Professor Anne Anderson has been reappointed to the Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for a second term of four years.

The EPSRC is the main UK government agency for funding, research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, and invests over £850 million each year across a range of subjects. Prof Anderson has already served on the Council for three years, having first been appointed in 2008.Professor Anne Anderson 

The Council is the senior decision-making body responsible for determining policy, priorities and strategies of the EPSRC as a whole. It is accountable for the stewardship of the budget of the EPSRC and assessing the extent to which objectives have been met. Members of the Council are appointed by the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills and are drawn from both academic and industrial communities.

Prof Anderson is currently Head of the College of Social Sciences and Vice-Principal at the University. A Psychologist and a University of Glasgow graduate, she specialises in human communications and the impacts of new information and communication technologies.

She also holds various national roles, including Director of the £7 million People at the Centre of Information and Communication Technologies (PACCIT) programme (2000-06) funded by ESRC, EPSRC and the DTI and Director of the ESRC Cognitive Engineering programme (1995-2000). In 2002 she was awarded an OBE for services to social science.

First published: 26 May 2011

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