Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Faculty Board

SSH08-A2

NOTICE OF MEETING

A Meeting of the Faculty Board will take place on Tuesday 11 November 2008 at 9.30 am in the Council Chamber, Administration Building 2.

AGENDA

1. Apologies for Absence

2. Business of the Agenda

Any member wishing to unstar an item is asked to notify the Secretary by midday on Monday 10 November 2008. Starred items will otherwise be taken without discussion.

Please note that those papers for items in Section B and C which are not circulated with this agenda will be found on the University Web pages linked to the following URL:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/committees/ssh_fb/index.html

3. Minutes (web link)

SSH08-M1

To confirm and sign, subject to any amendment, the Minutes of the Meeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty Board held on 22 May 2008.

4. Matters Arising from the Minutes Not Appearing Elsewhere on this Agenda

4.1 Establishment of History at Loughborough

To note progress on establishment of History at Loughborough (Professor Webber).

4.2 School of Sports Science Initiatives

To note progress - (Professor Nimmo).

SECTION A - Items for Discussion/Report

5. Constitution and Terms of Reference of the Faculty Board (web link)

SSH08-P5

To receive the constitution and powers of the Faculty Board and consider whether they are fit for purpose.

6. Faculty Business for 2008/09

To note the main Faculty business agenda items for 2008/09.

7. Dean’s and Associate Dean’s Reports

To receive reports from:

7.1 The Dean

7.2 The Associate Dean (Teaching)

SSH08-P6

7.3 The Associate Dean (Research)

SSH08-P7

8. Periodic Programme Reviews

SSH08-P8

To receive the periodic programme review reports from the Department of Social Sciences and the Department of Economics and to consider the Departments’ response.

9. Award of degrees (tabled)

To award Higher Degrees to candidates whose examinations have been conducted since the last meeting of Senate.

10. Consultancy

To consider consultancy services available to the University.

(Julie Taylor, Consultancy Manager, Enterprise Office)

11. Imago

To receive an update on improvements in service provision by Imago to Loughborough University.

(Kay England, Chief Executive of Burleigh Court and Holywell Park)

12. Estates Strategy for the Faculty

To note progress and consider the estates strategy for the Faculty.

SECTION B: Formal ‘starred’ items for Approval

*13. Associate Dean (Teaching) Action

To ratify actions taken by the Associate Dean (Teaching) in approving the following:

i. Waivers of Programme Regulations

ii. Appointment of Programme Boards

iii. Credit Transfers

Further details of the actions are available from the Faculty Board Secretary upon request.

SECTION C: Items for Information

*14. The role of the Faculty Board (web link)

SSH08-P9

To receive information on the role of the Faculty and Faculty membership for new Board members.

*15. External Examiner Reports

To note that reports of External Examiner’s have been deposited with the Faculty Board Secretary and are available for consultation on request.

*16. Personal Titles

To note the award of personal titles and to offer the Faculty’s congratulations:

Professor Marsha Meskimmon, LUSAD (Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History and Theory)

Professor Sarah Pink, Social Sciences (Professor of Visual Anthropology)

*17. Curriculum Sub-Committee

New Programme Proposals

17.1 To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending to Learning and Teaching Committee (subject to any matters being resolved to the satisfaction of the ADT) prior to their meeting on 6 November 2008 the following new programme proposals:

· MA Studio Ceramics: Methodologies and Practice with effect from October

2009.

· MA Cultural Analysis/MSc Cultural Sociology with effect from October 2009.

· MSc Management and Leadership (Association for Consultancy & Engineering) with effect from January 2009.

17.2 To note the Chair’s action of Curriculum Sub-Committee recommending to Learning and Teaching Committee a new programme proposal MA/MSc Product Design in Business with effect from October 2008.

17.3 Following strategic approval, to note that the operational proposals of the BA History and Politics/History and International Relations/History and Geography/ History and English would be submitted to the January 2009 meeting of Curriculum Sub-Committee.

*18. Staff/Student Committees

To note that reports of the Staff/Student Committee meetings had been deposited with the Faculty Board Secretary as follows:

PIRES Undergraduate Staff Student Committee	7 Nov 2007, 20 Feb, 23 April 2008
Department of Geography	12 March 2008
Department of English & Drama	16 April 2008
MBA Staff Student Liaison Committee	29 April 2008
PG Diploma in Management (NGB)	5 June 2008
PG Programmes in Management & Leadership	18 Sept 2008

*19. Prizes

To note the following students from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities have been awarded prizes and to offer the Faculty’s congratulations:

Dennis Holt Travel Scholarship	· Laura Kate Winstone (LUSAD) · Kerry Rose Drumm (LUSAD)
Hannah Community Prize	· Stefan Carney (PIRES)
John Guest Phillips Memorial Travelling Scholarship	· Sally Little (Geography)
Loughborough College of Education Commemorative	· Suzanne Bowen (School of Sport & Exercise Sciences) · Rory Smith (Geography)
T S Shipman Awards	· Ryan Peter Storr (Geography)
Sir Robert Martin Faculty Prize (overall)	· Andrew Howard Ellis (Geography)
Sir Robert Martin Faculty Prize(s) (2)	· Polyanna Amy Jane Powis (Geography) · Adriana Ionascu (LUSAD)
Graduate School Research Student Prizes (SSH)	· Joanna Elizabeth Fowler (English & Drama)
Loughborough Experience Awards	· Lucy Patricia Hopkins (LUSAD) · Giles Alfred Humphries (Geography) · Elyn Lyell (Geography) · Thomas William Parsons (Geography) · Mustafa Sarkar (School of Sport & Exercise Sciences) · Nirav Pankaj Shah (Economics) · Kevin Stanley Smith (Economics) · Christopher Watt (School of Sport & Exercise Sciences)

*20 Membership (web link)

SSH08-P10

To note the membership of the Faculty Board for the session 2008-2009.

*21. Representation on Other Bodies (web link)

SSH08-P11

To note representation of the Faculty on other bodies.

22. Any Other Business

*23. Date of Next Meeting

The next Faculty Board meeting will take place prior to a Directorate meeting on Tuesday 19 May 2009.

Author – Ms S J McKinley
November 2008