Guest Blog by Cdr Rob Forsyth RN (ret’d)
NIS is a not-for-profit, independent information service, which works to promote public awareness and foster debate on nuclear disarmament and related safety and environmental issues
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NIS Patrons
Jonathon Porritt
NIS Patron
Jonathon Porritt is a co-founder of Forum for the Future, former director of Friends of the Earth UK (1984 – 1990), and a former co-chair of the Green Party (1980 – 1983). He stood down as Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in July 2009 after nine years of providing high-level advice to government ministers, and was installed as the Chancellor of Keele University in February 2012. Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.
Nick Ritchie
NIS Patron
Nick researches and teaches in international relations and international security at the University of York, and previously ran the 'Nuclear Armed Britain' programme at the University of Bradford, examining progressive options for British nuclear weapons policy on a path towards nuclear disarmament.
NIS Board Members
Henrietta Wilson
NIS Board Member
I combine policy-relevant research with university teaching and editing work. My research explores technical and political challenges associated with arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament of weapons of mass destruction, and has resulted in diverse outputs which have impacted on real-world policy-making. Current teaching commitments are at the University of Bristol, delivering content on politics and international relations to undergraduate politics and sociology students.
Kirsten Bayes
NIS Board Member
Board Director
Kirsten is a regular speaker and steering committee member for Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). Kirsten worked in industry as an industrial marketer and technologist, before setting up a small business in 2016. She has also worked as a business school lecturer, and as an outreach campaigner for CAAT. She is on the boards of several non-profits, including Secure Active CIC and Reading Pride and is a former councillor and Deputy Leader of Reading Borough Council.
Duncan Barnet
NIS Board Member
Duncan is a retired ACMA qualified accountant with 16 years experience in industry followed by over 25 years in the voluntary sector. He is the Nuclear Information Service Company Secretary, providing financial management advice and ensuring that company legal and governance obligations are met.
Ele Carpenter
NIS Board Member
Ele is a curator, writer and researcher in politicised art and social networks of making. She is curatorial researcher in Nuclear Culture with The Arts Catalyst, Senior Lecturer in MFA Curating and convenor of the Nuclear Culture Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has over 20 years experience of working across the visual arts in public museums and galleries and in Higher Education.
Paul Harper
NIS Board Member
Chair
Paul has over 20 years experience, both as a board member and manager, with education, campaigning, and advice organisations in the voluntary sector alongside experience as a senior manager in local government. He brings his expertise in strategic and organisational development and performance management to the Nuclear Information Service Board.
Ailsa Johnson
NIS Board Member
Ailsa has been a grassroots campaigner for 30 years at a local and national level with various groups such as CND, Surrey Peace Action Network and Aldermaston Womens Peace Camp.
Di McDonald
NIS Board Member
Vice Chair
Di founded Nuclear Information Service to provide information on nuclear issues after living at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and working with Cruisewatch in the 1980s. She retired as our Project Director in 2009 and now brings a wealth of network contacts to the organisation through her previous roles in The Submarine Dismantling Project, Nuclear Submarine Forum, Solent Coalition Against Nuclear Ships, Peacerights and her continuing support for Nukewatch.
Tim Street
NIS Board Member
Tim has been working on peace and disarmament issues since 2005. He has worked with Nuclear Information Service, Campaign Against Arms Trade, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, British American Security Information Council and Conscience. Tim recently completed his PhD exploring the politics of nuclear disarmament at Warwick University and is an Associate Fellow with Oxford Research Group
NIS Staff
David Cullen
NIS Staff
Director
David Cullen has a background in environmental, social justice and disarmament campaigning. He worked for six years as the main researcher for the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, and before joining Nuclear Information Service he worked on a community energy project in Salford.
Trish Whitham
NIS Staff
Co-ordinator
Trish combines senior marketing and management experience gained in the IT industry with many years campaigning experience on nuclear issues. Her work with Nuclear Information Service includes planning and executing projects and events.
NIS Volunteers
Chris Burden
Volunteer
Chris has been a regular volunteer with NIS since 2011 providing invaluable assistance with research and administration work
Priya Chandapillai
Volunteer
Priya joined NIS as a Volunteer in 2018. She was a Lecturer in an Engineering College for 4.5 years, specialising in IT subjects. She has a great passion for web development and assists us with IT skills in research, administration and analysis.
Preeti Anchan
Volunteer
Preeti Anchan became a part of NIS as a volunteer in 2018. She has worked in IT and Admin, this assists NIS with the research and admin development. She hopes this will contribute towards influencing and promoting the disarmament of British Nuclear Weapons, sometime in near future...
