Dear Carol
I will certainly send you the info asap. In the meanwhile would you please
take notice of my new email address [log in to unmask]
Thanks
Alda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Dixon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:38 PM
Subject: Request for summaries of BASA members' research interests
> At a recent Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA) Management
Committee
> Meeting (held at the Institute of Education on Thursday 13th June 2002) it
> was decided to begin collating detailed information about the research
> interests, activities, projects and campaigning interests of the
> Association's membership. Some of this information will be aggregated to
> form part of the supporting data that is included with BASA's forthcoming
> application for Heritage Lottery funding (to be submitted next month), and
> all the biographies received will also be incorporated into a database
> housing information about individual and collective research activities of
> the membership.
>
> All members of BASA are invited to submit a short summary (i.e. mini
> biography) of up to 300 words about themselves and their research
interests,
> structured as follows:
>
> * Your name:
> * First year of BASA membership:
> * Reason(s) for joining BASA and details of past/present research
> interests
> * Details of past/present involvement in BASA sub-committees (e.g.
> BASA Education Sub-Committee; BASA Research Resources Working Party
> (formerly the BASA Archives Working Party), etc.)
> * Brief statement about other organisations to which you are
> affiliated that are concerned with the history and lived experiences of
> black, Asian and other minority ethnic peoples in the UK - particularly
if
> you currently serve (or have served) in an official capacity on behalf of
> the Association
> * List of contributions to the BASA Newsletter - e.g. feature
> articles, book reviews, biographies of historic figures, conference
> summaries, + any other ('one-off' or regular) contributions to a specific
> section of the newsletter
> * Details of any published books, journal articles, web site
reports,
> conference proceedings, exhibitions, and/or news reports, etc. that you
have
> contributed to that feature the history of black and Asian peoples in the
UK
> * Date you submitted your summary to BASA
> * Your email address
> * Your tel. contact number (optional)
>
> Please return your summary to the BASA Management Committee (c/o Ms
Carolyn
> Abel, email [log in to unmask]), preferably by Friday 5 July.
>
> If you would like to return your summary/biography by post, please send it
> c/o Marika Sherwood, BASA Secretary, ICS, 28 Russell Square, London WC1B
> 5DS.
>
> Many thanks
> Carol (on behalf of Carolyn Abel, BASA Mgt. Cttee.)
>
> NB: Any information supplied to the BASA Management Committee will be
stored
> in a database and will eventually become part of the Association's
archive.
>
> Biographies can, of course, also be returned via email to this list serve
> (hosted by Jiscmail, c/o [log in to unmask]), but please be advised that
> this is an open, public list and, therefore, all your data will be
viewable
> by non-members and members of the Association alike.
>
> The biographies of members of the BASA Management Committee will be
collated
> and published in the Association's newsletter (ISSN: 0969-4722) later in
the
> year.
>
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