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The following Committees guide and direct the work of the BES.
Management Board
Education, Training & Careers Committee
Finance Board
Grants Committee
Meetings Committee
Membership Committee
Personnel Committee
Public & Policy Committee
Publications Committee
Management Board
Management Board manages the business plan and acts as an executive of Council.
Professor Charles Godfray (Chair)
Malcolm Press
Kate Lessells
Mike Begon
Calvin Dytham
John Lee
Hefin Jones
Dan Osborn
Sue Hartley
Education, Training and Careers Committee
This Committee is responsible for curriculum development at all levels of formal education including educational development projects, development and publication of teaching materials, production of careers advice, overseeing grants related to schools and expedition grants. Details of educational activities and career information can be found on the Education information pages.
Dr Libby John (Chair)
Lesley Batty
Margaret Palmer
Nicky Souter
Mark Langan
Alastair Lavery
Ros Roberts
Mark Smith
Simon Ward
Katharine Jones
Helen Adamson
Thomas Ezard
Finance Board
The Finance Board develops policy options within finance and internal affairs as well as monitoring income/expenditure and overseeing the management of the Society's investment portfolio.
Dr Calvin Dytham (Chair)
Malcolm Press
Charles Godfray
Greg Masters
John Lee
Hefin Jones
Dan Osborn
Sue Hartley
Tim Blackburn
Peter Carey
David Thompson
Gareth Phoenix
Grants Committee
This Committee is responsible for all the Society's grants. The Committee undertakes periodic reviews of the Society's grant schemes and their administration.
Professor Mike Begon (Chair)
Malcolm Press
Calvin Dytham
John Lee
Hefin Jones
Dan Osborn
Jeff Bale
Steven Sait
Dave Hodgson
Adam Vanbergen
David Coomes
Meetings Committee
This Committee is responsible for all the Society's academic meetings. It administers the Annual Meeting, runs the Annual Symposium and Special Symposium from programme development to publication, assesses proposals for future meetings, co-ordinates the activities of the Specialist Groups, and oversees student support, workshop sponsorship, commemorative events fund, and financial support for meetings run by associated organisations e.g. INTECOL.
Dr Hefin Jones (Chair)
Dave Hodgson
Tim Rotheray
Andrew Beckerman
David Burslem
Matthew Davey
Ronnie Edmonds-Brown
Till Eggers
David Pearce
Meg Pollock
Lazslo Nagy
Alan Crowden
David Coombes
Membership Committee
Primary responsibility is the maintenance and development of services to members including the Bulletin, the website and other membership. It shares responsibility for admittance of new members with the Finance & Policy Committee and is responsible for increasing recruitment of new members.
Dr Kate Lessells (Chair)
Greg Masters
Hefin Jones
Jeff Bale
Tim Blackburn
Andrew Beckerman
Gareth Phoenix
Alan Crowden
Thomas Ezard
David Coombes
Personnel Committee
This Committee is responsible for setting the employment policy of the Society, setting terms and conditions of Blades Court staff, considering staffing levels and overseeing contracts of employment.
Dr Greg Masters (Chair)
Calvin Dytham
Sue Hartley
Margaret Palmer
Public and Policy Committee
The remit of this Committee is very wide indeed and it is responsible for raising awareness of ecology outside the formal education system. Specific responsibilities include liaison with external organisations, publicity, Ecological Issues booklets, meetings aimed at a non-scientific audiences and administering the Public Engagement and Ecology Into Policy grants. The PPC consists of BES Council members together with a number of co-opted members whose skills and expertise are needed to cover the wide range of interests the Committee has to deal with.
Dr Peter Carey (Interim Chair)
Lesley Batty
Jeff Bale
Tim Rotheray
Colin Hindmarch
Katherine Monk
Andrew Pullin
Jennifer Shay
Carly Stevens
Dan Osborn
Rosie Hails
Publications Committee
Its remit is to publish papers in journals, and maintain and enhance their scientific standards and their profitability. It liaises with Wiley Blackwell and looks at the future development of academic publishing.
Professor Sue Hartley (Chair)
Tim Blackburn
Andrew Beckerman
Gareth Phoenix
David Thompson
Adam Vanbergen
Lesley Batty
Alison Holt
Phil Warren
Charles Fox
Jane Memmot
Mike J. Hutchings
Graeme Hays
Rosie Hails
