Dear all,
Just a reminder that AGM of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) will take place at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London on Wednesday 31st August at 18.45pm (Sunley Room, RGS Building). All are welcome to attend.
We have three vacancies for Committee positions as current post-holders complete their terms of office:
*Chair: This is a three-year term (in the first instance) and the role involves coordination of the group’s activities. Each January the chair prepares the annual report with the Secretary and the Treasurer, and provides an interim report at the AGM in August/September. The Chair normally attends the RGS-IBG Research Groups Committee at the RGS, normally in October and March. The chair will usually be involved in SCGRG’s wider committee activities i.e. part of the judging panel for our undergraduate dissertation prize.
* Postgraduate Representative: This post is a one-year term (in the first instance) and the role involves liaising with the RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum, engaging with postgraduate issues through our SCGRG postgraduate blog and working with our other postgraduate representative(s) on related events and activities. The PG representative would usually be involved in SCGRG’s wider committee activities i.e. part of the judging panel for our undergraduate dissertation prize.
* Conference Activities Officer: This post is a key and important role for the group. The conference officer leads the coordination the group’s sponsorship and organisation of sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference each year and other events and activities. The role involves compiling call for sessions proposals, liaising with session proposers, and organising the vote on the proposals by the committee.
Nominations for successors (who must be a Fellow or Postgraduate Fellow of the RGS-IBG) are now open. Nominations must be in writing to the Chair (Prof. Peter Adey – [log in to unmask]) and Secretary (Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones – [log in to unmask]) with the name of two nominators (these need not be Fellows of the RGS-IBG or existing committee members). The deadline for nominations is Wednesday 24th August 2016. The elections will be made at the AGM itself. NOTE: for the Chair position we would like a short statement of how the nominee sees their role as Chair and their vision for the research group.
Further opportunities to be elected to a named role or as an ordinary committee member may become available during the AGM itself. We’ll also be discussing different ways that our wider membership can get involved with SCGRG.
If you have any questions about any of the above posts or about SCGRG more broadly, please e-mail Peter and Rhys.
Best wishes,
Rhys (SCGRG Secretary, on behalf of the SCGRG committee)
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