Council

BERA’s work is managed by an Executive Council. This consists of up to 12 Elected members (including three Officers), up to 6 Co-opted members and a small number of Observers. Each member of Council holds a portfolio responsibility for various aspects of BERA’s work. BERA also employs a Chief Executive to drive forward all its activties.

BERA Council is led by a number of ‘Officers’ – the President, Vice President and the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer.

The Officers meet in between the meetings of the full Executive Council to ensure that BERA’s operational and strategic business is on track throughout the year. In addition to the roles mentioned above, the Conference Committee Chair, the Chief Executive and a representative from the BERA Office also attends these meetings.

The Association is a registered charity and the Council members are Trustees of the chartity.

Officers
John Gardner – Queen’s University, Belfast
President
j.gardner@qub.ac.uk

Pamela Munn – University of Edinburgh
Vice President
Pamela.Munn@ed.ac.uk

Colin Rogers – University of Lancaster
Treasurer
c.rogers@lancaster.ac.uk

BERA Office
Jeremy Hoad – Chief Executive
Jeremy may be contacted through the BERA Office (details below) and by email:
jeremy.hoad@bera.ac.uk

Lynne Fletcher – BERA Office
BERA Office, South Park Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 6SH
Tel: 01625 504062 Fax: 01625 439754
Email: admin@bera.ac.uk

Council Members
Vivienne Baumfield – University of Glasgow
V.baumfield@educ.gla.ac.uk

Kalwant Bhopal – University of Southampton
k.bhopal@soton.ac.uk

David Bridges – University of East Anglia
d.bridges@uea.ac.uk

Hilary Burgess – The Open University
h.m.m.burgess@open.ac.uk

Anne Campbell – Leeds Metropolitan University
a.j.campbell@leedsmet.ac.uk

Donald Christie – University of Strathclyde
donald.christie@strath.ac.uk

Susan Davies – Trinity College
s.m.b.davies@trinity-cm.ac.uk

Ross Deuchar – University of Strathclyde
ross.j.deuchar@strath.ac.uk

Danny Durant – Worcestershire LEA
danny@handwlea.demon.co.uk

Elaine S Freedman – University of Bath
e.s.freedman@bath.ac.uk

Sean Hayes – Greenwich Council
seanhayes@greenwich.gov.uk

Ruth Leitch – Queen’s University, Belfast
R.Leitch@qub.ac.uk

Uvanney Maylor – London Metropolitan University
u.maylor@londonmet.ac.uk

Ian Menter – University of Glasgow
imenter@educ.gla.ac.uk

Alis Oancea – University of Oxford
alis.oancea@education.ox.ac.uk

Andrew Pollard – University of London, Institute of Education
A.Pollard@ioe.ac.uk

Sally Power – Cardiff University
powers3@cf.ac.uk

Pat Thomson – University of Nottingham
patricia.thomson@nottingham.ac.uk

Peter Twining – The Open University
p.twining@open.ac.uk

Samantha Twiselton – University of Cumbria
Samantha.Twiselton@Cumbria.ac.uk

Portfolios

Portfolios for 2009-10 are currently being considered. 2008-09 portfolio responsibilities are listed below for reference.

STATUS	MEMBER	PORTFOLIO	TERM ENDS
Officers	John Gardner	President (2009-11) Vice President (2011-12)	2012
	Pamela Munn	Vice President (2009-10)	2010
	Colin Rogers	Treasurer & Honorary Secretary	2011
Elected Members	Kalwant Bhopal	Diversity & Outreach Conference Committee	2012
	Hilary Burgess	Training & Development Conference Committee	2012
	Donald Christie	Training & Development Website	2012
	Susan Davies	Wales	2010
	Ruth Leitch	Northern Ireland SIGs	2010
	Uvanney Maylor	Membership Development	2011
	Alis Oancea	Research Intelligence External Consultations	2012
	Andrew Pollard	SFRE TLRP liason	2010
	Sally Power	Publications Committee Chair	2012
	Ralf St Clair	Research Intelligence (Primary individual on this portfolio) Disseration Award	2010
	Pat Thomson	Training & Development (Primary individual on this portfolio)	2012
	Samantha Twiselton	Conference Committee	2010
Co-opted Members	David Bridges	EERA liaison Capacity Building	2011
	Danny Durant	Conference Committee Chair	2010
	Elaine S Freedman	BERA Audit Committee Chair	2010
	Sean Hayes	Local Authority Children’s Services	2010
	Peter Twining	Website (Primary individual on this portfolio)	2010
Observers	Vivienne Baumfield	BERJ editorial team Conference Committee	2010
	Anne Campbell	BERA/SAGE Practitioner Awards BERA Meeting of Minds Awards	2010
	Ross Deuchar	SERA liaison	2011
	Ian Menter	UCET liaison	2011