OUR WAY FORWARD
Consultation on survey of names
In September 2009 Faculty and Institute members, who were eligible to vote and for whom the Profession held an email address, were invited to take part in an online survey about the factors that influenced their voting behaviour in the July 2009 merger vote. Of 9,235 members who were sent an invitation, 2,878 responded.
As a result of responses to the survey, a second survey which closed on 18 December, was prepared on behalf of Joint Councils to seek the views of all Faculty and Institute members (including students) as to potentially suitable names if Councils were to put forward a revised proposal for a merged body.
Out of the combined total membership of 20,408 (comprising 2,856 Faculty members and 17,552 Institute members), a total of 4,298 responses were received, comprising 726 from the Faculty, 3,546 from the Institute, and 26 from both.
The responses shown have been split by members who are eligible to vote and all members (inclusive of students) as we found this was the most useful way to consider the results.
Joint Councils have found the results from this survey inconclusive with respect to finding a name that would satisfy members of both bodies. In the light of this, Joint Councils have asked an independent survey firm to conduct a series of telephone interviews with a random sample of eligible members to obtain more qualitative data to add to the findings of the Survey of names. The telephone interviews will take place in mid January.
Please note
"All eligible members" comprises Faculty Associates, Faculty Fellows, Faculty Honorary Fellows, Institute Associates, and Institute Fellows.
As questions in the survey of names were not compulsory, not all respondents recorded answers to all seven questions.
