Michael Reiss is Professor of Science Education and Head of Science
and Technology at the University of London Institute of Education,
a Priest in the Church of England and a former Vice-President of
the Institute of Biology. After a first degree in Applied Biology
at Cambridge he did a Ph.D. and carried out post-doctoral research
on evolutionary biology and genetics before training as a school
teacher and teaching in schools. He was a member of the UK Government's
Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) and Chair
of EuropaBio's Advisory Group on Ethics. He is the author of a number
of books including Improving Nature? The Science and
Ethics of Genetic Engineering (co-authored with Roger Straughan
and published by Cambridge University Press).
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Institute of Education, University of London
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BBSRC
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Member of Expert Group on response to public concern
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Various publishers
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Royalties
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Journal of Commercial Biotechnology
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Editorial Board member
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House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific
Procedures
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Specialist Advisor
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Scientific Committee of the 3rd Congress of the European
Society on Agricultural and Food Ethics
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Member
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Syngenta
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Honorarium for invited lecture
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EuropaBio's External Advisory Group on Ethics
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Chair, Member
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Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes
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Member
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Executive Committee of the Field Studies Council
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Institute of Biology
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Vice-President, Member of Council, Fellow
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Monash Bioethics Review
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Editorial Board Member
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British Council
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Grant holder
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British Ecological Society
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Grant holder
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ESRC
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Grant holder
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Scientific Committee of the 2nd Congress of the European
Society on Agricultural and Food Ethics
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Chair
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Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
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Editorial Board member
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