The Board of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has appointed Professor Sir Bernard Silverman, statistician, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office (2010-2017) and now part-time Professor of Modern Slavery Statistics, University of Nottingham to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
To read more about this please visit this page: https://esrc.ukri.org/news-events-and-publications/news/news-items/new-appointments-to-esrc-council2/.
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