**Apologies for cross posting. Sent on behalf of Sarah Evans (RGS-IBG)**
Please see below for a call for nominations for a new IGU Task Force for Young and Early Career Geographers. Please circulate within your networks and direct any questions to [log in to unmask]
With thanks and best wishes,
Sarah
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Dear Members of the IGU Community
One of the key points in the Strategy of the current IGU Executive Committee is to stimulate young geographers to participate in IGU activities. The establishment of a new Task Force for Young and Early Career Geographers is an important potential instrument in this respect.
Who is the Task Force for?
IGU can – and indeed should - do more for those young geographers that aim to pursue an academic career: Masters students, PhD candidates, postdocs and early career lecturers and assistant professors who do not perhaps yet have tenure. Several Commissions already have a Young Members Board (for example the Commissions on Political Geography and on Urban Geography) but this will be a Task Force dedicated to the involvement of young and early career geographers in the IGU community more broadly.
What will the Task Force do?
The Task Force, once established, should set its own agenda, but some possible activities could include:
-special days for young and early career geographers during IGU conferences and congresses
-summer/winter schools
-workshops on career development, research proposal development, academic writing, publication strategies, academic teaching, etc.
-network meetings during conferences and congresses
-mentoring by senior IGU members
How can the Task Force be established?
We are seeking initially the names of five young/early career geographers who can be invited to initiate the Task Force for Young and Early Career Geographers. They will then be invited to compile a full steering committee and are encouraged to organize special activities at the International Geographical Congress in Beijing in August 2016. One of our EC members will act as liaison for the newly formed Task Force.
What can you do?
What is required immediately is to form the core of the Task Force and we need the names and contact details of young and early career geographers that you and your community believes could make a contribution to this effort. Please send the names and contact details (affiliation, email address most importantly), together with a brief (1-3 sentences) motivation as to why you think they would be suitable to [log in to unmask] by 10th November 2015.
Kind regards
Mike Meadows
Professor Mike Meadows
Secretary-General and Treasurer
International Geographical Union
Department of Environmental & Geographical Science
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch
7701
South Africa
Tel: +27 21 650 2873
Fax: +27 21 650 3456
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