Good news on membership
2012 saw three improvements on Individual Membership. The total number of new directly registered Individual Members increased by well over 500 in 2012, showing an upward trend since a dip in 2010.
Even better news as seen on the table and figure is that 24% of the new Individual Members are female, up from under 15% in 2009. We are therefore showing significant progress on both gender balance and overall numbers.
The cherry on the cake is that a carefully targeted conference, the International Conference on Nanoscience + Technology [ICN+T2012], held from 23-27 July 2012 in Paris led to an amazing 823 additional new members with a similar gender spread. Of course, this conference-related membership increase was not included in the statistics, but we are hoping that it will pass the test of time and be included in the future.
Naturally, we can only hope that this actively trawled new membership will pass the test of time, which is why it was not included in the trend statistics.
