IGALA Advisory Council Elections - job descriptions

[Jane Sunderland]

Dear all
 
Further to the request for nominations for the Advisory Council, please
find below 'job descriptions' for AC positions in general, and for the
'Graduate Student representative' in particular. The request reappears
below these. I hope this is helpful, and will encourage many of you to
nominate others of you.
 
Please note that the current information on the Advisory Council on the
website is out of date in terms of both roles and people, and will be
updated soon to reflect these descriptions.
 
Best wishes
 
Jane Sunderland and Vicky Bergvall
 
 
Advisory Council 'Job descriptions'
- monitoring and promoting language and gender research in their own
specialist area within IGALA

- monitoring and promoting language and gender research within their own
geographical region

- carrying out various tasks and serving on sub-committees or working
parties of IGALA as required (for example, web-site monitoring, essay
competition, local event/branch development and co-ordination, 'talking
to the world' - see Minutes of last AGM on IGALA website

HYPERLINK
"http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/activities.html"http://
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/activities.html

- suggesting to the IGALA Executive/Advisory Committee further
IGALA-related activities

- actively contributing to IGALA Exectuive/Advisory committee e-mail
discussions

 
Graduate Student Representative

 

·        to bring issues to IGALA that are of concern and importance to
graduate students

·        to work with other IGALA members and members of the Executive
Committee to make graduate students an active and visible presence
within IGALA

·        to facilitate graduate contributions’ to and representation at
the IGALA conferences and their involvement in other professional
activities

·        in coordination with the conference organizers and other
members of the IGALA executive committee and membership, to develop one
graduate student workshop at each IGALA conference on a topic or topics
relevant to the professional and intellectual development of graduate
students and junior academic staff/faculty

·        to be a member of the committee in charge of the IGALA Graduate
Student Essay Competition (to be chaired by the President-Elect/Vice
President)

 

Previous e-mail message

IGALA is seeking between 5 and 8 members for the Advisory Council, to
replace current Advisory Council members. We are looking for as broad a
geographic spectrum as possible (in particular, non-English-dominant
countries). One Advisory Council member will be a Graduate Student
Representative. The other members should be able to represent key areas
of gender and language research, and, together, a range of research
priorities.

Advisory Council members will be part of the IGALA Executive Committee
and will attend (in person or electronically) all meetings if at all
possible. The first of these will be at IGALA5 in Wellington, New
Zealand (July 3-5, 2008); the next will be an e-meeting around 12 months
after that. The term of office will be 3 years.

Nominations should be made to the IGALA Secretary, Ana Cristina
Osterman. Please make sure you send your nomination to her
<aco at unisinos.br> rather than to the entire list.

The closing date is Monday Dec. 24 2007. Both 'nominators' and
candidates must be members of IGALA. Please indicate if the person
you're nominating is being nominated as the Graduate Student
Representative.

Elections will take place after the end-of-year break.

Best wishes to all

Vicky Bergvall (IGALA Vice President/President Elect) and Jane
Sunderland (IGALA President)

 
Jane Sunderland
Director of Studies, PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework
and New Route PhD
Dept. of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
Lancs. LA1 4YT
 
HYPERLINK "mailto:j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk"j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk
 
For the new Gender and Language Journal (details and subscriptions), see
 
HYPERLINK
"http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60"http://www.equinoxp
ub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60
 
 

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