| Description | Correspondence, notes of meetings, review of technical needs and reports concerning new roles and functions for the production of The British Psychological Society journal The Psychologist, after the resignation of the managing Editor Elizabeth Mapstone.
In May 1993 the Finance and General Purposes Committee agreed that the production and editorial support of The Psychologist be placed under the general management of the Director of Information as part of the creation of the Information Department running publishing, press, The Psychologist and sub-system [member network] periodicals functions. |
| 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; Editor: Maryon Tysoe 1997-2000, Managing Editor Jon Sutton 2000-date[2018]
Assistant Editor Stephen White 1995-1998; 1998-2018 Peter Dillon-Hooper
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
Honorary Editor Hugh Foot 1992-1997
The Psychologist Editorial Committee succeeded the Editorial Sub-Committee and reported to Council.
Chairman of Psychologist Editorial Committee Graham Davey 1990-1992; Hugh Foot 1992-1995
The Psychologist Policy Committee 1995-date
See also The Psychologist January 2013 'Looking Back: A Quarter of a Century of The Psychologist' |
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