Notes for Guidance

 

In order to stand for election, you must:

  • Be a member of the British Infection Association
  • Have identified two BIA Members to support your nomination (one of whom must have been a member of BIA for two years).

The following will be included on the electronic voting platform as supplied:

  • Title
  • Name
  • Organisation
  • Photo (optional)
  • Statement as supplied. Please note that in the interest of fairness, BIA makes every effort to ensure candidates' election statements are reproduced exactly as they have been submitted. Therefore, please check your election statement carefully for any grammatical or spelling errors before submitting it.

• BIA reserves the right to edit or not to publish your election statement if it is factually inaccurate or contains libellous material.

• Your election statement must not exceed the word limit of 250 words. If your election statement exceeds the word limit, it will be cut at the word limit and followed by the words 'statement cut at word limit'.

• Provison of a photograph is not mandatory. In the absence of a provided photograph the words 'photograph not received' will be published in the space where your photograph would have appeared.

• Your title (other than Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms) will accompany your election statement.

• Candidates will be listed in alphabetical order via surname

 

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Contact Details

You are also invited to supply a photograph to accompany your statement. Please uploade via the link below.  Please refer to the ‘Elections Statement Preparation Instructions’ on page 3 for further information about emailing your photo. 

If you have any difficulties uploading your photo, please contact admin@britishinfection.org

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Nominated by

Each member who agrees to become a candidate for election to Council shall be proposed and seconded by Association members, one of whom must be of at least 2 years' standing.  We will contact each of the nominees for confirmation.

 

For further information on what being a council member involves, please see the BIA Constitution.

Election Statement

You are invited to provide an election statement describing why you think you should be elected.

MAXIMUM 250 WORDS

DETAILED RULES RELATING TO WORD COUNTS AND STYLE

(a)   Every word no matter how small e.g. "I", "or", “and”, "the" etc. will be counted as one word.

(b)  Numbers in a block will be treated as one word e.g. "2000", "1/128", "2001/2" and "2001/2002."

(c)   Any acronyms or groups of initials will be treated as one word. For example, 'ERS' would count as one word. If, however, full titles for acronyms or groups of words are used, they will count as separate words. For example, Electoral Reform Services Ltd will count as four words.

(d)  Compound words or hyphenated words, such as co-operation, will be treated as one word.

(e)  Candidates' election statements will be distributed using a common typeface and type size font.

(f)    Selected words or sentences can be emboldened, capitalized, underlined, or italicized. Entire election statements submitted in any of these formats will, however, be reproduced in the common typeface and type size font detailed in Paragraph above.

(g)  The use of bullet points and numbering to make separate points is allowed and these will not be counted as words.

Words or phrases can be centered or indented. Boxes around particular words or phrases will not, however, be reproduced.

Thank You

You will receive an email confirming receipt of your nomination, if you do not receive this within 24 hours please contact admin@britishinfection.org

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