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Welcome to the first ISB Now newsletter for 2024! I hope you all had a Happy New Year and enjoyed some form of end-of-year break! Being in the Southern Hemisphere I’ve been on Summer break in January, and just getting back into our first week of teaching in mid-February.

Over the past 3 months the ISB Council has been conducting some planning and collaborative activities which I am happy to share with you. We have been planning for our 2024 Council meeting, which will be held in Edmonton, Canada, just before the Canadian Society for Biomechanics Conference. One of the main activities at these even-year Council meetings is to review bids for the ISB Congress 3 years later. We are still seeking bids for the ISB 2027 Congress, so if you have an interest in hosting an ISB Congress, please reach out to us as soon as possible because the applications will be due in the coming months (before the next Newsletter).

In preparation for discussion at the next Council meeting, we are also looking at ways to update the ISB website and sponsorship offerings, and I am hoping to start work on an ISB Strategy. I have been learning from some of our ISB affiliate societies the processes they used to develop their strategic plans. This will include an opportunity for consultation and input from ISB members, which may be in the form of a survey sent to members, or it may be in person at an AGM, depending on how quickly we are able to progress this. This will be your chance to have a say for the direction of the society – which activities are most important to you etc. I will share more information with you all about our progress with these activities throughout the year.

I have also had a couple of meetings recently with representatives from our new affiliate society, International Women in Biomechanics (IWB). We are discussing ways of collaborating to help support and advance Women in the field of Biomechanics. The IWB Wiki bomb event is in full swing, and I have been learning about the IWB Nominate Women initiative, which aims to increase nominations for women for awards, speaking events, board positions etc. I have asked for IWB to contribute a short description to the next newsletter so that ISB members can learn more about this initiative, so watch out for this in the next newsletter!

Finally, I’d like to draw your attention to the Biomechanics Through Time article in this current ISB Now edition, where our Archives Officer, John Challis, takes us back in time to an early ISB Newsletter article discussing links between Gulliver’s Travels and Biomechanics. These articles are entertaining and enlightening, and I hope you all enjoy this one and others to come!

 

Elizabeth Clarke

ISB President 

 

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