| Membership of the SRA is open to anyone interested,
or involved in social research. It is primarily an association of
individual members, although we offer the opportunity for research
organisations outside the UK and Ireland to affiliate as corporate
members, and there is a group membership discount available to UK
companies with five or more members.
The Association continues to grow and has over 1,100 members including
social researchers in central and local government, higher education,
large commercial social and market research companies, the voluntary
sector and independent institutions as well as freelance consultants.
The SRA has branches within Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Membership
For details of member charges and discounts for
courses and events 2009-10 click
here (pdf
21k)
Currently membership costs £80.00 per year for full-time
workers, £50.00 for part-time workers and retired, and £25.00
for unwaged and full time student members.
Membership of the SRA entitles you to:
- Free Newsletter
four times a year. For previous editions of our members newsletter
see: SRA Newsletter
- Discounts on
SRA Training Days, Seminars, Social Events and Conferences
- Reduced subscription rate for the International
Journal of Social Research Methodology - see www.informaworld.com/tsrm.
A form to claim for your discount is available at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/offer/tsrm-so.asp
- 20% discount and free postage and packaging
on Sage books for SRA members - please quote your membership
number and The SRA at www.sagepub.co.uk
- 20% discount on selected titles from The Oxford
University Press - see www.oup.co.uk/sale/sraoffer08
- 20% discount on all Wiley-Blackwell books please go to www.wiley.com and quote promotional code V9374
- 50% discount on a range of journals from Elsevier - see here for details (xls 23k)
Group Membership
The SRA is now offering the benefits of group
membership to organisations with five or more members. This provides
a 10% discount on overall membership fees, with a simplified ‘once
a year for all’ payments system and additional discounts
for attendance at training and other events. Please contact Dorothy
Williams for further information. Group membership will entitle
organisations to the following discounts
- 10% discount on all SRA courses booked
- 10% discount on Annual Conference bookings
- 10% discount on all website advertisements
placed
International affiliation and membership
The SRA welcomes individual members from
countries other than the UK and Ireland and has recently created
a ‘corporate affiliate scheme’ at the cost of £100
per year for social research organisations outside the UK and
Ireland to receive information on SRA activities and other benefits.
Please follow this link for more information.
Corporate
Information (pdf 211k) and Corporate
Membership form (doc 47k) Professional Indemnity Insurance
The SRA has arranged with WPS insurance
brokers a new benefit exclusive to members of the SRA. This will
provide public
liability
cover for £5m and professional indemnity insurance for £250K
for £300 pa ( +IPT). Other amounts are available. This
benefit will be particularly useful for not only free lance and
independent researchers, but also for those working in research
companies bidding for public sector tenders. Higher levels of
cover are also available. One of the main attractions of this
cover for anyone who has previously applied for PI insurance,
is the brevity of the information required on the form. ( Click
here for the application form). Please note that this offer is
available only to individuals and to SRA members. If you have
any further queries about the nature of the policy or the cover
provided please contact admin@the-sra.org.uk .
How to Join
If you wish to join the SRA download, print
out and complete our membership
form (.doc 73k) returning
it with payment
to the SRA.
Guidance when completing
the SRA Membership Form 2010
We hope you will find this form to be straightforward to complete.
There are one or two free text questions and to simplify our task
of coding, please note;
In boxed questions with contact information
we are seeking your job title. This question has previously led
to 243 different ones
among current SRA members. Please use a generic title where appropriate
e.g. ‘research manager’ if that is what your function
entails.
Question 2 refers to the sector your employer is within, even
you work on projects within a different sector.
Question 4 areas of research expertise and interest.
We previously provided a long list to choose
from. Instead we suggest you use whatever categorisation best
describes your areas.
It could be for instance ‘criminal justice’ or a specialism
within this area such as ‘penal policy’. This information
will help us to target potential events to groups of members.
We are always interested to get feed back on what works for members.
If you have any comments on how this form can be improved please
let us know.
Membership Renewal
We have a rolling
renewal system. This means that your SRA membership
is valid for 12 months from when you first join
or renewed your membership.
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