The Food Standards Agency is asking social scientists for advice
The FSA is asking for applications from behaviourial economists, criminologists, anthropologists and political scientists for a new Advisory Committee on Social Science. Its purpose would be to provide strategic advice on how to improve food safety and regulate food sustainably.
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.
Published Thursday 7 December 2017
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