**GROUP NEWS UPDATE**

Dear All,

We would like to thank all those who attended the launch meeting last 
Monday and everyone who sent their good wishes for the meeting. A summary 
of the discussion that took place at the event is attached here.

We are also very pleased to be able to announce that we have just received 
confirmation from the organisers of the BSA Annual Conference 2007 that a 
workshop event for this study group has been included in the conference 
programme.

The title of the event is the: ‘Policy, Technology and Society’ workshop. 
Please find attached an invitation to, and further details re. the focus 
of this event.

FURTHER INFO. – there are two presentation ‘slots’ available to members of 
this study group as part of this workshop and so we are writing to invite 
members to give a presentation as part of this event. If you would like to 
give a short 15 minute presentation on a topic related to the focus of the 
workshop, then please send a short abstract to Angharad Beckett. As time 
is pressing, the deadline for submitting abstracts for this workshop is 
the **26th January**. In the advent of there being multiple abstracts 
submitted, a decision will have to be reached by the workshop organisers 
about which papers ‘fit’ the focus of the workshop most closely.

**There is no requirement that participants in this workshop submit a full 
paper to the BSA in advance of the conference (though they are welcome to 
do so if they so wish). A short presentation is all that is required.**

We do hope to hear from people about this!

Best wishes,

Angharad Beckett.
(And on behalf of Justin Waring).