LATEST NEWS: updated 1/12/08

The 2008 Annual General Meeting of Scientists for Labour wll take place at 13.00 – 15.00 in the Boothroyd Room at Portcullis House, Westminster, SW1A 2LW.

All members are cordially invited to attend. Non-members will be made most welcome.

 Agenda

1. Minutes of 2007 AGM, see Science Matters 33.

2. Matters arising

3. Chair's Report

4. Secretary's Report

5. Conference report

6. Treasurer's Report

7. Editor’s report

8. Report on Socialist Societies

9. Election of EC members (nominations to Paul Connell)

10. AOCS

Reports will be on paper so that business can proceed smartly as we only have two hours.

SfL’s response to the Select Committee inquiry

14.40 pm A discussion on SfL’s response to the Select Committee inquiry. Speaking to this debate will be Dr Martin Yuille, Director UK DNA Banking Network at The Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, University of Manchester, and Dr Ian Gibson MP, former Chair, and longstanding member, of the committee and SfL’s most active Patron.

15.20 pm John Unsworth will lead a discussion on how we can use the Science section of the Education Policy Commission report (a copy of the  relevant extract from the report can be downloaded as a Word document here) to spread the message among the science community and support any future General Election campaign. The meeting will end at 15.50 sharp as we need to be out of the room by 16.00 We will then adjourn the meeting and recommence at the: Cole Room at the Headquarters of the Fabian Society down the Road 11 Dartmouth St London SW1H 9BN.

THE LATEST EDITION (Autumn/Winter 2008) OF SCIENCE MATTERS can be downloaded as an Adobe file by clicking here.

AGM REPORT

The minutes of the 2007 AGM, held at the House of Commons on July 10th 2007, are available as an Adobe Acrobat file via this link; the minutes of the EC meeting following the AGM are available here.

Martin Yuille's presentation to the AGM entitled Making Research Policy in the EU and the UK can be downloaded as a PowerPoint presentation by following the link. If you do not have PowerpPoint a free viewer may be downloaded via this link. Open Office (www.openoffice.org) also provides a free program, Impress, that is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint. Alternatively, you may wish to view the presentation as an Adobe Acrobat file.