British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
President gives evidence to Commons Committee
The President of the British Academy, Baroness O'Neill, gave oral evidence today (25 February 2009) to the House of Commons Innovation, Universities and Skills Commitee, as part of their enquiry into 'Putting Science and Engineering at the Heart of Government Policy', She talked about the Academy's submission to the Committee, the importance of academics and policy-makers working more closely together, and on the crucial role that the social sciences, in particular, could and should play in Government research and policy making. The evidence from this session has been published on the Committee's website, along with details of other oral and written evidence received.
NOTES TO EDITORS
Published:
15 March 2009
Onora O’Neill has been President of the British Academy since 2005. She was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy in 1993. She writes on ethics and political philosophy, with particular interests in questions of international justice, in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and in bioethics. Her books include Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice (Harper Collins, 1986), Constructions of Reason: Exploration of Kant's Practical Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Towards Justice and Virtue: A Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Bounds of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2002), A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures 2002 (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and most recently Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics ((co-authored) Cambridge University Press, 2007). She chairs the Nuffield Foundation and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She has been a member of and chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Human Genetics Advisory Commission, and was closely involved in work on a number of reports on bio-medical issues. She was formerly Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. She was created a Life Peer in 1999 (Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve), sits as a crossbencher, and has served on House of Lords Select Committees on Stem Cell Research and BBC Charter Review.
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