Group membership

Do you run a course or department with undergraduates, Masters or PhD/MPhil postgraduates?

Are you keen to boost your students' academic performance and career prospects?

With the BNA's Group Membership scheme, give your student cohort a headstart today.

What is BNA Group Membership?

• This scheme allows neuroscience or neuroscience-related course leaders, department heads, and other decision-makers to purchase a year of BNA membership for entire student cohorts at once. As well as giving you a 10% discount on each student's membership fees, this scheme opens the door for significant benefits for both your course/department and your students:
• Your students will receive a significant boost to their wider reading, neuroscientific community engagement, and career prospects from the full range of BNA membership benefits, including:
  • free or heavily discounted CPD both in-person (e.g. national and international meetings such as the 2025 Festival of Neuroscience and the FENS Forum 2026) and digitally (through webinars, and e-learning platforms such as eBrain)
  • free or heavily discounted writing and publishing opportunities through our journal Brain and Neuroscience Advances (which especially encourages submissions from students e.g. journal club articles, meeting reports and our unique "Brain Insights" format)
  • career support through bespoke student careers events, burseries, prizes, and networking opportunities
• Your course/department will benefit from a strengthened student cohort, with facilitated access to higher attainment and future career success through
  • access to supplementary teaching via BNA events and training (course leaders often include these as part of their core syllabus)
  • a real sense of community among UK neuroscientists, supporting your students to continue in their STEM careers long after their course ends
  • access to the largest neuroscience networking opportunities in the UK, via BNA events
• Over a third of BNA members are students, and we have therefore ensured that our student benefits are tailored to offer them the support they need to excel in assessments, access a wide range of careers, and meaningfully engage in their wider neuroscience community.
• Membership types can be a mix of undergraduate and postgraduate (click here to view membership categories)

How does it work?

At the beginning of the academic year, get in touch with the BNA Membership & Communities Manager (dani.wijesinghe@bna.org.uk) to express your interest. We will ask you for a table of basic data on your students, and then we will handle the rest: setting up your students' BNA accounts, welcoming them to the BNA community, and instructing them on how to begin enjoying their membership benefits straight away.

How do I pay?

A consolidated invoice for all memberships (less 10% discount) will be sent to the responsible person within your organisation. With just one payment by BACS, debit or credit card, you can pay for your whole group's membership.

Prices for each membership type:
Undergraduate: £12 per member per year          ........          Reduced to £10.80 per member per year
Postgraduate: £24 per member per year             ........          Reduced to £21.60 per member per year
ECR Membership: £58 per member per year      ........          Reduced to £52.20 per member per year

Which institutions currently benefit from Group Membership?

• University of Bristol
• University of Cambridge
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Exeter
• University of Glasgow
• Imperial College London
• King’s College London
• University of Leeds
• University of Manchester
• University of Oxford
• Queen Mary, University of London
• University of Strathclyde
• University of Central Lancashire
• University of Warwick
• University of Westminster, London

Member testimonials

“Each year we group register our Translational Neuroscience PhD students and Integrated Neuroscience Masters students for BNA student membership. It couldn't be easier: we send the BNA some basic data for the year's student cohort and the BNA office do the rest, including sending us a single invoice – we even get a small discount! Our students then all receive the benefits of BNA membership from the very start of their degree, including reduced registration fees for the FENS Forum and BNA Festival of Neuroscience meetings (which they are expected to attend). It is so much easier to take this approach than having to constantly remind 50 students to register separately.”
– Jane Haley, University of Edinburgh

“I was incredibly fortunate. My university had paid for the entire cohort’s BNA membership – they do a lot to support students. If they hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to apply for the role I’m in and actually be here today, so all thanks goes to them.”
– Emma Soopramanien, Queen Mary University London

Don't see your institution here? Email the BNA today (dani.wijesinghe@bna.org.uk) to set up your group registration.