Membership

Membership is by invitation or application. Applications for membership should be made by letter to the Secretary at the address given below and must be accompanied by a CV and a paper as described below. 

Members may invite suitably qualified people (as described in the 'Members' section here) to attend up to two meetings as their professional guests. After this those wishing to be considered for membership will be asked to send their CV and a paper of about 1000 words on a driving or driver training subject of their choice to the Secretary.

The Executive Committee will then interview the applicants and, if it supports the application, will inform the members. The candidates may then attend further meetings as guests of the Executive.

If there are no objections from the members the applicants are accepted for membership. When they have paid the appropriate subscription, they are inducted into membership. It is from the date of the induction that membership and privileges begin.

Subscriptions

The Paper

This is just an essay, which will form the basis of the discussion when we interview you, it should contain your own ideas, mainly in your own words.

What subject should it be about?

It should be concerned with driver instruction/training or road safety but otherwise the choice is yours. Most people choose an aspect in which they are interested.

How long does it need to be?

Between1,000 and 1,500 words.

Can I use the internet?

You can use any method of research that you like but when you are referring to a source, whether it be the internet, a book or an article, you should state what the source is, and if you use the actual words of the source, put them in quotation marks.

How should I structure the paper?

Again, this is down to you but the normal way would be an introduction in which you establish what your subject is, the main body of the text in which you set out the facts and arguments you are discussing and finally, the conclusion in which you say what you think, based on the evidence in your main text.

Can I use diagrams, charts or graphics?

By all means, if they clarify what you are discussing but don’t think you have to.

What should I avoid?

Please do not simply extract whole chunks of text from the internet or other source and simply paste them together to make up your own Paper. We are interested in what you think. A ‘cut and paste’ job tells us nothing about you, other than you have no original ideas of your own.

If you have any questions, please contact the Secretary or any member of the Executive.