It is important that all the members of the committee are thanked in this brief report; they have worked hard in an often complex and difficult environment; they are senior members of the profession, or eminent lay people, with many demands on their time. The work of the committee would be impossible without the skill, effort and dedication of the staff at the office, especially Lisa Morrison Coulthard and Elizabeth Beech, who have provided an incredible level of professional and personal support. Richard Kwiatkowski, Chair
Standing Conference Committee This has been a very successful year for the Committee. The Annual Conference in Brighton was held in glorious sunshine and was attended by 515 delegates. Keynote speakers included Professor Kerry Chamberlain, Professor Janet Treasure, Professor Richard Ryan and Professor Andy Ellis. The new format, following on from the highly successful Dublin conference, seems to be in line with members' wishes. The 2009 Student Lectures were held in Edinburgh (a disappointing attendance of 120) and London (with more than 600 delegates again filling Kensington Town Hall). These lectures continue to receive excellent feedback and are an important feature of Society provision. The 2010 lectures will be in London and Nottingham, with the latter receiving support from Nottingham Trent University. The 2010 Annual Conference will be held in Stratford-upon-Avon (14–16 April) and we aim to reach the same delegate numbers as at Brighton 2009. We received an overwhelming number of submissions for this conference following our call for abstracts, more than 300 in total (an increase of over 50 per cent on the previous year) – for further details about the conference visit www.bps.org.uk/ac2010. In 2011 Annual Conference returns to Glasgow from 4–6 May and it is hoped that this will prove to be as popular a location as it was for the Centenary conference of 2001. The conference venue will be the Marriott Hotel, which is in the city centre with easy access to shops, restaurants, pubs and museums, providing additional attractions to what will be an exciting social and scientific programme. Further information on these and other Society conferences can be found at www.bps.org.uk/conferences. Ken Brown, Chair
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