Open appointment
Methods & Reproducibility Advisor
Research standards, reproducibility and major methodological changes.
External Advisory Charter / draft
Independent challenge without implied governance.
No external advisors are currently appointed. The advisory layer is designed to introduce independent challenge at points where one-person judgment is most consequential without implying a board or institutional structure that does not yet exist.
Open appointment
Regional Data Advisor
MENA official statistics, comparability and source interpretation.
Open appointment
Open Research & Governance Advisor
Research integrity, conflicts, corrections, open research and data governance.
Matters for advisory review
- Material changes to research standards.
- High-impact methodological changes.
- Corrections and retractions with substantive consequence.
- Research-independence or conflict questions.
- Annual research priorities and institutional-risk review.
Appointment rule
A person is not listed publicly until they have accepted the role. Informal advice, email feedback, collaboration discussions and one-off review do not constitute appointment.
Records
Once active, the Lab will publish appointment records, a conflicts register and an annual governance statement. Meeting notes are published when confidentiality and data-protection obligations permit.
Source charter
The canonical draft is also maintained in advisory-charter.md.