Lauren Sullivan MP (Chair)
Labour MP for Gravesend and member of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
About our board
The POST board meets quarterly to discuss proposals for POSTnotes and offers advice on which topics should be covered. This helps to ensure that POST’s research programme reflects the current interests of Parliament.
To ensure impartiality, the POST board reflects the make-up of Parliament and spans various scientific and academic disciplines. The board consists of:
- Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, roughly reflecting the balance of parties in Parliament
- Eminent experts from the research community, nominated by the National Academies.
- Representatives from parliamentary teams.
Commons board members
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Chi Onwurah MP
Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West and Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology committee
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Chris Curtis MP
Labour MP for Milton Keynes North and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Self-Driving Vehicles
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Adam Thompson MP
Labour MP for Erewash and member of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
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George Freeman MP
Conservative MP for Mid-Norfolk and member of the Science, Innovation and Technology committee
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Ian Sollom MP
Liberal Democrat MP for St Neots and South Cambridgeshire
Lords board members
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Lord Ravensdale (Vice-chair)
Crossbench Peer and the member of the Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee
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Lord Mair FREng FRS
Crossbench Peer and chair of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee
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Lord Haskel
Labour Peer, deputy speaker of the House of Lords and member of the Procedure and Privileges Committee and the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee
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Professor the Lord Robert Winston
Labour Peer and Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London
External board members
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Professor Elizabeth Fisher FMedSci
Professor of Neurogenetics at University College London
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Paul Martynenko MBE FBCS
Former President of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT
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Professor Susan Owens OBE, FBA
Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy at the University of Cambridge
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Professor Sir Bernard Silverman FRS
Former President of the Royal Statistical Society and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office
Senior parliamentary officials
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Oliver Bennett MBE
Head of POST
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Grant Hill-Cawthorne
House of Commons Librarian and Managing Director of Research and Information
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Ariella Huff
Director of Select Committee Scrutiny and Analysis, House of Commons
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Xameerah Malik
Head of Science and Environment Section, House of Commons Library
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Amy Creese
Head of Policy Research, House of Lords
Related pages
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Future research
View our work programme of future research and find out how to contribute as an expert.
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Research
Browse our impartial, peer reviewed research, produced in collaboration with specialists from academia, industry, government, and beyond.
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About us
POST sources reliable and impartial scientific research evidence for the UK Parliament.
