Dear all,We’re getting ready for the regional meetings and regional steering group meetings – hopefully with the move to May we’ll have better weather for everyone travelling this year. We’re looking forward to catching up with everyone and meeting our newest members in each region.
Upcoming Administration Deadlines
13 April Deadline for E-alerts going out on 20th April
21 April Deadline for Awards for Service and Inspirational Member & Inspirational Committee Awards
27 April Deadline for E-alerts going out on 4th May
27 April Deadline for Chemistry Week grant applications
11 May Deadline for E-alerts going out on 18th May
25 May Deadline for E-alerts going out on 1st June
8 June Deadline for E-alerts going out on 15th June
Upcoming Events
24 - 25 April Local to you Career Consultations, Bournemouth
26 April Member Network committee meeting, London
2 May Scotland Regional Steering Group meeting, Glasgow
4 May North West Regional Steering Group meeting, Manchester
8 - 10 May Local to you Career Consultations, Glasgow
10 May Eastern Regional Steering Group meeting, Cambridge
11 May Midlands Regional Steering Group meeting, Nottingham
16 May South West Regional Steering Group meeting, Bristol
17 May Wales Regional Steering Group meeting, Swansea
2 – 18 May Regional Meetings (see below for more details)
5 - 7 June Local to you Career Consultations, Dundee St. Andrews
19 - 21 June Local to you Career Consultations, Manchester
14 July New Officers Briefing day, Burlington House, London
14 September Celebration of Local Sections 2017, Burlington House, London
26 September Interest Group Forum, Burlington House, London
Communications from across the RSC
Regional meetings 2017
Invitations for the Regional Meetings are currently being sent out. The venues for this year’s Regional Meetings are:
- Glasgow, Scotland – 2nd May
ABode Hotel Glasgow
- Newcastle, North East – 3rd May
International Centre for Life
- Manchester, North West – 4th May
Midland Hotel
- Brighton, South East – 9th May
Hilton Brighton Metropole
- Cambridge, Eastern – 10th May
Hughes Hall
- Nottingham, Midlands – 11th May
East Midlands Conference Centre
- Bristol, South West – 16th May
Armada House
- Swansea, Wales – 17th May
Brangwyn Hall
- Dublin, Ireland – 18th May
Hilton Dublin City Centre
If you have any questions about the Regional Meetings, please contact networks@rsc.org.
Awards for Service and Inspirational Award
Please consider nominating your inspirational colleagues or your own committee.
The deadline for nominations for our Awards for Service and Inspirational Member and Inspirational Committee Awards is 21 April 2017.
Any member can submit a nomination for any of these awards. Guidelines and nomination forms are available online:
Annual Reports
Thank you to all the groups that have completed their annual report for 2016.
A reminder that all RSC Networks must complete their annual report form in addition to the annual financial report. The activity report will be considered by staff and whichever body our Council has nominated to oversee the activities of the network. The reports will be put on the network’s own homepage at www.rsc.org for their members to read and shared with relevant staff members.
Regional Steering Groups – Roles and Responsibilities
Purpose
The Regional Steering Groups provide a regional governance structure for our geographical networks, allowing our members to discuss and escalate both regional and national issues.
The purpose of the groups is to:
- Encourage communication and collaboration between all of our member networks on a regional basis
- Ensure that all geographical networks are encouraged to consider the needs of the full breadth of our community
- To act as a conduit for communication between our member networks and the governance structure
- To discuss and inform staff on matters of regional importance
It was agreed by the review panel that the purpose of these groups was not to organise any activities.
Members
To ensure that these groups are representative of our community each contains the following:
- Representatives of all member networks committees in the region.
- Representatives of specific sectors of our membership (Early Career, Academic, Industry and Interest Group) – these members are not representing any network but are asked to present their own opinion as a member of their sector.
- Chemists’ Community Fund Regional Volunteer Coordinator
Updated brand centre user guide
Please be aware that the guidelines for our brand centre have been updated. The new guidelines are available online.
2017 Grant
We have now processed the 2017 grants for our Local Sections in the UK and Ireland and our Interest Groups. Many thanks to those committees who submitted all of their paperwork in a timely fashion.
If your committee has not yet received your 2017 grant this is likely to be because the full set of mandatory paperwork has yet to be received. To clarify please feel free to email networks@rsc.org.
This newsletter including additional information from other departments is also available online. 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 Team
Fiona, Nic & Stephanie
Mythbusting
Did you know?
While our Education Coordinators cannot be part of any of our member networks committees they are experts who are happy to be invited to attend a committee meeting to offer advice on any education or outreach matters.
Additional information from other departments
Analytical Training for Africa
‘Analytical Science Sans Frontieres’ It started with an old GC instrument. Ten years on, a thriving cross-border collaboration is giving Africa’s analytical community a boost.
https://theanalyticalscientist.com/fileadmin/tas/pdf-versions/TAS_Issue_0217.pdf
UK-Africa Collaboration Opportunities
We are collaborating with the Royal Society to fund International Exchanges between the UK and sub-Saharan Africa. Up to £12,000 is available to fund travel and research costs. Closing date 13th June 2017.
https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/international-exchanges/
Newton- Utafiti Fund launched by Kenya and UK Governments to enable UK-Kenya collaboration. For more information:
http://www.newtonfund.ac.uk/about/about-partnering-countries/Kenya/
Pan Africa Chemistry Network (PACN)
Supporting African Science – join our LinkedIn Group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1900756 or follow us on Twitter #PanAfricaChem