| Description | Minutes, correspondence and agenda papers of the British Psychological Society BPS Information Committee includes
27 April 1993 Information Committee Minutes and Papers includes costings and mock-up for special student edition of The Psychologist; meeting with the Science Museum concerning psychology exhibits; 'Disastrous Decisions lecture by the Special Group for Psychologists in Central Government; updating of Chartered Psychologist leaflets; 'What Has Psychology Done' annual report responses from subsystems; dissemination of research in the international media; reports from responsibility holder for Society Qualifications and for recruitment; Information Committee terms of reference; response from COPUS on the Future of the BBC white paper;
27 October 1993 Information Committee Minutes and Papers includes student column in The Psychologist, National Science Week [see BPS/001/11/03/09], budget, recruitment letter, society badged scarf; video interviews with the 'great and the good' of psychology; meeting with Science Museum concerning psychology collections and displays; role of TV spokesperson; report on 'Careers Destination' information for psychology graduates; response to Green Paper on the Future of the BBC; reviving local BPS representation in Psychology departments; responses from subsystem on new form of BPS Annual Report 'What have Psychology Done?'; public lectures proposals; Parliamentary Officer annual report and plan; The Psychologist readership survey tender documents; Qualification Representative Officer annual report and plan; mock-up of Psychology student material for undergraduates, 'Psych-Talk BPS Students' newsletter; issues from Professional Affairs Board to consider (Europe, promoting registration as a public protection issue, growth of Trusts); report from Books and Special Projects Group; format of Committee papers; proposed joint working group with Association for the Teaching of Psychology on producing a media programme; |
| 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) - became subsumed into Press and Media role in 1993
Ann Colley (Charter Promotion - taking over from the Charter Promotion Group).
Then additional roles were created:
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.
In 1995 the Committee was replaced by a smaller experimental Information Group which met bimonthly.
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