ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY

ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW ARCHAEOLOGY COMMITTEE 
The Academy wishes to hold elections for a new Archaeology Committee. You are invited to vote in the elections. 


To vote in the elections, you are required firstly to join the Electoral Register, by entering your details on this website: http://www.keysurvey.com/survey/242389/1afb/. If you have a professional interest in Archaeology, are living on the island of Ireland, and have an email address, then you are invited to join the Electoral Register.  Please pass this notice to any persons you feel may be interested. 


Members of the Electoral Register are also eligible to stand for election to the Committee by nominating themselves. 


Registration for the Electoral Register closes on 1 May 2009, at which point we will issue a call for nominations for election, which must be received by 15 May 2009. The election will close on 4 June 2009. 


If you have any queries please contact Anisa Brennan (a.brennan@ria.ie). 


You may have been sent this notice in your capacity as a representative of your organisation. Please forward the message to all those in your organisation who may wish to register.  
 


About the Committee:

The Academy Committee for Archaeology is the representative body of the main institutions involved in archaeology in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Its mission is:

To promote and support study and research in Irish archaeology primarily through its role in adjudicating on applications for Government-funded research excavation grants and for Academy archaeological research grants.
To offer advice on policy matters relating to archaeology.
To deal with matters of archaeological concern that may arise.
For more information on the activities of the committee in its previous term, please visit the committee’s website: http://www.ria.ie/committees/archaeology/index.html 


The Academy has recently adopted new terms of reference for all its Committees with the aim of assisting it to better deliver on its core mission of promoting research and scholarship. An important part of this plan involves the invigoration of its network of Academy Committees.  It is intended that a key group of members of each of the Committees be chosen from an electoral register which will be based on a wide electorate of people with an interest in the Committee’s work. 


The Archaeology Committee’s new term of office will begin in June.