| Description | Minutes, correspondence and agenda papers of the British Psychological Society BPS Information Committee includes
16 October 1990 Information Committee Agenda and Minutes includes terms of reference, minutes of the final meeting of the Standing Committee on Communications 25 June 1990, actions plans for Press Committee responsibility holder Chris Brewin; TV Spokesperson James Thompson; proposed responsibility holder for International Affairs; action plan for Parliamentary Officer - John R Sheppard, Training and Support Group, Charter Promotion Group; report from COPUS [Committee on the Public Understanding of Science] seminar on 'The Role of the Learned Society and Professional Body' 18 September 1990; membership of the Committee;
17 December 1990 Information Committee Agenda and Minutes includes role of TV spokesperson; Press Committee action plan; 'Internal Communications and the Press Committee'; 'Parliamentary Officer' revised action plan and budget; Charter Promotion Group workplan; Training and Support Group work plan [set to dismantling of the group]; proposal for an responsibility holder for Membership Qualifications and Registration; Books and Special Projects Group report; careers publications; Internal Communications audit (includes list of BPS and subsystems publications); proposal for responsibility owners for International Affairs; funding for printing ALSISS [Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences] Report.
27 February 1991 Information Committee Agenda and Minutes includes careers material 9and copy of 'BPS Careers Pack' leaflet, checking mechanism for press releases; potential sponsorship of MPs; representation on the Finance and General Purposes Committee; dismantling of the International Committee in favour of a network; Internal Communications Audit; Diploma in the Applied Psychology of Teaching - press release, drafts and correspondence; roles of responsibility holder for membership, qualifications and registration; and copy of Finance and General Purposes Standing Committee Minutes 15 November 1990 including resolution on Information Committee representation.
25 June 1991 Information Committee Agenda and Minutes includes proposed committee on the promotion of Equal Opportunities; setting priorities, proposed What Is Psychology video; internal communications; review of careers literature; membership recruitment; 'A Consultative Paper on Growth in the Number of Society Subsystems - Divisions, Sections, Special Groups and Branches); distribution of 'Putting Psychology to Work'; 'Task Force on the Implications of Changing Trends in Professional Psychology; case for sponsorship of a Member of Parliament by the British Psychological Society; meeting costs;
1 November 1991 Information Committee Agenda, Minutes and correspondence includes proposed information policy, Royal patronage; need for London telephone number; extension to the Society Code of Conduct, careers video; publication feedback from article in the Psychologist about the Committee and whether an information policy is needed, applications to be responsibility holder for Membership recruitment; costs of printing and distribution 'Putting Psychology to Work'; responses to call to SubSystems about psychologists employment opportunities; responsibility holder for the promotion of Society Qualifications; draft BPS guide for writing psychological evidence to a non-psychologist audience 'Written Evidence for the Outside World'; careers material; budget; Promoting Psychological Research in the Social Sciences (effect of new funding on psychological research in higher education); British Psychological Society involvement in United Kingdom Inter-Professional Group leaflet on 'Women in the Professions'; proposed British Psychological Society promotional booklet; market research for The Psychologist to find out whether meeting members needs and whether it could be adapted for non member readership; Parliamentary annual report and action plan.
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| AdminHistory | The British Psychological Society BPS Information Committee was founded in October 1990 to replace the Standing Committee on Communications and the Standing Press Committee with aim of being the managing and co-ordinating body for the Society's public relations and communications activities.
Individual activities were to be undertaken by a network of responsibility holders - Honorary Officers who presented their action plans to the committee. The aim was to have a flexible structure for short and long term projects as well as reactive to external events or subsystems needs. It was not envisaged that this network would be responsible for all communications activity but provide training, advice, support and action plans. Initially there were four responsibility holders:
Mike Burton (Press and Media)
John Sheppard (Parliament)
James Thompson (TV)
Ann Colley (Charter Promotion - taking over from the Charter Promotion Group).
Richard Kwiatkowski (Membership Qualifications - appointment October 1991)
Members of the Committee included the responsibility holders, the President, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary General Secretary, representatives from the Boards, The Psychologist Editorial Committee and the Books and Special Projects Group.
The Committee was initially chaired by Anne Colley but Ray Bull became chair on 1 November 1991, he was replace by Mike Bruton and then by John Groeger.
In 1995 the Committee was replaced by a smaller experimental Information Group which met bimonthly for an experimental year. At the end of this period it was felt that a Board should be established to bring together all of the information and communication functions within the Society.
In 1997 John Groeger wrote a paper for Council proposing that the Information Committee be replaced by a Communications Committee. The first meeting of the new Communications Board was December 1998 |
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