SIRC - Key Persons

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• Advisor
• Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers

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• Advisor
• Advisor and Contributor to the
• Solo Exhibitions ( Paintings )

Desmond Morris is a member of SIRC's panel of advisors. A world-renowned zoologist, author and painter, Dr Morris was born in Wiltshire in 1928 and educated at Birmingham and Oxford universities. Desmond Morris has been a highly valued advisor and contributor to the Social Issues Research Centre for many years, and is centrally involved, with the other members of our Advisory Panel, in guiding the work of SIRC.

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• Advisor
• Editor of the International Handbook
• Professor of Anthropology at Brown University

Dwight B. Heath is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University A graduate of Yale and Harvard, Professor Dwight Heath is recognised as the world's leading anthropological authority on alcohol issues, and has acted as consultant on alcohol, drugs and addiction issues to varied agencies such as the World Health Organisation, the National Academy of Sciences, the International Center for Alcohol Policies, the Peace Corps, etc. Professor Heath's research projects have been supported by such diverse organisations as the Institute of Medicine, the Addiction Research Foundation, the US Sentencing Commission and the World Health Organisation. Dwight is the editor of the International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture . His other books include Alcohol Use and World Cultures: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Anthropological Sources (1980); Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America (1988) and Drinking Occasions: Comparing Perspectives on Alcohol and Culture (2000). He is also on the Editorial Boards of the journals Addiction, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Social History of Alcohol Review, Journal of Substance Abuse, etc. and has published in many other journals including: Current Anthropology, Human Organization, Drugs and Society, Annual Review of Anthropology, Daedalus, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Rhode Island Medical Journal, Acta Psiquiatrica y Psicologica de America Latina, etc. Professor Heath advises the Social Issues Research Centre on a wide range of sociocultural and health issues.

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• Research Fellowship, 1988 - 90

James Harkin is a social forecaster who writes regularly for The Financial Times and The Guardian. He is director of Flockwatching Between 1996 and 1999 he taught and lectured in social and political theory at the University of Oxford. In 1999, he exited academic life to work as an analyst of global social, cultural and technological trends for agencies in New York, London and in continental Europe. He also became a regular contributor on politics and contemporary society to newspapers and magazines, and managed projects and wrote several pamphlets on changing demographic and technological trends for the think-tank Demos. After 2003 he became a regular writer for the Financial Times magazine, writing features, interviews and essays. Between September 2005 and October 2006, he wrote a column for The Guardian Saturday paper called BIG IDEA, and before that he wrote similar columns for The Times and the Financial Times. He's appeared on Channel 4 News and Newsnight, and has lectured on contemporary cultural, social, technological and political trends everywhere from Oxford University to the Edinburgh International Film Festival, from the Ottawa Writers Festival to the LSE, from the annual conferences of the Arts Marketing Association to that of Schroders Bank. Between 2004 and 2009 he was, on a part-time basis, Director of Talks at the ICA in London. He was the associate producer of Adam Curtis's most recent three-part series about game theory, The Trap: Whatever happened to our dream of freedom?, which aired on BBC2 in March 2007. His book, Big Ideas: The Essential Guide To The Latest Thinking, based on his weekly column for The Guardian, was published in February 2008 in the UK and the United States by Atlantic Books and has now been translated into Korean, Spanish and Polish. His second book Cyburbia, about how the internet and the idea of cybernetics are changing contemporary culture, was published in February 2009 by Little, Brown and by Knopf in Canada in April of the same year. His new book Niche, about the changing shape of business, culture, politics and society, has been commissioned by Little, Brown and will published in March 2011. He can be contacted via james [AT] jamesharkin.co.uk

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• Rice & Legume Processing Advisor

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• Advisor
• Editor - in - Chief of the International Journal of Food Sciences
• Professor of Human Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University

Jeya Henry is a Professor of Human Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University and a Royal Society Visiting Professor at the Chinese University, Hong Kong. He is a consultant to the World Health Organisation, Unicef and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations on all aspects relating to nutrition assessment, food safety and nutrient requirements. Jeya is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, editor of the British Journal of Nutrition, a referee for the British Medical Journal and has served on the Board of the Food Standards Agency. His current research interests include the management and treatment of childhood obesity, the evaluation and use of low and high glycaemic index foods, the development of high energy food for refugee feeding, nutrition and dietary needs of the elderly and the optimisation of diet for effective weight loss. Jeya has edited five books and has had over 150 articles published. A full Curriculum Vitae is listed below.

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• Advisor
• Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers
• Professor Tiger Is a Member of SIRC 's Panel of Advisors

Lionel Tiger was born in Montreal, Canada in 1937 and educated at McGill University and the London School of Economics. He lectured at the University of Ghana, Accra, and at the University of British Columbia, before joining Rutgers University in 1969. He is currently Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University. Other appointments and awards have included:

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• Advisor
• Advisor to the Directors
• Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University

Robin Fox is currently University Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University. Professor Fox was born in Yorkshire and educated at the London School of Economics and Harvard University, with post-doctoral work at Stanford Medical School. He did fieldwork in New Mexico and Donegal and from 1959 to 1967 taught at the universities of Exeter and London. In 1967 he published Kinship and Marriage: An Anthropological Perspective , which is still probably the world's most widely read anthropological text. In the same year he went to Rutgers to found a department of Anthropology and has been there ever since. In 1970 he published The Imperial Animal, in collaboration with his colleague (and now fellow SIRC Advisor) Lionel Tiger. This was one of the earliest attempts to introduce ethological ideas into the social sciences. Robin Fox is also the author of: Encounter with Anthropology ; The Red Lamp of Incest: An Enquiry into the Origins of Mind and Society ; Violent Imagination ; The Search for Society: Quest for a Biosocial Science and Morality; The Challenge of Anthropology: Old Encounters and New Excursions ; Reproduction and Succession: Studies in Anthropology, Law, and Society ; Conjectures and Confrontations: Science, Evolution, Social Concern ; Keresan Bridge, The: A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology ; The Tory Islanders - and editor of Biosocial Anthropology and, with Jacques Mehler, Neonate Cognition: Beyond the Buzzing, Blooming Confusion . His most recent books are The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and Creativity , 1999 and Participant Observer: A Memoir of a Transatlantic Life , 2004. In 1984, Rutgers made Robin Fox a University Professor, the highest honour it can confer on a faculty member. In 1997, the University of Ulster awarded him an honorary D.Sc. for ‘distinguished contributions to Irish studies and anthropology'. Robin Fox has been a highly valued advisor to the Directors of the Social Issues Research Centre for many years, and is centrally involved, with the other members of our Advisory Panel, in guiding the work of SIRC.

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• Advisor
• Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
• Trustee of the Science Museum

Professor Greenfield is an advisor to the Social Issues Research Centre and is centrally involved with us in the development of a Code of Practice for science and health reporting. Susan Greenfield was an undergraduate at St Hilda's College, Oxford and subsequently took a DPhil in the University Department of Pharmacology. She has held fellowships in the Department of Physiology, Oxford; the College de France, Paris and NYU Medical Center, New York. In 1985 she was appointed University Lecturer in Synaptic Pharmacology and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Lincoln College. Subsequently she has also held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute o f Neuroscience, La Jolla, USA, and was the 1996 Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Queens University, Belfast. The title of Professor of Pharmacology was conferred in 1996. In 1997 she was awarded an Honorary DSc by Oxford Brookes University, and has received Honorary DSc degrees, in 1998, from the University of St Andrew's and Exeter University. She became Director of The Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1998. Apart from her primary research where she heads a group of 18 scientists studying Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Disease, Greenfield has developed an interest in the physical basis o f the mind. In 1987 she edited Mindwaves with Colin Blakemore and in 1995 published her own theory of consciousness Journey to the Centers of the Mind: Toward a Science of Consciousness . Her more recent books include The Human Brain: A Guided Tour , 1998; Inside the Body: Fantastic Images from Beneath the Skin , 2004 and Tomorrow's People: How 21st-Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel , 2004. Greenfield is a Trustee of the Science Museum and also makes contributions to the communication of science in the media. In 1994 she was the first woman to give the Royal Institution Christmas lectures and has subsequently made a wide range of broadcasts on TV and radio, as well as appearing as the scientist in a variety of interviews and pieces, such as "Visionaries" in Tomorrow's World and "Innovations" on BBC Breakfast TV. She has also participated in more general programmes such as "Start the Week", "Any Questions", "Desert Island Discs" and "Question Time". She has just finished a series of 4 half hour programmes for BBC Radio 4 on drugs and is currently preparing a major six part series on the brain and mind, to be broadcast on BBC2 in the year 2000. In 1995 she was elected to the Gresham Chair of Physic, which entails giving six public lectures a year in the City of London. In January 1998 she was consultant and "agony aunt" on a six week series on the brain, "Brainpower" in The Sunday Times magazine. She has been profiled in most of the broadsheets and was included as one of the 50 most powerful women in Britain by the Guardian and ranked number 14 in the "50 Most Inspirational Women in the World" by Harpers and Queen. She has recently received the Michael Faraday medal from the Royal Society for making the most significant contribution in 1998 to the public understanding of science, as well as receiving the "Woman of Distinction" 1998 award from Jewish Care. She has a growing interest in the more political aspects of science research in Britain, and has spoken at a fringe meeting of the Labour Party Conference as well as being invited to the House of Commons and No.10 Downing Street, to give talks on science policy. In January 2000 Susan Greenfield was awarded the CBE for her services to the public understanding of science and more recently was made a Baroness.

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• Fellow