Membership

Name	Status/Structure	Term of Office
Professor Charles Stafford	Vice Chair of Appointments Committee (Chair)	Ex officio
Professor Eric Neumayer	Pro-Director, Faculty Development	Ex officio
Professor Julia Black	Pro Director, Research	Ex officio
Indi Seehra	Director, Human Resources Division	Ex officio
David Coombe	Director, Research Division	Ex officio
Dr Claire Gordon	Director, Teaching and Learning Centre	Ex officio
Jenny Blakesley	LSE Careers Service Director	Ex officio
Kath Scanlon/Dr Antoine Dechezleprêtre	Co-Chairs of the Research Staff Association*	Ex officio
Dr Linda Pickard/Dr Derek King	UCU LSE Representative* ¹	Ex officio
Professor Albrecht Ritschl	Head of Academic Department ²	2015-2017
Dr Tania Burchardt	Research Centre Director ³	2016-2018
Professor Emily Grundy	Principal Investigator ⁴	2015-2017
Dr Siva Thambisetty	Principal Investigator ⁴	2016-2018
Daniel Laurison	Research Staff Member	2015-2017
Dr Baran Doda	Research Staff Member	2016-2018
Professor Declan Conway	Research Staff Member (Professorial Research Fellow)	2016-2018

Secretary: Meeta Bhatt, HR Adviser, Human Resources

Regular attendees (as agreed by the Committee) :

Dr Sarabajaya Kumar (Development Adviser: Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Research Staff, Teaching & Learning Centre)
Catherine Reynolds (PhD/Researcher Careers Consultant, LSE Careers Service)
Anji Mehta - Nominated representative from the Centre Managers Forum 2016-2017
Imran Iqbal - Nominated representative from the Academic Unit Managers Forum 2016-2017

* Co-Chairs of the Research Staff Association will share one vote between them. UCU Co-Representation is valid for 2016-17. Representatives will share one vote between them during this period.

(1) Nominated by LSE UCU membership

(2) Nominated by the Department Heads' Forum

(3) Nominated by the Research Centre Directors' Forum

(4) One of the Principal Investigator members will be located outside a Research Centre

To ensure balance, RSC membership will be confirmed annually by the Appointments Committee.

Term of Office

A normal term on the Committee is one year, renewable up to a maximum of two years. Principal Investigators and Research Staff membership is for two years.

Members should be available to play a full role on the Committee during their term of office – i.e. through a commitment to attend three scheduled meetings (one per term) and to contribute to any Committee business outside of meetings.