cancer diagnostics and pathology specialist Medical Solutions plc, and of the management committee of the University of Oxford's Begbroke Science Park, and was also a board member of Isis Innovation, the exploitation arm of the university. Commissioned reviews SET for Success In March 2001, the UK Government commissioned Roberts to undertake a review into the supply of science and engineering skills in the UK. The final report, entitled SET for Success was published on 15 April 2003. The report set out thirty-seven recommendations to the Government, employers and other organisations about how to maintain and develop the supply of people with science, technology, engineering and mathematical skills into research and industry. All his recommendations were accepted by the Government. These included providing additional resources for schools, universities and research bodies, and the promotion of school/business links. The review led to increase of the stipend paid to PhD students, and a number of initiatives to encourage women and young people to consider a career in science. The review of research assessment In June 2002, after the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of 2001, the four funding bodies for UK higher education commissioned Sir Gareth Roberts to review the future of research assessment in the UK. The report "The review of research assessment" was issued for consultation in May 2003. Many of Roberts' recommendations were implemented for the 2008 RAE, the first review following the completion of the consultation exercise. Personal life On 15 August 1962, at George Street Congregational Church, Croydon, he married Charlotte Standen (b.1942) an insurance clerk, and daughter of Albert John Williams Standen a shop manager. They had two sons and a daughter. The marriage ended in divorce in 1993. His second wife, Carolyn Mary Rich, née Butler (b.1948), was a health service executive, trained nurse and daughter of Albert Edward Butler, a musician, and former wife of Stephen Rich, whom he married at Leeds register office on 18 February 1994. She had two daughters from her first marriage. References External links Research Councils UK Joint funding bodies’ Review of research assessment SET for Success, Final Report of Sir Gareth Roberts' Review Roberts recommendations on the UK GRAD programme website Science Council Founding President of the Science Council Obituary in The Daily Telegraph, 22 February 2007 Obituary in The Guardian, 17 March 2007 Obituary in The Independent, 5 March 2007 Obituary in The Times, 20 March 2007 1940 births