On this page you can find detailed information about all our core Departmental committees, groups and meetings, which are listed below in alphabetical order.
If you wish to feedback regarding any of the meetings, or access former minutes/agendas, please contact the administrator for that specific meeting, who is listed under the 'membership' drop-down.
Please note that we endeavour to organise committees, groups and meetings in core hours, 10.00am to 12noon and 2.00pm to 4.00pm, however, on occasion this may not be possible.
Once per term.
Meeting administrator: TBC
2 x HoD
2 x Chair DRC
Director of the TF
Lead – Biochemistry Module Committee
Teaching Coordinator – YSBL
Chemistry rep re: Biochemistry
DHoD (T&S) from Biology
For 2020-21 – Jeremy Mottram (lead, York Biomedical Research Institute)
Once per semester
Meeting administrator: Victoria Ott
BioEDG Leadership Team
Betsy Pownall (Chair)
Angela Lipscomb
Lucy Hudson
Elva Robinson (Athena SWAN)
Alastair Droop (Data Analysis)
David Kent (Research Strategy)
Undergraduate Reps
Alexander Aksut
Simran Rai
Postgraduate Research Student Reps
Karla Cardenas Gomez (Ethnic Minority Rep)
Maria Pattichis
Postdoctoral Research Associate Rep
TBC
ECR / Academic
Ines Hahn
Daniel Jeffares
Technical Staff
Subedar Pandey
Support Staff
Alexandra Fox (LGBTQ+ Rep)
James Fox
Gen Res Team
Phil Lang
Chris MacDonald
Teaching Team
Gareth Evans
Louise Jones
Student Support Team
Calvin Dytham
Richard Waites
SAS Rep (as available)
Stephanie Ellis
Ann Mathe
Fran Oliver
Graduate Team
Kanchon Dasmahapatra
Peter Mayhew
Chemistry Department Rep
Leonie Jones
Once per term.
Current and past agendas and minutes can be found on the Biology Sustainability Group Google Shared Drive. If you would like to see documents from meetings prior to 2020, please contact the Meeting Administrator (see below).
Meeting administrator: Louise Simpson
Chair: Lucy Hudson
All staff and students are welcome to participate in meetings. Please contact the meeting administrator if you would like to be added to the distribution list for emails and calendar invites.
The meeting is held twice a year.
Meeting administrator: Victoria Ott
Chair - Deputy Chair of DRC - Michael Plevin
BTF Director - Peter O'Toole
BTF Lab Heads and Steering Group Chairs
Members of the Board of Examiners are involved in a variety of meetings at different stages in the academic calendar. At the end of each stage of a degree programme, the following meetings are held in Biology:
Module Exam Board - Spring term Friday week 8
Module Exam Board - Summer term Friday week 9
PGT Progression Board - Summer term (mid-term)
Ratification Panel - Summer term week 10
Resit Ratification Panel - early September
PGT Ratification panel - mid-September
Minutes from Module Exam Board and Ratification Panel meetings are available in the Board of Examiners google drive folder
Constitution of the Board of Examiners
See University Ordinance 6 for information on the Consitution of a Board of Examiners
For procedures on Boards of Examiners see Guide to Assessment, Standards, Marking and Feedback Section 16.3
Meeting administrator: Student and Academic Services staff
All teaching members of the Board of Studies are members of the Board of Examiners, as are the External Examiners; also any members of the academic and academic-related staff of the University who have assessed any of the students under consideration, and any other individuals recommended by the Board of Studies to, and approved by, the Standing Committee on Assessment may be members of the Board of Examiners.
The BoS meets as follows:
Week 11 Autumn term: Friday
Week 11 Spring term: Friday
Week 12 summer term: Wednesday
Agenda's, papers and minutes from 2013/14 to current are available in the Board of Studies google drive folders
Ordinance 1:
Ordinance 2:
Meeting administrator: Aimee Grundy
The University’s Ordinances set out the membership requirements within the constitution of Boards of Studies (Ordinance 1), all academic staff are members.
Meets monthly on the first Thursday of the month (no meeting in August).
Please contact biohod@york.ac.uk if you wish to obtain agendas, minutes or any other information pertaining to these meetings.
Meeting administrator: PA to Head of Department
Chair: Head of Department
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching)
Deputy Head of Department (Staffing)
Deputy Head of Department (Research)
Deputy Head of Faculty Operations
Chair of the Board of Studies
Director of Postgraduate Studies
Director of York Biomedical Research Institute (YBRI)
Director of Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP)
Director for Students
Operations Manager
Finance Representative
HR Representative
Planning Representative
The Dean of Sciences (attends once a term where possible)
Once per term
For up-to-date minutes, please see the following Biology Research Committee webpage: https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/biology-research-committee/#tab-3
For Terms of Reference, please see the following Biology Research Committee webpage: https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/biology-research-committee/
Meeting administrator: Marie Fleming
Chair: David Kent
Deputy Chair: Ines Hahn
Head of Department: James Moir
Research Away Day Lead: Pegine Walrad
Research Facilitator: Jane McCarthy
CNAP Rep: Neil Bruce
BTF Director: Peter O'Toole
Early Career Researcher Rep: Paul Fogg
Postdoc Rep: Katrien Van Bocxlaer
BGSB Chair: Kanchon Dasmahapatra
BSF Manager: Haley Daniels
Management Accountant: Rebecca Ryan
YBRI Rep: Jennifer Southgate
Impact Champion: James Chong
Ethics Committee Rep: Will Brackenbury
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Sciences: Jane Hill
Research Focus Leads:
Ian Hitchcock, Nia Bryant, Jenny Southgate (Health & Disease)
Seth Davis, Katherine Denby, Daniela Barilla (Plants, Microbes & Biotechnology)
Dan Franks, Angela Hodge, Jane Hill (Ecology, Evolution & Modelling)
Once per term
All documents can be viewed in the Biology Staff Meetings Google Drive.
Meeting administrator: Louise Simpson
All Departmental staff are invited to attend these meetings, and they are a good opportunity to hear what's going on in the Department and at University level as well at network with colleagues.
Once a year
Meeting administrator: Carol Jones
Biology Operational Manager (Chair), Lucy Hudson
Estates Works Manager
Estates Operations Manager
Estates Zone Manager
Estates Electrical Technician
Estates Building Maintenance Surveyor
Estates Mechanical Engineer
Estates BEMS Officer
Estates Asbestos Coordinator
Estates Helpdesk Team Leader
Biology Deputy Operations Manager
Biology Health & Safety Advisor
Biology Horticulture Manager
BSF Manager
H&Q Lab Manager
Examinations Committee meet twice a year to consider examination questions/papers and also has a joint policy meeting with Teaching Committee in September.
Minutes from 2013/14 to current are available in the Examination and Teaching Committee google drive folders
Meeting administrator: Mike Nolan
Nia Bryant
Leo Caves
Sangeeta Chawla (Secretary)
Kanchon Dasmahapatra
Seth Davis
Darren Goffin
Pen Holland
Antje Kuhrs
Louise Jones (Chair)
Peter McGlynn
Frans Maathuis
Peter Mayhew
Patrick Murphy
Michael Schultze
Katie Smith
Pegine Walrad
Once per term.
Meeting administrator: Monica Bandeira
Director (appointed by HoD; Chair) - Prof Gavin Thomas
Deputy Director (appointed by HoD) - Dr Peter Mayhew
Director of Students - Prof Richard Waites
Chair of Biology Board of Studies - Dr Gareth Evans
PGR Training and Development Officer - Dr Amanda Barnes
PGR Admissions Officer (appointed by HoD) - Dr William Brackenbury
International Recruitment Officer (appointed by HoD) - Dr Ville Friman
BBSRC DTP Programme Manager - Dr Betsy Pownall
NERC ACCE Programme Manager - Dr Dan Franks (DTP2) & Dr Kanchon Dasmahapatra (DTP1)
Biomedical Sciences PhD Programme Manager - Prof Paul Genever
Experimental Medicine & Biomedicine Research Group (HYMS) Representatives - Dr Dimitris Lagos (Head) & Dr Marjan van der Woude (HYMS Director of PGR Studies)
Chair of Departmental Research Committee - Dr David Kent
Departmental Financial Officer - Ms Fiona Scaife
Departmental Employability Manager - Mr Phil Lang
Student Engagement Managers - Ms Frances Oliver & Ms Stephanie Ellis
PhD student representative (elected annually through GSA) - Ms Orlagh Anderson
International PhD student representative (elected annually through GSA) - vacant
MSc by Research student representative (elected annually through GSA) - Ms Megan Kerr
BBSRC DTP student representative (elected annually through the DTP) - Mr Alexander Scott & Ms Evie Farnham
NERC ACCE DTP student representative (elected annually through the DTP) - Mr Jacob Anderson
Academic member of Research Admissions Committee - Prof Katherine Denby (tbc)
Student and Academic Services Manager - Ms Ann Mathe
Research Student Officer (minutes secretary) - Ms Monica Bandeira
York Graduate Research School representative - Dr Daniel Ungar
Once per term.
For current and historical agendas and minutes, please visit this Google Folder. Please note that this folder holds documents for 2022 onwards. For 2021 and older, please contact the meeting administrator below.
Meeting administrator: Gelayol Holme
Chair: HoD, James Moir
Operations Manager, Lucy Hudson
Departmental Safety Advisor, David Nelson
Departmental area ‘Safety Monitors’
Staff with specialist health and safety duties and/or responsibilities
Trade Union Safety Representative(s)
Director of Health & Safety (and/or representative) will be invited to attend
Representation from postgraduate students
Other members of the University responsible for certain aspects of the infrastructure or procedures
Once a month.
This group does not run a formal agenda and minutes, however, actions are added to the rolling actions list above on a monthly basis so people can be aware of the activities being prioritsed/discussed.
Angela Lipscomb (DHFO) Chair
Pen Holland (DHoD Teaching) Student Support/Infrastructure
David Nelmes (Dept IT)
Emma Barnes (Research IT & Faculty IT)
Gareth Walker (PDLT Team)
Richard Fuller (Asst IT Director Infrastructure)
Alastair Droop (TF/Bioinformatics)
Colin Beale (Ecology Research Groups)
Dan Jeffares (Bioinformatics/data Sci Research)
Andrea Harper - CNAP Rep
Ines Hahn (BioMed Rep)
Emma Rand (Data Sci Teaching)
Autumn Term week 5
Spring Term week 9
Summer Term 11
Minutes from 2013/14 to current are available in the relevant Module Committee google drive folders
Meeting administrators:
Biology - Lizzie Millican
Biochemistry - Aimee Grundy
Biomedical Sciences - Mike Nolan
Chairs:
Biology - Pen Holland
Biochemistry - Set Chong
Biomedical Sciences - Paul Pryor
Membership:
All members of academic staff in Biology, and relevant staff from Departments
4 times per year - January, April, late May/early June and early October
Meeting administrator: Fran Oliver
Richard Waites (Chair)
Stephanie Ellis
Rachel Hope
Dave Boucher
Patrick Murphy
Darren Goffin
Tony Wilkinson
Once per term.
Meeting administrator: Gelayol Holme
Chair: Department Manager
All teams/corridors in Biology have been asked to nominate a representative who will be responsible for bringing points for discussion and giving feedback to their teams. This is a development opportunity for staff and a chance for better two way communication. The current membership list can be found here, but please contact the meeting administrator to add/remove staff from the membership list.
Teaching Committee meets as follows:
Joint meeting with Examinations Committee in September each year
Week 8 Autumn term
Week 10 Spring term
Summer term if required
Agendas, papers and minutes from 2013/14 to current are available in the Teaching Committee google drive folders
Meeting administrator: TBC
Chair
Associate Head of Department (internal)
Director Teaching and Learning
Chair of Biology BoS
Associate Chair of Biology BoS
Biology Student Services Manager
Chair of each Module Committee
Chair of Examinations Committee
Quality Officer
Senior Admissions Tutor
Timetabler
Twice per year: January/February and June/July.
Meeting administrator: SAS Manager/Department Manager
Chair: Deputy Head of Department (T&S)
Head of Department
Department Manager
Director of Students
Chair of Board of Studies
Chair of Teaching Committee
Teaching Quality Officer
Chair of Exams Committee
Programme Leaders for Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, MSc programmes
© 2011 - 2021 University of York | Legal Statements | Wiki Accessibility Statement