Roger Davies, professor of astronomy at the University of Durham, and Ian Ritchie, president of the British Computer Society, have been appointed to the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council from April 1 to the end of March 2002.
Len Culhane, head of the department of space and climate physics at University College London's space science laboratory, and James Hough, dean of the faculty of natural sciences at the University of Hertfordshire, have been reappointed until the end of March 2000. David Saxon, head of the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Glasgow, has been reappointed until end of March 2001.
Kate Purcell, former principal research fellow at the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick, has been appointed the first professor of employment studies at Bristol Business School, sponsored by Bristol & West.
Mike Lambert, who established the UK charity Move (Mobility Opportunities Via Education), has been appointed director of the regional primary centre, based at the University of Wolverhampton's Walsall campus.