Director
BAS Executive team
The BAS Executive Team is responsible for strategic planning. Members advise and support the Director and help provide the overall leadership, direction and management of the Survey to achieve its mission.
Director of BAS, Prof. Dame Jane Francis
Terms of Reference
- Develop, update and communicate BAS strategy to ensure effective development of BAS into the future
- Ensure strategies are in place for world class, high quality science with maximum impact
- Develop strategies to ensure that operations, infrastructure, facilities, collaboration and capabilities can deliver the BAS mission
- Encourage and facilitate appropriate business links for the commercial exploitation of BAS research and technical innovation
- Ensure the proper management of BAS and its finances, in a manner that is open, provides value for money and ensures a sustainable future
- Foster and develop a skilled and adaptable workforce that can meet future challenges
- Ensure that BAS operates in a safe & healthy manner and with the minimum-practicable environmental impact
- Ensure that BAS communicates its work and engages with the wider scientific community, decision-makers, and the general public
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Director of Innovations and Impact
BAS Science Strategy Executive Group, Information Services team, Leadership teams, UK Polar Data Centre team, BAS Executive team
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Science Leader IMP 1
BAS Science Strategy Executive Group, Space Weather and Atmosphere team, Leadership teams, BAS Executive team
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Director of Polar Operations Eng and Infrastructure
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Head of Strategy
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Head of Communications
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Director of Science
BAS Science Strategy Executive Group, Leadership teams, BAS Executive team
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Head of Future Financial Strategy
BAS Science Strategy Executive Group, Leadership teams, BAS Executive team
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Head of Human Resources
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UK-Argentina science collaboration agreement signed
Read more of: UK-Argentina science collaboration agreement signedOn Monday 14 May, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Instituto Antártico Argentino (IAA) signed a memorandum of understanding that aims to provide a formal framework to joint scientific […]
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Halley Research Station Antarctica to close for winter
Read more of: Halley Research Station Antarctica to close for winterBritish Antarctic Survey (BAS) has decided not to winter at Halley VI Research Station for safety reasons. The station, which is located on the floating Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, […]
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Double New Year Honours for British Antarctic Survey Directors
Read more of: Double New Year Honours for British Antarctic Survey DirectorsTwo leading polar scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have received awards in the 2017 New Year Honours list from Her Majesty the Queen. BAS Director, Professor Jane Francis, […]
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NEWS STORY: Evaluation shows BAS in good light
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Evaluation shows BAS in good lightIndependent evaluation of British Antarctic Survey research excellence The outcome of an independent evaluation of the research excellence within NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) Research Centres is published today. The […]
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Interview with Professor Dame Jane Francis
Read more of: Interview with Professor Dame Jane FrancisHow does a woman born in 1950s England go on to earn a PhD in geology, spend weeks at a time researching in Antarctica, become the director of the British […]
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Supporting equality, diversity and inclusion in science
Read more of: Supporting equality, diversity and inclusion in scienceBLOG. BAS Director of Science, Professor David Vaughan describes his ambition for more diversity in science.
