Why join the BES? www.britishecologicalsociety.org Free 12 months membership for Undergraduate/ Masters/ 1st year PhD students Why join the BES? Member only grants to fund training, travel, and research Participate in training and our career initiatives Access our world-renowned high-impact journals for free Communicate your science to decision-makers and help ensure that policy is informed by sound evidence Engage with our education and pubic engagement programmes Reduced registration to all BES meetings where you can network with a global community of ecologists Connect with ecologists in your field through our Specialist Interest Groups Receive 25% discount when publishing open access articles in BES journals www.britishecologicalsociety.org
In the last 12 months we: www.britishecologicalsociety.org Awarded over £300,000 in grants to our members Hosted a joint Annual Meeting with the Société Française d'Écologie with over 1100 delegates Published and promoted more than 800 high-quality articles in our international journals Provided training, advice and mentoring for ecologists at Undergraduate level and beyond Provided a summer school for talented under-graduates Supported PhD students in developing their own outreach projects Trained over 100 early-career researchers in how to communicate their science to policy-makers Supported early-career researchers on work shadowing placements at Defra, Welsh Government and European Parliament www.britishecologicalsociety.org
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