Council and Committees

This page lists the members of the Society's governing Council and other committees.  Committee members are in post until July 2007.

Details of previous BSHS committees are archived here: 2007-8 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003

Council is the elected governing body of the BSHS.  It consists of five Officers and nine Ordinary Members, who meet three times a year to discuss and approve Society business.  Terms of office are as laid out in the Rules and Procedures (available to members by a request to the Executive Secretary.)  Nominations for successors to outgoing members of Council are sought from the whole membership each spring; new members of Council are elected at an Extraordinary General Meeting, held in the summer of each year and open to all BSHS members.

Officers of Council

• President: Dr Jeff Hughes, University of Manchester (web)
• Vice-President: Prof Frank A J L James, Royal Institution, London (web)
• Treasurer: Mr Peter Reed
• Secretary: Dr Viviane Quirke, Oxford Brookes University (web)
• Editor of BJHS: Prof Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge (web)

Ordinary Members of Council

• Dr Tim Boon, The Science Museum
• Professor Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds (web)
• Dr Hasok Chang, University College London (web)
• Dr Fern Elsdon-Baker, University of Leeds (web)
• Dr Patricia Fara, University of Cambridge (web)
• Ms Beth Hannon, Durham University
• Dr Adam Mosley, University of Wales Swansea (web)
• Dr Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Exeter
• Dr Gregory Radick, University of Leeds (web)

The Communications Coordination Committee is responsible for directing and coordinating the Society's print and electronic publications.  It consists of the following members:

• Chair: Dr Peter C Kjaergaard, University of Aarhus (web)
• Newsletter Editor: Dr Rebekah Higgitt, University of Edinburgh
• Assistant Editor: Dr Rosemary Wall, King's College London (web)
• Communications Secretary: Dr Henry Nicholls, Endeavour magazine (web)
• BSHS Monographs Editor & Wheeler Library Director: Dr Joe Cain, University College London (web)
• Website Editor: Dr Michael Hawkins, University of Sussex (web)
• Graduate Member & Committee Liason: Mr Richard Patrick Whaite, University of Notre Dame, London Centre

The Outreach and Education Committee replaced the former BSHS Education Section in 2005.  It is responsible for planning and developing outreach work in a variety of formal and informal educational contexts, and has the following members:

• Chair: Dr Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds (web)
• Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds (web)
• Dr Sabine Clarke, University of Oxford (web)
• Dr Patricia Fara, University of Cambridge (web)
• Sue Howarth, Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton
• Melanie Keene, University of Cambridge
• Julia Hyland, University of Birmingham
• Chris Parkin, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
• Louise Thorn, Imperial College London

The Programmes Committee organises the Society's conferences, colloquia, seminars and other events, and liaises with other societies and institutions on joint and co-located programme activities.  It has the following members:

• Chair: Dr Sally Horrocks, University of Leicester (web)
• Vicky Blake, University of Durham
• Dr Sabine Clarke, University of Oxford (web)
• Dr Gowan Dawson, University of Leicester (web)
• Fern Elsdon-Baker, University of Brighton
• Andy Hammond
• Dr Jeff Hughes, University of Manchester (web)
• Prof Frank A J L James, Royal Institution, London (web)
• Leucha Veneer

The Finance Committee meets annually to scrutinise the Society's annual accounts and the management of its investments, and provides general advice to the Treasurer.  It is chaired by the Treasurer, and also includes the following members:

• Chair: Mr Peter Reed
• Dr Aileen Fyfe (web)
• Dr Joe Cain, University College London (web)
• Prof Charles Withers, University of Edinburgh (web)

• Chair: Dr Jeff Hughes, University of Manchester (web)
• Prof Frank A J L James, Royal Institution, London (web)
• Dr Adam Mosley, University of Wales Swansea
• Dr Patricia Fara, University of Cambridge (web)

• The Society's Archivist, responsible for the preservation and development of BSHS records and archives, is Dr Anna Mayer of the University of Bath.
• Dr Gregory Radick serves as BJHS Reviews Editor independently of his role as an Ordinary Member of Council.
• Society administration in general is dealt with on a paid basis by the Executive Secretary, Lucy Tetlow.