Nomination Form for November 2011 Elections s1

UCML Steering Group and Executive Committee

Nomination Form for November 2011 elections (posts effective from 1st January 2012)

If you wish to stand for election to the UCML steering group/executive please return this form. Your nomination should be supported by a proposer and seconder who will be based in institutions or associations who are members of UCML or of a recognised academic institution/subject association. The form should be returned electronically to UCML’s secretariat c/o Carol Churchouse at the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, to: [email protected]

Deadline for return of nominations: 4th November 2011

Constituency (see list of vacancies below): Hispanic & Lusophone Studies

Nominee: …Professor Andrew Ginger…………………………………......

Institutional affiliation: ………………University of Bristol......

Postal address: ……Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, 17 Woodland Road, Bristol ……BS8 1TE………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….

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Email address: …… [email protected]…………………………………………………………………………………......

Proposed by: ………Professor Trevor Dadson, President of AHGBI…………………......

Institution: ……Queen Mary College, London…………………………......

Seconded by: ……Dr Isabel Torres, Director of Research in Spanish & Portuguese ………………………………………………………………………..

Institution: …………Queens University Belfast …………………………………………………………………………………......

Vacancies: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Representative Candidate’s election statement should include present post, relevant experience and expectations. Candidates are advised to read the relevant role profile and the UCML Constitution and Standing Orders to inform their candidature. (candidates’ statements should not exceed 150 words. They will be circulated to UCML’s membership with the ballot paper)

I have wide experience representing my subject and modern languages in general, having been chair of UCML Scotland, as well as a member of the executive committee of AHGBI for several years, with special responsibility for postgraduate matters. I have extensive experience too of working with national bodies, as a several-times panel member and now strategic reviewer for the AHRC, a REF sub-panellist, and in dealing with the funding council as well as schools sector in my previous UCML role. I have worked with LLAS in the past as a member of the LLAS Advisory Board in Scotland, and with schools through the Scottish Association of Language Teachers. In recognition of my work with Spanish culture, I have been named an Oficial de la Orden de Isabel la Católica. I have wide administrative experience in Higher Education, for example as a former Head of School.