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 Chief 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

Education and Training Sub-Committee Terms of Reference

To monitor BAP educational programmes
To review content and structure for each educational programme
To review any substantial changes to existing programmes
To review speakers - how many, back-ups, potential for new recruits
To review any proposals for new initiatives to enable appropriate coordination in terms of audience, presenters, administration
To review costings of all initiatives -- what we charge, what we pay contributors
To advise on implementation of any initiatives to educate the public

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