{"id":4572,"date":"2023-03-27T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T11:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T11:45:56","slug":"bars-executive-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=4572","title":{"rendered":"BARS Executive Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BARS is delighted to announce the results of the online elections for the new Executive Committee that took place earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following role-holders were confirmed for re-election for terms to last until summer 2024:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>President: Anthony Mandal<\/li><li>Treasurer: Cassie Ulph<\/li><li>BARS Review Editor: Mark Sandy<\/li><li>Website Officer: Matt Sangster<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The following role-holders were successfully elected for a first term of two years, to last until summer 2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Vice-President: Jennifer Orr*<\/li><li>Membership Secretary: Yimon Lo<\/li><li>Communications Officer: Amy Wilcockson<\/li><li>Bursaries Officer: Gerard McKeever<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>* Jennifer Orr was also reconfirmed in her role as Secretary; however, given her election to the VP post, the Executive will be opening up the Secretary role for application in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting opened on 13 March 2023 and closed on 19 March 2023. The turnout was 48. Members\u2019 eligibility to vote was confirmed before the results were ratified. A breakdown of each election will be published in due course. The Executive is grateful to BARS Members who voted in the election and gave the new Executive a clear mandate to move forward over the coming year and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the Executive Committee, both incoming and outgoing, will be meeting online on 29 March 2023 to decide the business for 2023\/2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As President and on behalf of BARS, Anthony would like to welcome our incoming members \u2013&nbsp;Jennifer, Yimon, Amy and Gerry \u2013 along with those who will be continuing in their Executive roles, whether elected or co-opted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, we would extend our gratitude to those outgoing members of the Executive, who have generously given their time to serving BARS in recent \u2013&nbsp;and in some cases many \u2013 years, especially when they have faced considerable duties elsewhere: Gillian Dow (outgoing Vice-President), Tess Somervell (Membership Secretary), Anna Mercer (Communications Officer) and Daniel Cook (Bursaries Officer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARS is delighted to announce the results of the online elections for the new Executive Committee that took place earlier this month. The following role-holders were confirmed for re-election for&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=4572\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4573,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}