Committees, subcommittees and groups
Specialist working bodies providing expert guidance on specific areas of veterinary practice and regulation. See a full list of committees and a brief description of their roles on our dedicated committees page.
Advancement of the Professions Committee
The role of the Advancement of the Professions Committee is to co-ordinate and develop those streams of activity that help to advance the veterinary and veterinary nursing professions, and which are underpinned by our Royal Charter.
Members
- Mrs Belinda Andrews-Jones RVN - VN Council Chair, Lead for Innovation
- Ms Amanda Boag FRVCS - Chair of Board of Trustees, RCVS Knowledge (Observer)
- Dr Tshidi Gardiner MRCVS - Lead for EDI
- Dr Niall Connell FRCVS - Chair of RCVS Fellowship Board
- Ms Lizzie Lockett - RCVS CEO & Vet Futures Project Board
- Mrs Angharad Belcher - RCVS Director of the Advancement of the Professions
- Dr Susan Paterson FRCVS - Lead for Leadership
- Mr Simon Williams - VN Futures Project Board
- Mr John Mark Castle - RCVS Lay Council member
- Dr Zara Kennedy - Chair of the Advancement of the Professions Committee, Chair of Mind Matters Initiative
- Prof. Matthew D Jones - Lead for Environment & Sustainability
- Prof. Chris Loughrey - Lead for Global Development
Contact
Charlie Coaker: [email protected]
Meetings
Terms of reference
The Advancement of the Professions Committee will oversee work that is non-statutory in nature and contributes broadly to the advancement of the veterinary and/or veterinary nursing professions.
Such activity includes, but is not limited to, leadership, innovation, mental health (Mind Matters), the Fellowship, international strategy, Vet Futures, VN Futures, diversity and inclusion, sustainability and other workstreams to be defined by Council.
This will exclude work that is non-statutory but sufficiently covered by existing standing committees, such as postgraduate education.
The Committee shall comprise the chairs of relevant working parties or taskforces, or appropriate Council member champions, together with up to four other members of Council (chair, lay member, veterinary surgeon, veterinary nurse), together with relevant members of the Senior Team. Other Committee members may be co-opted if necessary. RCVS Knowledge, an independent charity, will contribute by means of its Chair of Trustees, who will be an invited observer. Although they each have responsibility for individual projects or areas of work, Committee members will review and input across all areas, with collective responsibility.
The Committee shall:
- Take regular reports from the leads on these areas of work and consider the ongoing effectiveness of the work against agreed strategy, timing and resourcing, making recommendations for changes, where appropriate. Consider any additional budgetary impact of these workstreams, which would then be escalated via the Financial Controls process;
- Ensure that potential synergies between the various projects and initiatives reporting into the Committee are identified and exploited, and that opportunities for working collaboratively to maximise the impact of workstreams is explore