Membership of BIRAs; How to Join!
- Benefits of Membership
- How to Become a Member of BIRAs
- MSc /PhD Student
- Changes for Current Members
- Download Forms
- Data Protection
Benefits of Joining
50% reduction in registration
for any BIRAs Meeting
Regular updates and information
on forthcoming meetings (normally by e-mail or post)
Access to restricted sections of this site (COMING SOON!)
Regular updates and information on forthcoming meetings (normally by e-mail or post)
Access to restricted sections of this site (COMING SOON!)
Reduced subscription to Inflammation Research
Reduced subscription to Mediators of Inflammation
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How to become a member of BIRAs
We hope that you will find membership of BIRAs to be both useful and enjoyable, and we hope that you will take an active part in our scientific activities.You may apply to become a member of BIRAs by either downloading and submitting the forms below or by writing directly to the Membership Secretary and requesting forms to be sent to you. Please read the Data Protection Act before completion of the forms.
Costs of Membership are currently (from January 1st, 2001):
| Normal Membership | £20.00 | per. annum. | |
| MSc/ PhD students | £5.00 | per. annum. |
The first payment will be withdrawn after at least 28 days from receipt of your form and then on January the first, or nearest working day, every year there after.
If you join after September the 1st, the membership for the rest of that year will be free and the first withdrawal from your account will be January the first (or close to) on the following year.
As part of a policy to encourage young scientists to enter the field, bona fide MSc and PhD students can join BIRAs at a reduced rate (£5.00 per year) for the term of their studentship ( up to a maximum of 1 year fro MSc and 4 years for PhD) .
They need to complete and enclose a membership form and a direct debit form and to also enclose a letter from their supervisor confirming: their student status; the start and end dates of the studentship, and also the area of inflammation in which the student works.
Due to changes, and good operational reasons, we are currently asking all current members to pay by Direct Debit in future (from 2002).
This is also a good chance to update our records of your membership and issue all members with a membership number. Also, as we have explained, we will be mainly communicating by e-mail in future (although we will still send out mail or fax to those who do not have e-mail) and so we will need this information from you. We are also thus asking all members to complete a new membership form. Your membership for this year will not be affected.
If we have not already contacted you about these changes, and you have not already completed, and sent in, the forms, can you please:
- Download, complete, and send in a new membership form and Direct Debit form (below) .
- Write to your bank and cancel any standing order, or other payment, you currently make to BIRAs.
All forms (Membership and Direct Debit) should be returned to the address given on the form. The new payment will start in January 2002 and continue until you instruct us otherwise.
Your current payment by Standing Order will only carry on until the end
of 2001, no matter when the payment occurs. This is because the account
receiving these payments will be closed at the end of 2001 and thus no
more payments will be possible. If you wish to remain a member of BIRAs
after this date you will have to complete a new form and make a new payment
in 2002. Although this may sound like some members may lose out, those
who pay in the last quarter will get membership until the end of the following
year and thus will have paid for the current year by standing order and
next year through the direct debit.
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If you would like to become a member of BIRAs please download a copy of our membership application form (click on highlighted text left to download), complete this and and send the completed form (including Direct Debit form) to the address given on the form.Data Protection Act, 1984
Pursuant to the Data Protection Act, 1984, the British Inflammation Research Association is obliged to inform its members and all prospective members that it holds certain personal data for its membership on a computer file. This information consists only of (a) name and address; (b) telephone number; (c) fax number. The primary purpose of this file is to allow the automated generation of mailing labels for the distribution of the Newsletter and other mailings of the Association. In addition, the membership list contained in the Annual Handbook of the Association is reproduced from this computer database, as a means of facilitating communication between BIRAs members.On occasion, mailing labels are provided to organisations, such as the publishers of reputable scientific journals or other scientific societies whose activities are considered to be of professional interest or value to the Association's members, e.g. if they are organising Symposia of interest to the membership.
The Association claims exemption from registration under the Data Protection Act by subjecting its use of these personal data to the strict limitations given above. However, if any member of BIRAs objects to the retention of their data on a computer file, or their use in these ways, they should sign the appropriate place on the membership form. If they change their mind later, then they should inform the Membership Secretary in writing. Their data will then immediately be removed from the database and all subsequent Association-derived mailings will be handled manually.
Current Membership Secretary is:
Dr Paul Kirkham,Novartis,
Wimblehurst Road,
Horsham,
West Sussex. RH12 5AB
Tel: 01403 323844
Fax:
Email: paul.kirkham@pharma.novartis.com