Health and Life Sciences Research Strategy Committee
The Health and Life Sciences Research Strategy Committee came into being in 2016 at the request of the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Health, Professor John Iredale. Its membership spans across the Faculties of Life Sciences and Health Sciences and with the purpose of debating and developing a unified health research strategy. It will overview strategic delivery by the Faculties and Schools with support from the Research and Enterprise Division.
Membership currently includes:
- Faculty of Health Sciences Research Director and co-Chair of Committee: Patrick Kehoe
- Faculty of Life Sciences Research Director and co-Chair of Committee: David Stephens
- Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise): Phil Taylor
- Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences: Jeremy Tavaré
- Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences: Jane Norman
- North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Director of Research: David Wynick
- Head of Bristol Medical School: Ashley Blom
- Head of Bristol Veterinary School: Tim Parkin
- (Acting) Head of Bristol Dental School: Tim Peters
- Head of School for Biochemistry: Nigel Savery
- Head of School for Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience: Hugh Piggins
- Head of School for Cellular and Molecular Medicine: Anne Ridley
- Head of School for Biological Sciences: Claire Grierson
- Head of School for Psychological Science: Michael Banissy
- Director of Elizabeth Blackwell Institute: Rachael Gooberman-Hill
- Director of the Bristol Heart Institute: Gianni Angelini
- Director of the Population Health Science Specialist Research Institute: Caroline Relton
- Director of the Bristol BioDesign Specialist Research Institute: Dek Woolfson
- Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Manager: Nina Couzin
- Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange Development: Simon Gray
- Research Development Manager for the Faculty of Health Sciences: Zoë Holland
- Research Development Manager for Faculty of Life Sciences: Sandra Spencer
- Research Development Associate for the Faculties of Health and Life Sciences: Joseph Butler
- Research Development Associate for the Faculties of Health and Life Sciences: Sarah Stuart
- Committee Secretaries: Naomi Boardman and Samantha Herron
Membership of the Committee will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Terms of reference and minutes of meetings are available on the Committee's Sharepoint.
Meeting schedule for 2022:
- 28 March 2022
- 21 June 2022
- 13 September 2022
- 13 December 2022
If you have any questions regarding the committee, please email healthresearch-committee@bristol.ac.uk.