Dear all,We are happy to inform you that both Fiona and Nic are back from maternity leave and are getting back into the swing of things. Due to the changes in the team in the last year we can now clarify that while all team members are happy to help with all enquiries the main points of contact for each network are as follows:Local Sections (Worldwide) and International Representatives – Stephanie ComteInterest Groups and Early Career Network – Nic BygraveRegional structure and governance – Fiona McMillan
You can still contact all of us by emailing networks@rsc.org.
Upcoming Administration Deadlines
9 February Deadline for E-alerts going out on 16th February
14 February Deadline for financial Reports
23 February Deadline for E-alerts going out on 2nd March
24 February Deadline for Annual Reports
28 February Deadline for financial Reports international Local Sections
9 March Deadline for E-alerts going out on 16th March
27 March Deadline for Interest Group Top-up funding
30 March Deadline for E-alerts going out on 6th April
Upcoming Events
14 February Career consultations, London
20 - 21 February Local to you Career Consultations, Oxford – waiting list
6 - 7 March Local to you Career Consultations, Nottingham – waiting list
9 March Early Career Network committee meeting, London
13 March India Regional Meeting / ISub Regional Steering Group meeting, Bangalore
13 - 15 March Local to you Career Consultations, Swansea
16 March South East Regional Steering Group meeting, London
20 March North East Regional Steering Group meeting, York
23 March South West Regional Steering Group meeting, Bristol & Southampton
27 - 29 March Local to you Career Consultations, York
24 - 25 April Local to you Career Consultations, Bournemouth
26 April Member Network committee meeting, London
8 - 10 May Local to you Career Consultations, Glasgow
5 - 7 June Local to you Career Consultations, Dundee St. Andrews
19 - 21 June Local to you Career Consultations, Manchester
Communications from across the RSC
Regional meetings 2017
This year’s Regional Meetings will be held over three weeks in May. Dates, cities and venues are still subject to confirmation but we are hoping not to deviate too much from the proposed schedule below. Once we have received confirmation the Regional Meetings will be on the events database and invitations will start to be sent.
- Scotland Regional Meeting, Glasgow, 02 May 2017
- North East Regional Meeting, Newcastle, 03 May 2017
- North West Regional Meeting, Manchester, 04 May 2017
- South East Regional Meeting, Brighton, 09 May 2017
- Eastern Regional Meeting, Cambridge, 10 May 2017
- Midlands Regional Meeting, Nottingham, 11 May 2017
- South West Regional Meeting, Bristol, 16 May 2017
- Wales Regional Meeting, Swansea, 17 May 2017
- Ireland Regional Meeting, Dublin, 18 May 2017
Awards for Service and Inspirational Award
The awards for service and inspirational Award will be open for nominations soon. An email will be sent to all Chairs of member networks committees inviting them to submit nominations. However, everybody can nominate anybody.
Local to You Career Consultations
The Royal Society of Chemistry team of qualified careers specialists will be in various different regions offering free one-to-one, confidential consultations on any aspect of career management.
For those of you who have a careers visit booked in your section, Laura Woodward, will have been in touch to ask you permission to share the Local Section details on the email invite that goes to members. By doing so, we can provide additional exposure to members in your section. The careers team in turn will also be happy to share and highlight any events you are running.
Networks Newsletter onlineThis newsletter including additional information from other departments is also available online.We are aware that some of our members have had issues receiving emails sent through our maxemail system and this is being addressed. For the time being to ensure that all of our volunteers have access to the information in the networks newsletter it will now also be publicly available on MyRSC . Please feel free to encourage other members of your committee to read the newsletter online.
We welcome any feedback you have on what you would like included in this newsletter; please email any suggestions to networks@rsc.org.
Kind regards,The Networks TeamFiona, Nic & Stephanie
MythbustingDid you know?Due to the Governance review the General Assembly is being paused for 2017. However, following the regional structure review, there will be two new member events in 2017; a celebration day of Local Section activities and the Interest Group Forum. Further information will be forthcoming.