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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.
Georgina Mace (Chair)
Charles Godfray
Bill Sutherland
Richard Bardgett
Drew Purves
Libby John
Andrew Beckerman
Juliet Vickery
Alan Gray
Dave Hodgson
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.
Libby John (Chair)
Nicky Souter
Mark Langan
Lesley Batty
Ros Roberts
Simon Ward
Katharine Jones
Helen Adamson
Thomas Ezard
Will Gosling
Greg Hurst
Thea Powell
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.
Drew Purves (Chair)
Georgina Mace
Charles Godfray
Dave Hodgson
Libby John
Andrew Beckerman
Juliet Vickery
Alan Gray
Tim Blackburn
Emma Goldberg
Greg Hurst
Rosie Hails
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.
Richard Bardgett (Chair)
Drew Purves
Libby John
Andrew Beckerman
Juliet Vickery
Adam Vanbergen
David Coomes
Jeff Bale
Ruth Mitchell
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.
Andrew Beckerman (Chair)
Julia Blanchard
Till Eggers
David Pearce
David Coomes
Will Gosling
Emma Sayer
Paul Ashton
David Murrell
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.
Bill Sutherland (Chair)
Andrew Beckerman
Tim Blackburn
Alan crowden
Karsten Schonrogge
Thomas Ezard
David Coomes
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.
Dave Hodgson (Chair)
Drew Purves
Paul Raven
Alan Gray
Ruth Mitchell
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.
Juliet Vickery (Chair)
Julia Blanchard
Jeff Bale
Emma Goldberg
Paul Raven
Andrew Pullin
Carly Stevens
Rosie Hails
Emma Pilgrim
Rob Brooker
Julia Jones
Jonathan Wentworth
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.
Alan Gray (Chair)
Tim Blackburn
Thomas Ezard
Rosie Hails
Paul Raven
Adam Vanbergen
Cecile Bacles
Phil Warren
Duncan Irschick
EJ Milner-Gulland
Mike J. Hutchings
Tim Coulson
Rob Freckleton
