Joyce Tait Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Joyce Tait
Honorific Suffix:CBE, FRSE, FSRA
Birth Date:1938
Nationality:British
Alma Mater:University of Glasgow
Occupation:Scientist and regulator

Elizabeth Joyce Tait[1] CBE, FRSE, FSRA (born February 1938) is a professor at the University of Edinburgh[2] [3] and a member of the UK Council for Science and Technology.[4] [5] She is a member of the UK Government Regulatory Horizons Council, an independent expert committee which provides advice on regulatory reform to support innovation in science and technology.[6] [7] In 2002 she co-founded the Innogen Institute to support scientists in developing innovation in safe ways which are useful to society.[8] [9] [10]

She is an expert in scientific regulation[11] [12] and comments on the safe, evidence-based development of innovation in life science and related areas, including genetically modified foods.[13] [14] She is a member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal Synthetic and Systems Biology.

Tait holds a BSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Glasgow and a PhD in land economy studying regulation of pesticide production and use. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Open University. Tait was appointed CBE for services to social science in 2005.

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  1. Web site: Professor Elizabeth Joyce Tait CBE FRSE . https://web.archive.org/web/20170805181053/https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/joyce-tait/ . 2017-08-05 . 2023-12-24 . The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
  2. Web site: Joyce Tait - Life Science Innovation Systems -Research In A Nutshell- School of Social and Political Science-17/07/2012 . 2022-07-21 . Media Hopper Create . en.
  3. Web site: Joyce Tait School of Social and Political Science . 2022-07-21 . www-staging.sps.ed.ac.uk . en.
  4. Web site: 2017-09-11 . Professor Joyce Tait appointed to the Council for Science and Technology . 2022-07-21 . Open University in Scotland . en.
  5. Web site: New members of the Council for Science and Technology confirmed . 2022-07-21 . GOV.UK . en.
  6. Web site: Joyce Tait joins the Regulatory Horizons Council Innogen . 2022-07-21 . www.innogen.ac.uk.
  7. Web site: Regulatory Horizons Council (RHC) . 2022-07-21 . GOV.UK . en.
  8. Web site: Creating responsible innovation . 2022-07-21 . The University of Edinburgh . en.
  9. Web site: Home Innogen . 2022-07-21 . www.innogen.ac.uk.
  10. Web site: Joyce Tait Eurostemcell . 2022-07-21 . www.eurostemcell.org.
  11. Tait . Joyce . Brown . Alex . Lalinde . Isabela Cabrera . Barlow . Daniel . Chiles . Matthew . Mason . Paul . March 2021 . Responsible innovation: Its role in an era of technological and regulatory transformation . Engineering Biology . en . 5 . 1 . 2–9 . 10.1049/enb2.12005 . 2398-6182. free . 20.500.11820/0bf9a516-8393-474e-8195-a9dd0f2c868a . free .
  12. Tait . Joyce . June 2017 . From responsible research to responsible innovation: Challenges in implementation . Engineering Biology . English . 1 . 1 . 7–11 . 10.1049/enb.2017.0010. free .
  13. Web site: Gene-edited pork on sale 'within years' say 'Dolly' scientists behind deal to breed world's first virus-resistant pigs . 2022-07-21 . HeraldScotland . en.
  14. Web site: GM Archive / Professor Joyce Tait collection relating to genetically modified crops Science Museum Group Collection . 2022-07-21 . collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk . en.

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