2019 AGM
AGM MINUTES
Language Policy BAAL SIG AGM
Date: Thursday 29th August 2019
Location: Manchester University
Chair: Elisabeth Barakos
Apologies received from: Florence Bonacina-Pugh, Dave Sayers, Rachel O’Neill, Yongcan Liu, Diana Camps, Iker Erdocia
Attendees: Peter de Costa
Minutes taken by: Elisabeth Barakos
Conveners’ report (co-convened by Dr. Florence Bonacina-Pugh & Dr. Elisabeth Barakos)
Committee:
Co-Founders and Co-Convenors: Elisabeth Barakos (Aston University) Florence Bonacina-Pugh (The University of Edinburgh)
Membership secretary: 2017-2019 Tae-Hee Choi (The Education University of Hong-Kong); 2019 - present Diana Camps (University of Stirling)
Treasurer: 2017-2019 Yongcan Liu (University of Cambridge) – 2019 - present Iker Erdocia (Dublin City University)
Events secretary: Rachel O’Neill (The University of Edinburgh) & Communications secretary: Dave Sayers (University of Jyväskylä)
Thanks go out to former committee members:
Membership secretary Tae-Hee Choi (The Education University of Hong-Kong)
Treasurer Yoncgan Liu (University of Cambridge)
Both served for two years in our SIG committee and fulfilled their roles in the most diligent and proactive way. They also contributed to many other numerous tasks as part of the day-to-day running of the SIG and were involved in conference organisations. Thanks to you both!
Our activities
Language Policy Forum held annually
Track of presentations at the BAAL annual conference (tomorrow Friday, from 10am, chaired by Robert Higgins, in room 1.66) – see BAAL programme
Discussion list, www.langpol.ac.uk, Twitter @langpolicy
Recent activities of the LP SIG
Organisation and hosting of the Second Language Policy Forum 2019
Organisation of the Third Language Policy Forum 2020 at the University of Cambridge, 7-8 May 2020
Representation at the inaugural event of the new BAAL SIG Multilingualism in London July 2019
Development of Code of Conduct (see website www.langpol.ac.uk)
E-election of new Treasurer (Iker Erdocia) and Membership Secretary (Diana Camps) in Spring 2019 (for another three-year period)
Membership secretary’s report: Diana Camps
Membership is free in our SIG; sign-up via mailing list
Current members: 438 (as of 14 August, 2019), and numbers keep growing, making the Language Policy group one of the biggest SIGs of BAAL
The SIG members represent more than 44 countries worldwide.
Treasurer’s report: Iker Erdocia
The general financial situation of the Language Policy SIG is healthy.
Previous financial year (1 June 2018 to 31 May 2019):
Surplus obtained from the first Language Policy Forum held at Sheffield Hallam University 2018 was £3072. The last statement date (28 May) was £3,375.70 (including a £200 sponsorship for LPF2019).
Looking ahead, our finance is expected to be strong with surplus generated from the Language Policy Forum 2019
The final report of the conference is being processed and will be included in next year’s SIG financial report in due course. We expect a profit of £1158, which is similar to the target of surplus set in our original financial plan.
The committee intends to gradually increase the financial reserve to £4,500 over a period of three years to enable the SIG to build capacity and strengthen its reputation through funding activities such as postgraduate training, talks, workshops and policy forums. We believe that we are on course to meeting this goal.
Events secretary’s report: Rachel O'Neill
Successful Second Language Policy Forum 2019 at The University of Edinburgh (30-31 May 2019)
Highlights: Over 90 international delegates from Europe, N and S America, Africa and Asia; Two Plenaries, Editors’ panel, Rapid Networking Session and Book Raffle
Further events planned: Third Language Policy Forum Cambridge 2020
Making our events inclusive, affordable, accessible, diverse, accommodating to needs of scholars across all career stages and with different needs and caring responsibilities
Communications secretary’s report: Dave Sayers
Maintenance of website: www.langpol.ac.uk; mailing list: https://jiscmail.ac.uk/LANGPOL (join, it’s for free)
our own committee mailing list
Presence in social media through Twitter @langpolicy
Future plans...
Increase our social media presence on Twitter @langpolicy
Launch a competition for the creation of our own BAAL SIG logo
Future events
Third Language Policy Forum, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education
Date: 7-8 May 2020
Conference theme: Language Policy and Global Human Movement,
Local Organising Committee:
Yongcan Liu (local chair), Karen Forbes and Linda Fisher