Committees

ASEASUK has an Executive Committee and a Research Committee. Committee members are nominated by ASEASUK members and are elected at the ASEASUK Conference General Meeting. Both committees have their own Chair and Secretary and committee membership may overlap.For the Executive Committee, the Chair of the Research Committee or in his/her absence the Secretary is a co-opted member, and for the Research Committee, the Chair of the Executive Committee or in his/her absence the Secretary of Executive Committee is a co-opted member.The Executive Committee organises conferences, liaises with other academic organisations, publishes ASEASUK News bi-annually for its members and relevant institutions, and maintains the website.The Research Committee bids for funding from the British Academy and is responsible for the disbursement of grants.

Committee members UPDATE
Aseasuk wishes to announce that, having completed a long term in office, Professor Bob Taylor decided that he wished to stand down  as chair of the Aseasuk Research Committee. He has been succeeded by Professor Tony Stockwell as from 1 September.  Professor Stockwell kindly agreed to take over this year, although he will still be serving simultaneously as President of the Royal Asiatic Society until the Spring of next year. Aseasuk offers its heartfelt thanks to Professor Taylor for his enormous contribution to our work and the very skilful and careful way in which he steered the Committee (and its budget) through the difficult transition from the status of a British Academy-based and funded Committee to an incorporated Committee of Aseasuk. His wise counsel will be very much missed.We also announce that after his tireless work as secretary of the Research Committee, again during the transition from a Committee of the Academy to one within a British-Academy funded learned society, Dr Tim Harperwill be standing down after the next meeting on 26 November. He will be handing over to Dr Becky Elmhirst, who has served as a member of the Research Committee and is on Aseasuk’s Executive Committee and who will assume her official duties from 1 January 2009. Aseasuk wishes to offer its sincere thanks for all the hard work which Tim Harper has put in over the past several years, and the very helpful, constructive  and energetic way in which he has developed our changing relations with the Academy and contributed to the promotion of our successful research programme.