Regional Meeting Guidelines
The organisation of each meeting is undertaken by a representative from the host institution, whose duties include:
- Making all the necessary bookings (lecture theatres, lunches and refreshments)
- Inviting the Keynote Lecture(s)
- Where possible, arrange for post-doc fellows to speak
- Seeking the local contributions (oral and poster)
- Preparing and distributing the programme for printing.
- Finalising all the local arrangements, including projection, catering numbers, poster stands, accommodation arrangements for guests.
- Seeking further external sponsorship.
- Notify the Organic Division office of the meeting convenor and venue for the following year.
The procedure to apply for support from the Organic Division will be straightforward:
- Initial proposal for meeting to be sent to the Secretariat of the Organic Division Council including a request for financial support with an estimate of the costs involved.
- Organic Division will acknowledge and if appropriate agree to support the meeting.
- Final report from the meeting (approx. 1 page A4) will be sent to the Organic Division Council, along with a summary of the expenditure, at which point the outstanding financial support from the Organic Division will be paid.
Current regions are:
- Scotland; (e.g. Glasgow, Aberdeen, St Andrews, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Dundee, Herriot-Watt)
- South and West; (e.g. Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Southampton, Reading, Oxford)
- Midlands; (e.g. Nottingham, Leicester, Loughborough, Sheffield, Birmingham, Warwick)
- North East; (e.g. Newcastle, Durham, Leeds, York)
- South and East (e.g. London, Cambridge, East Anglia, Open University)
- North West (e.g. Manchester, Liverpool)
- Ireland; (e.g. Cork, Galway, Dublin)
Finances (as at October 2011):
- Organic Division Council will allocate up to a maximum of £2,500 for each Regional meeting.
