Chartership with the Geological Society of London - Anna Hitchmough RSK 8 November 2018

Chartership with the Geological Society of
London
Anna Hitchmough RSK

                                   8 November 2018

Context of Chartership

 Increasingly important for career progression
 Shows competence
 Stepping stone for further qualifications
 Deregulation?

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Types of Chartership
 CSci and CGeol are of equal status
 You don’t have to a geology graduate to get chartered with
  Geol Soc

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Types of Chartership

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Membe
rship/Chartership-and-
Professional/Applicants/Chartershi
p-Eligibility

NB. Alternative route for 20+ years

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CGeol Competency Criteria
           Geologically focused criteria
             show that you understand the complexities of
               geology and geological processes in time and
               space in relation to your speciality and that you
               are able to identify, collect, synthesise and
               evaluate geoscientific information to generate
               predictive models
           Professionally focused criteria

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CSci Competency Criteria
           Science focused criteria
             You must show your use of specialist
              experimental knowledge and broader
              scientific understanding, demonstrate your
              critical evaluation of scientific information
              and show how you exercise sound judgement
           Professionally focused criteria

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General Advice
 Choose area of specialism
 Get two chartered sponsors at least one
  with the target qualification
 Lots of info on Geol Soc website
  www.geolsoc.org.uk/chartership
    Need around 5 years post degree
     experience
    examples for proving competences
     wrt contaminated land in ‘step by step
     guide’
    CPD

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Contaminated Land Advice
 Home>Membership and
  Chartership>Chartership and
  Professional>Information for
  Applicants

 https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/s
  hared/documents/Fellowship/Chartershi
  p%20and%20Professional/Chartership%
  20Documents%20September%202014/C
  ontaminated%20Land%20Guidance%202
  018.pdf?la=en

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Contaminated Land Advice

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CPD
 Simplified in 2017
 plan → act → reflect cycle
 Download a log book
 90 hours of CPD for each year.
   min. 30 hours On-the-Job-learning.
   remaining 60 hours spread across at least 2 of the other 5 new
    CPD categories

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Geol Soc Chartership
Application
 Application Form (AD1)
 Professional Report (AD2)
 Overview of Criteria (AD3)
 CPD Records (AD4)
 Sponsors’ Reports (AD5)
 Supporting documents (SD1-6)
 MSc equivalence report may be
  necessary for CSci
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Geol Soc Chartership
- the Interview
 Four rounds a year
 Try to find a location near to you
 Application fee £120

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Interview Format
 15 minute (maximum) presentation.
 Questions covering all the Criteria.
 Be sure that you are au fait with all of the
   Submitted Documents, your work in those
   projects and your knowledge of the reasons
   for them.
 Be prepared to discuss examples of
   adherence to the Code of Conduct;Your
   responsibilities regarding H&S;Your
   planning of CPD; the boundaries of your
   competency.

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The Presentation
           Do not present on something that you have
            already submitted and which the Scrutineers
            have already read.
           Do not give a run through of your career/cv.
           Do find something that you are enthusiastic
            about and which you think demonstrates your
            competency.
           Do make it interesting.

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Scutineers
 These will be 2 people who have competency in the area for
  which you are claiming competency.
 Need to be sure that there is no conflict of interest with
  either.
 They are looking for evidence of your fulfilment of the
  Chartership requirements

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Next steps
 SoBRA (Society of Brownfield
    Risk Assessment)
   ROGEP (Register of Ground
    Engineering Professionals)
   SiLC (Specialist in Ground
    Contamination)
   CSCS (Construction Skills
    Certification Scheme)
   European Geologist

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