with Robin Williams and David Wield), (Oct. 2007-June 2013)
Member, Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Responsible Innovation Framework Assessment Panel, Advancing the Industrial Application of Synthetic Biology; (2013)
Member, TSB Stratified Medicine Public Engagement Oversight Group; (since 2012)
Member, Technology Strategy Board Synthetic Biology Leadership Council;(since 2012)
Member, Department of Health Emerging Science and Bioethics Advisory Committee; (since 2012)
Adviser to Technology Strategy Board in development of its synthetic biology Responsible Innovation Framework (RIF); and member of the Evaluation Panel for grant applications implementing the RIF; (2012 – 13)
Member, Discipline Hopping: Engineering and Physical Sciences and Social Sciences prioritisation panel, EPSRC. Nov. and Dec.; (2010)
Member, Advisory Board, BEST Stem Cells Project (Biochemically Equivalent Substitutive Technology), EU FP7 Project, Theme Health; (2009 – 2012)
Member, UK Food Standards Agency Steering Group on UK GM Dialogue; (2010)
Chair, Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on 'Biofuels – Ethical Issues'; (2009 – 2011)
Member ALLEA (All European Academies) Working Group on 'Evaluating for Science'; (2009 – 2011)
Mentor, US NSF and UK EPSRC Synthetic Biology Sandpit; (2009)
Trustee, Scotland Foundation, Royal Society of Edinburgh; (2008 – 2010)
Board Member, Roslin Foundation Board; (since 2008)
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Biological and related sciences , Health, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Vascular Biology, Tumour Biology
Biological and related sciences , Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary genetics
Social and behavioural sciences, Social psychology, industrial and organisational psychology
Biological and related sciences , Environment, Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology, Landscape Genomics
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