BACS COUNCIL MEMBERS

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS TO BACS COUNCIL 2009

Members are invited to nominate candidates for Treasurer and Ordinary Council Member on the BACS Council to the Honorary Secretary (Norman Stockman secretary@bacsuk.org.uk) by 10 August 2009. Elections to Council will be held at the BACS AGM on 10 September 2009, to be held at the Joint East Asian Studies Conference at Sheffield. More details.

President

Tim Wright (2008-) Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sheffield. Before that he spent twenty years in Australia, where he was President of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, 1997-1999. His research is on modern Chinese economic history, where he is working on economic fluctuations in the 1920s and 1930s, and on the political economy of the contemporary Chinese coal industry, on which he has published an analysis of coal mining accidents.

Past President

Don Starr, University of Durham
president @ bacsuk.org.uk

Treasurer (2006-)

Jackie Sheehan, University of Nottingham

Honorary Secretary (2005- )

Norman Stockman, (retired, University of Aberdeen, Department of Sociology)
secretary @ bacsuk.org.uk

Administrative Secretary

Editor, BACS BULLETIN (2004-)
Esther Tyldesley
University of Edinburgh
esther.tyldesley [at] ed.ac.uk

Ordinary Council Members:

Kate Elders, British Council (2008-)
Kerry Brown, Strategic China, Liverpool Shanghai Partnership, Chatham House (2006-)
Katharine Carruthers, Specialist Schools Trust (2004- ) katharine at chinacam.demon.co.uk
Jing Gu, Institute of Development Studies (2008- )
Alistair Michie, Auric Digital Ltd, Honorary Associate of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge, Hon Sec of the 48 Group Club (2008- )
Esther Tyldesley, Edinburgh University (co-opted 2005, elected 2006)
Jeremy Taylor, Sheffield University (2008- )
Neil Renwick, Coventry University (2006-)

Schools Liaison Officer:

Katharine Carruthers (2004- ) katharine at chinacam.demon.co.uk

China Postgraduate Network Representative:

isabella.jackson[at]stx.ox.ac.uk (non-voting member)

Chinese Language Teaching Representative:

Huang Dian

Web Manager:

Carol Rennie, carolrennie @ ymail.com (non-voting member)

Past Presidents:

Professor Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics, 2000-2002
Professor Harriet Evans, University of Westminster, 2002-2005
Don Starr, University of Durham, 2005-2008