Lords Committee takes evidence on research funding priorities
5 November 2009 (updated on 22 April 2010)
The Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry on setting science research funding priorities continues at 10.40am.
- Video and Audio: Setting Science and Technology Research Funding Priorities
- House of Lords Science and Technology Committee
Giving evidence at 10.40am will be:
- Professor Mark Welland, Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence;
- Paul Stein, Director General Science and Technology, Ministry of Defence;
- Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; and
- Dr Miles Parker, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of Science Directorate, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Giving evidence at 11.40am will be:
- Professor Sally Davies DBE, Director General, Research and Development, and Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Health;
- Professor Tom Walley, Director of Health Technology Assessment Programme, Department of Health;
- Andrew Steer, Director General, Policy and Research, Department for International Development; and
- Gail Marzetti, Deputy Head, DfID Research, Department for International Development.
The Committee's inquiry is investigating:
- how decisions are made to fund research to meet societal needs;
- the balance of funding for targeted versus unsolicited response-mode curiosity-driven research; and
- how research is commissioned in Government departments and agencies.