{"id":58,"date":"2012-08-01T12:53:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T12:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.blogs.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/?p=58"},"modified":"2013-06-24T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:11:34","slug":"city-of-southampton-appoints-professor-abubakr-bahaj-as-chief-scientific-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/city-of-southampton-appoints-professor-abubakr-bahaj-as-chief-scientific-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Southampton appoints Professor AbuBakr Bahaj as Chief Scientific Adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/files\/2013\/04\/NewsChiefAdviser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-59\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/files\/2013\/04\/NewsChiefAdviser-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"NewsChiefAdviser\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong>The City of Southampton has appointed Professor AbuBakr Bahaj as their Chief Scientific Adviser. Professor Bahaj, Head of the University&#8217;s Energy and Climate Change Division, has taken on the role to champion science and engineering as a key driver of the economy and ensure the city uses science effectively in all policy-making.<\/p>\n<p>Media coverage:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/mediacentre\/news\/2012\/aug\/12_139.shtml\">University press release<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/aug\/09\/southampton-chief-scientific-adviser\">The Guardian<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-19180732\"><br \/>\nBBC news<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ukpress\/article\/ALeqM5jc9IVKJQaYA_avA4Ao9bJSpoup5Q?docId=N0327171344417853896A\">Google news<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=420829&amp;c=1\">The Times<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/council-appoints-scientific-adviser-095044357.html\">Yahoo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/9861955.Council_appoints_UK_s_first_scientific_adviser\/\">Daily Echo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Southampton has appointed Professor AbuBakr Bahaj as their Chief Scientific Adviser. Professor Bahaj, Head of the University&#8217;s Energy and Climate Change Division, has taken on the role to champion science and engineering as a key driver of the economy and ensure the city uses science effectively in all policy-making. Media coverage: University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93263,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4217],"tags":[298418],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-298418"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}