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
- Develop public education activities and liaise with the Education Sub-Committee for their implementation
- Coordinate responses to major initiatives relevant to the membership and aims of the BAP
- Coordinate responses to bodies where BAP has stakeholder status
- Extend links between the BAP and other appropriate psychopharmacology societies
- Advise the BAP Office on matters relating to questions from the public or the media
Programmes Sub-Committee Terms of Reference
- To co-ordinate the organisation of scientific meetings run by the BAP and make recommendations on their format to Council
- To review, and accept or reject and organise the abstracts submitted for the annual BAP Summer meeting. The quorum required for this process will be four members of Council which must include the Executive Officer and/or the Meetings Secretary
- The Chair of the Sub-Committee (which will be the Meetings Secretary) will co-ordinate the review of posters at the BAP Summer meeting and together with three additional members of Council will select the poster prize winners
Current Sub-Committees And Working Groups
External Affairs Sub-Committee: Naomi Fineberg (Secretary for Clinical External Affairs)
Paula Moran (Secretary for Pre-Clinical External Affairs
Programmes Sub-Committee: Jo Neill
Supported by Naomi Fineberg, Liz Tunbridge and Val Curran
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