Directors of Aston CRISIS Centre to be Government advisors

The government department, Communities and Local Government (CLG), have invited Professor Duncan Shaw and Dr Patrick Tissington to join an expert panel to advise ministers on all aspects of research in the field of fire and resilience. Their appointment to this multi-disciplinery panel is to provide external peer review,wide-reaching academic input, blue-sky thinking and independent challenge to their overall research programme and individual projects. In addition to the commissioning and delivery of new research projects, panel members are asked to be available to provide scientific advice to the Fire and Research Directorate (part of CLG) during a crisis and to their 'Emergency Room' which provides co-ordination and briefing for CLG Ministers and senior CLG officials.