Society of Radiographers

SOR / COR / SCoR

Full name	Society and College of Radiographers
Motto	Ex umbris eruditio
Motto in English	From a shadow cometh light/knowledge
Founded	1920
Members	22,532 (excluding 2,925 students)
Affiliation	EFRS,ISRRT,NICETUC,PARN, STUC,WRETF
Key people	President - Mrs Shelia Hassan DCR(T) President Elect - Mr Steve Herring BSc (Hons) (R) PgD Vice President - Mr Gareth Thomas BSc (Hons) PgDip FHEA Chief Executive Officer - Mr R Evans HDCR Head of Professional Policy Professor - Mrs C Beardmore FCR MBA (Open) DMS BSc (Hons) DCR(R) & (T) Head of Industrial Strategy - Mr W Town MA DCR(T) DLS Head of Finance and Operations - Mr D Goulds MBA FCMA FCIS
Office location	London, England
Country	United Kingdom
Website	www.sor.org

The Society of Radiographers (SoR) is a professional body and trade union that represents more than 90% of the diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers in the United Kingdom. The College of Radiographers (CoR) is a charitable subsidiary of the Society, they are collectively known as the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR). It was founded in 1920 in an effort to provide standardised training and registration for Radiographers within the British Isles. Until 1996, the SoR was also the professional body and trades union for radiographers in Ireland whereupon the Irish Institute of Radiography and Radiation Therapy was established.

The Society of Radiographers was established in 1920 by Radiologists Dr Albert Forder and Dr Robert Knox. In conjunction with Dr Walmsley and Mr Blacked they formed a sub-committee which drafted rules regarding the admission of new members. Membership to the society was open to Radiographers who had been in continuous, active employment in clinical practice for at least ten years in an electro-therapeutic department or radiology department of an approved hospital by the council. In 1921, a syllabus was developed and examinations were introduced to facilitate competency checks before membership was granted to new members. Membership began to grow with 67 members in 1921 and 164 in 1923.

The society formed a South African branch in 1930 and established a pattern of branch formation with a local committee management which was propagated in the UK during the 1930s. As a result, the Scottish Radiographic Society which was formed in 1927 became a branch of the Society in 1936, the South West Branch in 1937, the North West in 1942, the Midland and the North East in 1943. The first Annual Conference of the Society of Radiographers was in 1947 held at Bath, England.

In June 2015, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) granted accreditation to the processes used by the SCoR in order to generate current clinical guidance for Radiography practice, meaning that the SCoR is NICE accredited.

The objectives for which The Society of Radiographers is established are as follows:

The College objectives are directed towards education, research and other activities in support of the science and practice of radiography.

The Society and College is led by a Council which is made-up of representatives from a number of English regions (Eastern region, London region, Midlands region, North West region, Northern region, South East region, South West region, Yorkshire & North Trent region) and from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The Council determines the Society's policy and strategic direction in consultation with members and others that have a vested interest. It meets once a month, with the exception of August and December.

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