The Food Standards Agency is asking social scientists for advice

The committee will have nine members and a chair and they are looking for lay members and experts in the following fields:

• Algorithm development and testing

• Anthropology

• Behavioural economics

• Behavioural science

• Communication studies

• Criminology

• Data aggregation and distributed data

• Data science

• Decision Science

• Economics

• Geography

• Market research

• Operational research

• Political science

• Psychology

• Risk communication

• Social media analytics

• Sociology

• Statistics

You can find out more about applying for these positions on their website.

The closing date for applications is 26th January 2018.