November–December 2011
Meetings
New IPEd Accreditation Board
Revision of ASEP
Communication matters
The IPEd Prize
IPEd web minder
Training and professional development
Barbara Ramsden Award 2011
Reciprocal membership of UK society
Meetings
The IPEd Council met twice during the period covered by these notes, on 13 November and 11 December. Both meetings were by teleconference.
New IPEd Accreditation Board Chair
At its November meeting, council welcomed WA editor Carla Morris AE, a member of both that state’s society and Victoria’s, as the new AB Chair. The board is moving into high gear in its planning for the next exam, scheduled for the second half of 2012. A call for exam assessors was put out to Accredited and Distinguished Editors during December. The board is also working on development of an onscreen version of the exam, to test whether such an exam is viable, with, if it is, 2013 the target for its delivery and implementation.
Revision of ASEP
Workshops giving members the opportunity to contribute to the revision of the CASE/IPEd Australian Standards for Editing Practice will be held during February 2012 in the NSW, SA, Tasmania and WA societies. Queensland held its standards-revision workshop in early December, and the Canberra society discussed the revision at its regular October meeting. Planning and implementation of the revision process are being managed on behalf of the council by Kerry Davies AE. Kerry, who is president of the Queensland society, will facilitate the forthcoming workshops, as she did the earlier workshop of her own society.
Communication matters
At its December meeting, council recorded, with regret, the resignation, due to work pressures,
of Rowena Austin AE as Communication Committee (CommComm) Convenor. Rowena has long been a guiding light in IPEd’s communication plans and activities, and council will miss her counsel and experience on matters of promotion and advocacy.
Also at the December meeting, council endorsed a new policy covering communication and information dissemination within the institute. The policy promotes the free flow of information between all stakeholders in IPEd and full transparency in IPEd’s work on behalf of its Members and the wider profession. The policy is on the website.
The IPEd Prize
To support and foster research in editing and publishing, as part of its broader mission to enhance the profession of editing, IPEd has established an annual ‘IPEd Prize’ for an essay on editing or publishing. Entry will be open students enrolled in postgraduate tertiary education courses in editing and publishing. The author of the winning essay will receive $250, and their essay will be published on the IPEd website, where more details about the award can be found.
Web Minder
Following a call for volunteers from the societies, the IPEd Council is pleased to announce that Paul Bugeja, a member of the Victorian society, has accepted the position. Paul’s day-to-day work is currently as a digital editor with a sports betting agency, managing a pool of writers across a multitude of sports. He has tertiary qualifications in screenwriting, professional writing and editing, copywriting, dramatic art and arts/commerce, and noted in his offer to IPEd that he ‘would love the opportunity to help out an organisation I clearly support’. Welcome aboard Paul.
Training and professional development
Victoria’s Rosemary Noble AE and Susan Wales AE have updated the compilation of training activities undertaken by all the societies over the past 3 years. It’s an impressive list and contains many items that, all circumstances permitting, IPEd, through its ‘transportable training’ scheme, would be pleased to support re-running in societies in addition those in which they were first held. On the IPEd website you can find out what’s on offer.
Barbara Ramsden Award 2011
During December–January, IPEd-appointed judges Rosemary Luke AE and Rosemary Noble AE will be assessing publishers’ entries for this year’s Barbara Ramsden Award for excellence in editing. The award, sponsored by IPEd, is made in recognition of the synergy between author and editor that is essential to produce a high-quality publication. More details will be put on the website as they come to hand.
Reciprocal membership of UK society
It can be reported as breaking news that negotiations are in progress to recognise IPEd Accredited Editor status as a substantive part of the requirements for advanced status membership of the UK Society of Editors and Proofreaders (www.sfep.org.uk). More details next issue.
ALL THE BEST TO ALL FOR 2012.
Ed Highley
Secretary
Previous IPEd notes
January–May 2011
March–April 2011
May–June 2011
July–August 2011
Special IPEd Notes for national editors' conference
September 2011 (pdf)
September–October 2011