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Membership of the SRA

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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