Chairman, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science

Director and Trustee, UK Stem Cell Foundation

Advisory Board, Engineering & Physical Science Research Council

Trustee, Sense About Science

Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine

Fellow, Royal Society of Arts

Honorary Fellow, Academy of Experimental Criminology

Honorary Fellow, University College London

Honorary Doctorate, Queen's University Belfast

Visiting Professor, University College London

Board of Trustees, Crimestoppers

Trustee, Dfuse

President, HealthWatch

Royal College of Physicians Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine

Ethics Standards Advisory Panel, onCore (UK cancer tissue bank)

Chairman, Wales Cancer Bank Advisory Board

President, London Road Safety Council

Hon Vice President, Institute of Advanced Motorists

Affiliate, The James Lind Alliance

President, Tacade

Ambassador, World Wildlife Fund

Adviser RBS Group MoneySense

Patron, Dignity in Dying

Guest Director, 2008 Cheltenham Science Festival

Director, HQS (Health Quality Service)

Chairman Science Book Prize 1991 and 2006

Advisory Board, Crime Concern

Advisory Board, Victim Support

COPUS (Committee on the Public Understanding of Science)

Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Expert Advisor on Drugs, Health Education Authority

Academy of Medical Sciences / Royal Society / Wellcome Trust Working Party on the use of non-human primates in research

Vice Chairman, National Road Safety Committee RoSPA

Member of Council, Institute of Advanced Motorists

National Consumer Council Commission into Public Services

Defeat Depression Campaign

Rationing Action Group (on health priorities)

The Royal Society Project Science Steering Committee

Animal Care Trust

Apex Trust

British Wireless for the Blind Fund

Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill

Kidney Research Aid Fund

Myasthenia Gravis Association

Missing People

NICHS

Prisoners Abroad

Raynaud's & Scleroderma Association

Resources for Autism

SaneLine

Simon Community Northern Ireland

Young at Heart