| Description | Minutes, agendas and papers of the British Psychological Society Psychologist Policy Committee PPC [for the Society in-house Journal 'The Psychologist' includes
22 January 1998 Psychologist Policy Committee Minutes, agenda and papers includes Committee membership; Psychology on the News Stands Feasibility; response to Princess Diana's death and copy cuttings responding to Special Edition; proposed Young [Student] Writers Competition, Associate Editor procedures briefing; redesign tenders; ideas for centenary articles; referring articles about innovative research; Editor workload and hours;
4 June 1998 Psychologist Policy Committee Minutes, agenda and papers includes student writer competition, appointment of Laura Golding as Associate Editor; redesign proposal; Editors workload and time allocation; SCPEO guidelines [equal opportunities]; proposed extra pages and colour advertisements; special issues policy;
24 September 1998 Psychologist Policy Committee Minutes, agenda and papers includes Committee membership, coverage of radio and tv output as well as media watch; redesign of The Psychologist, articles about Society's staff, Centenary articles, wordcount, awards; response to attacks on the profession in the media; increase in Editor's hours, submitted manuscript update and word count
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| AdminHistory | The Psychologist is the in-house magazine for members of the British Psychological Society. The first issue was January 1988 - it was a successor to the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society [previously Quarterly Bulletin of the British Psychological Society] 1948-1987.
Managing Editor Elizabeth Mapstone 1987-1993;
Honorary Editors The Bulletin Mary Boyle and Ray Bull 1981-1987
Honorary Editors Glynis Breakwell and Graham Davey 1987-92. From this point onwards there was only one Honorary Editor
Honorary Editor Hugh Foot 1992-1997 [from this point onwards there was a paid Editor]
Editor Maryon Tysoe 1997-2000, Jon Sutton 2000-date [2018]
Assistant Editor Stephen White 1995-1998; Peter Dillon-Hooper 1998-2018
1. The Editorial Sub-Committee was a SubCommittee of the Standing Committee on Communications until December 1989. It acted as a policy making body on all issues regarding The Psychologist; act as an adviser to the Managing Editor and the Honorary Editors; act as a 'reviewer' of past issues of 'The Psychologist'
Chairman of Editorial SubCommittee Mary Boyle 1987, Glynis Breakwell June 1988 - January 1990
2. The Psychologist Editorial Committee succeeded the Editorial Sub-Committee and reported to Council. Assistant Editors were responsible for ideas and some copy for features, reviews, art work etc. There was also a team of Associate Editors who were responsible for generating and reviewing academic articles. The differentiation between academic and feature articles was gradually blurred.
Chairman of Psychologist Editorial Committee Graham Davey 1990-1992; Hugh Foot 1992-1995
The Assistant Editors became Associate Editors in 1995 after the review of the Committee in 1993-1994 and a staff member Stephen White became the sole Assistant Editor. The PEC lost its editorial function and its name changed to reflect this.
3. The Psychologist Policy Committee PPC May 1995-date [2018] replaced the Psychologist Editorial Committee PEC
Chairman Hugh Foot 1995-1997; Mary Boyle 1997-2000; Graham Powell 2000-2004
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