| 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).
Richard Kwiatkowski (Membership Qualifications - appointment October 1991)
Then two additional posts were created:
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, in turn was replaced by John Groeger in 1996
In 1995 the Committee was replaced for an experimental 12 months by a smaller experimental Information Group which met bimonthly.
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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