| Description | Minutes, correspondence and agenda papers of the British Psychological Society BPS Information Committee includes
7 May 1992 Information Committee Minutes and Papers includes distribution of 'Putting Psychology to Work' books to two hundred companies; recruitment responsibility holder work plan; responses to proposed Information policy; Royal status of Society; annual report of press officer; alternate Society annual report ''What Has Psychology Done This Year'; record of press called 14 -21 January 1992; Charter promotion responsibility holder no longer required; report of responsibility holder for Society qualifications; recognition of certificate of Competence in Occupational Testing by test publishers; liaison between the Standing Committee for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities (SCPEO) and the Information committee;
7 October 1992 Information Committee Minutes, Correspondence and Papers includes distribution of 'With People In Mind' video; research on destination of psychology graduates; upcoming issues (HEFC Research Assessment Exercise; research grants; Science White paper), psychology component of initial teacher training; defence of professional standing; launch of counselling psychology special group; enquiry into the role of 'Special Hospitals', changing nature of professional psychology, statutory registration, structure of the society, increase in occupational psychologists, development of student and affiliate membership); expert testimony training package; applying for Royal status'; alternate annual report 'What Has Psychology Done'; Parliamentary Officer, Recruitment and Society Qualifications responsibility owners annual reports and action plans; budgets; 'Under Oath' expert testimony training package proposal, careers videos; review of 'The Society, Its Structure - A Guide'; proposed student edition of The Psychologist; Science Museum psychologist collections; 'Membership Growth Campaign for The British Psychological Society' research recommendations by David Bostock; |
| 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) , from 1993 Margaret Mitchell
John Sheppard (Parliament)
James Thompson (TV)
Ann Colley (Charter Promotion - taking over from the Charter Promotion Group).
Richard Kwiatkowski (Membership Qualifications - appointment October 1991)
John Cooper (Recruitment - appointment January 1992)
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, in 1993 Mike Burton became Chair, he was replaced by John Groeger in 1996.
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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