GM Science Review Panel - Members' Interests

Professor Janet Bainbridge

Prof J M Bainbridge OBE BSc (Hons) PhD Dunelm, Grad Cert Ed (Tech), FRSA, MSOFHT. Prof Bainbridge is currently Chief Executive of EPICC Ltd a not for profit company working regionally, nationally and internationally with the Process Industries (Chemical and Food Manufacturers); she is particularly interested in facilitating innovation as a result of research collaborations between industry and academia.

A distinguished academic she was formerly responsible for academic staff development across the University of Teesside and led the University to Investors in People (IIP) accreditation and subsequent renewal. As Director of School she reprofiled the academic provision in Science and Engineering.

She is former chair of the Advisory on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) and a former co-opted member of the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE). She was formerly a member of the Food Chain Crops for Industry Foresight Panel and Chaired the Debate in the Food Chain task force. Janet is currently a Council Member of EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and sits on their Resource Audit Committee.

Janet has a reputation for being an excellent communicator of science with a distinguished international profile and has participated in several overseas lecture tours. She currently supervises several overseas researchers who are working at the interface of science, innovation and commercial exploitation