Wikipedia on the Chief Scientist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Chief_Scientific_Adviser_(United_Kingdom)
Website for Government Office for Science
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-office-for-science#management
Reports by policy area
Energy
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&publication_filter_option=all&topics%5B%5D=energy&departments%5B%5D=government-office-for-science&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=
Climate Change
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&publication_filter_option=all&topics%5B%5D=climate-change&departments%5B%5D=government-office-for-science&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=
Future of the Sea July 2017
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/622635/FutureOfTheSea_Report_V7_final.pdf
This document summarises findings from interviews with 11 leading companies who are each exploring an emerging theme or trend that will shape the future relationship between the nation and the sea.
It then presents an analysis of the specific opportunities and challenges for the UK, based on the views expressed in the interviews.
This research was completed by the Government Office for Science, as part of the Foresight Future of the sea project.
This is a more detailed report from the serieshttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/634437/Future_of_the_sea_-_implications_from_opening_arctic_sea_routes_final.pd
2016-17 Annual Report
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/642307/Government_Office_for_Science_Annual_Report_final_v2_16-17.pdf
2015-16
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/584490/go-science-annual-report-2015-16.pdf
Note link to speech on Energy & Climate change policy is dead!
2014-15
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487242/gs-15-33-go-science-annual-report-2014-15.pdf
Report 'Future of Cities: Beyond Peak Car' (August 2015)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/452923/future-cities-peak-car.pdf
Report 'London and the UK System of Cities' (2014-15)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/429129/london-and-UK-system-of-cities.pdf
2012-13
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/275802/13-p95-government-office-for-science-annual-review-2012-2013.pdf
In Summer
Publication of the Science and Engineering Assurance reviews of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for Energy and Climate Change. Both reviews were helpful in raising awareness of the evidence support systems and processes available to policy makers. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office have subsequently commissioned an internal review, to establish how to effectively implement improvements to scientific input across a wide range of business areas
Also
Energy Shale gas The GCSA asked the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering to produce an independent report summarising the relevant scientific and engineering knowledge, including levels of uncertainty and potential risks, associated with the extraction of shale gas. The report was published in June 2012, and informed the Government's later policy decisions on the future of exploration for shale gas. In December 2012, the Government announced that exploration for shale gas using hydraulic fracturing technology could be resumed in the UK.
2012
http://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/reports/shale-gas-extraction-in-the-uk
Nuclear energy In November 2011, the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee published a report on nuclear R&D capabilities in the UK. Responding to its recommendations, the Government asked the GCSA to lead a review of the current nuclear R&D landscape in the UK and to chair an ad hoc Nuclear Research and Development Advisory Board. The Advisory Board met seven times between March and December 2012, and has used the evidence generated by the review to make a series of recommendations to government on the future direction of civil nuclear R&D in the UK. The Government has accepted all the headline recommendations.
2010 Review of Climate Science Advice
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/286122/10-1290-review-of-climate-science-advice.pdf
David King Chief Scientist 2000-2007
Chief Scientific Adviser to H.M. Government under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and Head of the Government Office for Science from October 2000 to 31 December 2007.[8] In that time, he raised the profile of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the new £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_King_(chemist)
David King set up the UK Energy Technologies Insitute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Technologies_Institute
In addition to initial funding for the ETI, the Department for Business will provide £50 million a year over a period of 10 years starting in 2008-09. When establishing the ETI, the government expected the separate Energy Research Partnership [5] to raise matching funding from commercial organisations.
As of September 2006 EDF Energy, Shell, BP and E.ON UK had committed to providing funds. By 2014, this had grown to include Caterpillar and Rolls-Royce.
Unfortunately link to website is dead, as is possibly the Institute
They did however set up the UK Energy Research Centre
The UK Energy Research Centre
The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) carries out world-class research into sustainable future energy systems.
It is a focal point of UK energy research and a gateway between the UK and the international energy research communities.
Our interdisciplinary, whole systems research informs UK policy development and research strategy.
For more info:
Website still working!
John Beddington Chief Scientist 2008-2013
Sir John Rex Beddington, HonFREng,[2] CMG, FRS (born 13 October 1945)[1] is Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, and was previously Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London, and the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2008 until 2013.[3][4][5]
Beddington has been a specialist in the economics and biology of sustainable management of renewable resources, and has previously advised UK ministers on scientific and environmental issues. He has chaired the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' science advisory panel and the Defence Scientific Advisory Committee, and is a member of the Natural Environmental Research Council.[19] He has also advised the European Commission and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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On 1 October 2007, it was announced by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Beddington would succeed Professor Sir David King as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government with effect from 1 January 2008.[20] His annual remuneration for this role was £165,000.[21] Beddington was closely involved in helping the British government formulate its response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster,[22] the eruptions of Icelandic volcanoes and ash dieback disease in the UK.[5][23] In April 2013 Beddington was succeeded by Mark Walport.[24][25]
Mark Walport Chief Scientist 2013-February 2017
Sir Mark Jeremy Walport FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci HonFRSE (born 25 January 1953[1][6]) is a medical scientist and the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017.[3][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Previously Walport was Director of the Wellcome Trust from 2003 to 2013.[2] Before this, he was Professor of Medicine (from 1991) and Head of the Division of Medicine (from 1997) at Imperial College London,[6] where he led a research team that focused on the immunology and genetics of rheumatic diseases.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Walport was appointed to be the eleventh Government Chief Scientific Adviser in 2013, succeeding Sir John Beddington. As of September 2015, in this role Walport was paid a salary of between £155,000 and £159,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.[24]
It was announced in February 2017 that Mark Walport is now Chief Executive Designate of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).[25]
- Chris Whitty Chief Science Officer (interim) 2017- to date
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