Professor Emma Raven has been elected onto the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Council. As a council member, Professor Raven becomes a Trustee of the charity and is responsible for the affairs of the RSC.

The RSC is the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. Supported by a worldwide network of 47,500 members and an international publishing business, their activities span education, conferences, science policy and the promotion of chemistry to the public.
 
The RSC council operates at the strategic level, keeping abreast of national and global issues affecting the RSC's operating environment including political and economic trends, developments in science, professional practice and the business environment. It provides direction by setting and keeping under review a strategic plan and allocating resources. In addition it establishes governance structures and processes, delegates authority and monitors conformance.

Emma said “ I have been a member of the RSC since I was an undergraduate and have been involved in a variety of RSC’s activities during the last ten years, especially in respect of those at the chemistry-biology interface, as this overlaps with my research expertise and interests. I have found my involvement with the RSC to be very rewarding as I share the society’s commitment to advance the chemical sciences and its loyalty to its constituent scientific community. As PhD student I was fortunate to benefit from the culture of multidisciplinary research, i.e. research that is not defined by traditional scientific boundaries. Whilst progress has been made in removing administrative barriers to multidisciplinary research during the past 20 years, crossing traditional subject divides is still more difficult than it ought to be. This is one area in which RSC has made progress and where I feel I would be able to make a contribution. I agreed to be nominated when I considered the commitment of recent members RSC Council and wish to make a similar commitment and contribution.”