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Complete your details below and send your subscription fee to become a member of BSG
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What are the benefits of joining?

Membership of the BSG brings you into a community of academics and practitioners interested in a wide range of issues related to ageing. In particular, membership:
  • Brings you into a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary group of people who are interested in ageing, ageing studies and older people. Our members include academics, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, students, service users and older people
  • Facilitates access to dynamic and up-to date debates about ageing and ageing studies - our members are involved in cutting edge research, policy and practice and are very willing to share their perspectives with you
  • Entitles you to significantly reduced rates at the Annual Conferences of the British Society of Gerontology
  • Our online newsletter Generations Review enables members to communicate with one another and is a dynamic forum in which to discuss current issues about research, policy and practice
  • We provide guidance and support for people wishing to develop careers in ageing studies. Our vibrant group of Emerging Researchers in Ageing, which includes students, postdoctoral researchers and people new to careers in ageing, meet regularly to discuss research, policy and practice and support one another in their careers
  • Access to our mailing list (BSGmail) to enable you to keep up-to-date about conferences, seminars, teaching courses, and research about ageing and ageing studies
  • If you are a student, postdoctoral or unwaged member, you are entitled to apply for a conference bursary, for example, to cover costs to attend our annual conference
  • Entitles you to substantially reduced subscription rates to the following peer reviewed journals: Ageing and Society and Journal of Population Ageing (NEW FOR 2009)
  • Provides you with access to all areas of the BSG website, including the Membership Directory and Members Only pages
  • Through the Membership Directory, allows you to contact directly someone with similar research interests locally, nationally and/or internationally
Membership fees

The rates for the current year are:

Category Rate

Waged member

£50.00

Full time student, retired or unwaged

 £20.00

Special Membership Subscription to Ageing & Society

 £33.00
For the current volume please add this amount to your payment to the British Society of Gerontology , e.g. £50 + £33 = £83
Special Membership Subscription to Journal of Population Ageing

£40.00
For the current volume please add this amount to your payment to the British Society of Gerontology, e.g. £50 + £40 = £90


How can I join?

Are you a new member?

You can become a member of BSG by completing the form below. This will register you on the website and entitle you to immediate temporary membership for 60 days. If you wish, you can also enter your details for the Membership Directory. Once you submit any of this information using the grey buttons you will be taken to the next step, How to send your membership fees. Your membership will be made permanent once payment has been processed.

If you would like to join, please complete the form below:

Have you been a member before and wish to renew your membership?

Please do not fill in the form. We should have your details already. Follow this link for details of the renewal process

 

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Members' Directory
- if you wish to appear on the members' directory, please check this box and answer the questionnaire below - please take some time in letting us know more about yourself! - if you want to complete the questionnaire later, simply click on the registration button below to register. This information is used for BSG communication only.
 

Questionnaire for Members' Directory

Please indicate your core or principal interests and specialisms by ticking the boxes in each of the sections below. You may select as many or as few items as you believe appropriate:
 

Which of the following form the basis of your interest in gerontology

Research Direct service provision (treatment/care/advice)
Teaching Advocacy/Lobbying on behalf of older people
Policy-making/Management Other - please specify -
Student  

In which discipline(s) are you working?

Demography Medicine
Economics Nursing and therapies
Epidemiology Psychology
Geography Social anthropology
Gerontology Social policy
History Social work
Literature/creative arts Sociology
Management/Business Other - please specify -

What is your main discipline?


Please tick those research methodologies which you practise or which are a special interest:

Action/demonstration research Qualitative/ethnographic methods
Evaluation and assessment instruments Quantitative methods (secondary data)
Biographical approaches/oral history Quantitative methods (modelling)
Feminist perspectives Survey research
Other - please specify -  
Other - please specify -  

Core research and professional interests (no restriction, but a maximum of five is recommended)

Abuse of older people Mental health services
Carers - caring - informal Mid-life - pre-retirement
Cognition Mortality - survival
Community care Nursing
Creativity Nutrition and diet
Culture - attitudes - images Palliative/terminal care
Death and bereavement Policy issues
Dementias Political action - organisations
Depression - morale Private sector
Education for older people Race - ethnicity
Employment Rehabilitation
Experience - feelings - attitudes Religion - spirituality
Gender Retirement
Health - functioning Sexuality
Health promotion Social networks - family - friends
Health services Social services
Housing - architecture Social theory
Income - pensions Social work
Institutional care Teaching gerontology
Leisure - recreation Voluntary sector
Mental illness Other - please specify -

If your research interests include nations or continents beyond Britain, please name:

Africa Middle East
Asia North America
Australasia Other European countries
Caribbean Pacific Region
EU countries South America
East Asia South-East Asia
Indian Sub-continent Worldwide
 

 


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