Dear all,
The 2017 AGM of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) will take place at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Kensington on Thursday 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:
* Dissertation Prize Coordinator: This post is a three-year term (in the first instance) and the role involves coordination of the dissertation prizes. The role involves advertising the Group’s dissertation prize through appropriate media, arrange the judging, liaise with the Treasurer and any sponsors in arranging the prize, conducting interviews with winner(s) and liaising with the website officer to display examples of winning entries from previous years. The role also involves in sitting on the panel of the dissertation prize. The dissertation prize coordinator will usually be involved in SCGRG’s wider committee activities.
* Ordinary Committee Member: This post is a three-year term (in the first instance). While without specific responsibilities, ordinary committee members would usually be involved in the SCGRG’s wider committee activities i.e. part of the judging panel for our undergraduate dissertation prize. Ordinary committee members may also be asked to provide support for named roles.
* 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.
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. Hariet Hawkins – [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 Thursday 24th August 2017. The elections will be held at the AGM itself.
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 Harriet and Rhys.
Best wishes,
Rhys (SCGRG Secretary, on behalf of the SCGRG committee)
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