BAP Sub-Committees & Working Groups

Sub-Committees

Sub-Committees deal with core Council business that previously had an individual Officer on Council taking responsibility. Thus, Education and Training, Programmes and External Affairs are now Council Sub-Committees, chaired by the respective Officer on Council. New Council members will be invited to join one of the Sub-Committees, depending on their interests, so that each has 2-3 members. This serves two main purposes: to relieve one person of the full work load for a particular area, and provide a role and training for new members, introducing an element of succession planning.

While Sub-Committees organised in this way will comprise only Council members, they could, at their discretion, co-opt someone from the general membership for a particular purpose.*

Chairs of Sub-Committees will meet after the July Council meeting to discuss appropriate recruit/s into the Sub-Committees and will then approach the individuals by the end of the summer conference.

* these co-opted members as described in paragraph 2 can be full participants in the Sub-Committee.

Working Groups

Working Groups will be set up to deal with a particular issue, development or project that the Council considered could not be dealt with adequately and/or productively within its regular meetings. Each Working Group will have specific terms of reference agreed at Council, and a time deadline by which to deliver a report to Council. Example of areas that could be addressed in this way include CME initiatives, and the aim to increase the recruitment of young pre-clinical scientists as BAP members.

Each Working Group will be chaired by a Council member, who would have the responsibility of reporting back to Council on the work of the Group. However, the Groups may also contain general BAP members, recruited on the basis of relevant expertise and knowledge, as well as their willingness to serve on the Group.

External Affairs Sub-Committee Terms of Reference

Programmes Sub-Committee Terms of Reference

Education and Training Sub-Committee Terms of Reference

Current Sub-Committees And Working Groups

External Affairs Sub-Committee: Steve Cooper (Secretary for Clinical External Affairs)
Supported by Mohammed Shoaib, Paula Moran, Naomi Fineberg
(Council has agreed that a Secretary for Preclinical External Affairs will be elected in 2008)

Programmes Sub-Committee: Alan Bateson
Supported by Jo Neill, Andrea Malizia, Naomi Fineberg, Catherine Harmer

Education and Training Sub-Committee: Hamish McAllister-Williams
Supported by Peter Haddad, Sasha Gartside (plus others associated with specific events)

Working Group: BAP Consensus Statements
Chaired by Thomas Barnes
Supported by Guy Goodwin, Alistair Burns, David Baldwin, Neil Hunt

Working Group: Retaining BAP Training Members
Chaired by Mohammed Shoaib
Supported by Alan Bateson, Anne Lingford-Hughes, Hamish McAllister-Williams

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  1. BAP in vivo Training Initiative application OPEN on 10th February 2010
    Applications for the 2010 invivo Training initiative funds are now welcomed. Full details, criteria and application form are available here invivo funds
  2. Preclinical Certificate module 4 - registration now open on 9th February 2010
    Preclincal Certificate in Psychopharmacology 'Pharmacokinetics in Psychopharmacology', 7 May 2010. Registration available here; Module 4
  3. Pre-Clinical Certificate Bursary Awards on 29th January 2010
    Application for Preclinical bursaries is available on line Bursary Award deadline is 26th February 2010

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