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Management of the polymer IRC

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The progress of the IRC's core scientific programmes is regularly monitored, and subject to detailed peer review.

The operations committee is drawn from the staff of the IRC. The committee oversees the organisation of current projects, and provides advice to members to assist the development of new programmes:

• Prof Tom McLeish
• Prof Steve Armes
• Dr Malcolm Butler
• Dr Nigel Clarke
• Helen Clancy
• Prof. Phil Coates
• Dr Mark Geohegan
• Dr Tim Gough
• Dr Peter Hine
• Prof. Tony Ryan
• Shelagh Cowley
• Dr Barry Maunders

The Polymer IRC Board is drawn from the IRC, academia and industry. The board meets twice a year to review scientific progress and provision of services, and guides us in the establishment of new targets and programmes:

Chair

• Prof. Tom McLeish (Director, Polymer IRC)

Industrial advisors

• Prof David Bott (DTI, Materials UK)
• Dr Jim Darwent (Unilever)
• Dr David Farrar (Smith & Nephew)
• Dr Rudy Koopmans (DOW)
• Dr Robert Quarshie (Polymer Innovation Network)

Advisors from the broader academic community

• Prof. Sir Richard Friend FRS (Cambridge)
• Prof Dame Julia Higgins FRS, (Imperial College)
• Prof. Han Meijer (T U Eindhoven)

Members of the IRC itself

• Prof Steve Armes(Sheffield)
• Dr Malcolm Butler
• Dr Nigel Clarke(Durham)
• Mrs Helen Clancy
• Prof Phil Coates (Bradford)
• Dr Barry Maunders

The named people above are joined by the EPSRC materials programme manager and representatives from the administrations of the four particpating universities.