Dear Abdullah and everyone,
This was a good prompt for me to provide an update. The inaugural meeting of the BPS Section is on Friday October 8th 1-4pm at the BPS London Offices on Tabernacle St.
For directions to the offices see here: http://www.bps.org.uk/additional-pages/society-offices/society_offices_home.cfm
We can also use the same room in the morning for the CP 'collective' meeting and this can include non-BPS members. I have contextualized this to Susan (BPS members network advisor) as a meeting about taking CP forward in the UK, aside from the section. I will ask Susan to send an email to the section supporters about this informal meeting too - if anyone wants anything specific included on this email let me know.
At 1pm the formal inaugural meeting of the CP section will begin... so really the morning meeting needs to finish at noon to allow time for people to come for the section meeting and for those not participating in the section to leave. The big participatory downside is that we're limited to 80 people in the meeting room at any one time. People must sign in when they arrive for the morning meeting so that they can monitor numbers. They are creating a list for the inaugural meeting - they've had 40 people saying they're coming so far.
The inaugural meeting will include the BPS Gen Hon Sec who formally needs to welcome in the section etc. I don't think she will stay for the whole meeting however. Susan told me that the business of the inaugural meeting does not usually take long. However, I don't think she has met a group of community psychologists before...
So the day looks like this:
10am - noon = non-BPS informal CP meeting
- agenda to be decided on day or discussed on list? But presumably we want it to include an agenda item on the CP Collective and then it's relationship to the BPS Section. Some people may attend this meeting who are not on this list however and we need to remember this in our agenda-setting decisions.
12-1pm lunch
1pm - 4pm BPS Inaugural meeting of the CP section
Proposed agenda for this from the BPS:
1. Welcome by the Society’s Honorary General Secretary, Pam Maras
2. Interim Officers and Committee
3. Month of AGM and frequency of committee meetings
4. Membership fee/joining the Section
5. Adoption of standardized rules for the Section
6. Proposed Induction day at the Leicester office for Officers of the Section Officers
7. Questions
I know these agenda items are prescriptive and create immediate tensions with a critical BPS stance. We will maybe want to add further agenda items to balance this - but this should probably be done on the day by those present. Although this doesn't mean the agenda cannot be discussed on this list too or indeed these agenda items.
If you haven't already, please register that you are coming to the inaugural meeting by emailing:
[log in to unmask] by no later than 25 September 2010 and include your BPS membership number.
I hope this helps.
Sally
PS For those interested: I know I haven't updated about my discussions with BPS management about the membership fee issue (see my previous email), this is because it wasn't hugely useful. In the end, the BPS said they were obliged to set a fee and to start the section because it had been formally voted in by members. Not an unexpected response. If anyone wants to raise the issue further the Director of Membership Services is [log in to unmask]
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