We are supporting the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) to implement a programme of new activities to become a strong and prominent professional society for 21st century UK neuroscience.
A new strategic plan
Over the past decade, the BNA has undergone many changes. It extensively overhauled its governance and operations model to become more streamlined and effective in order to develop new initiatives, such as its flagship biennial four-day Festival of Neuroscience as well as its own broad scope, multidisciplinary journal called Brain and Neuroscience Advances.
In 2018, we provided funding to BNA to launch a new and exciting strategic plan that aimed to build and support a cohesive country-wide neuroscience community for sharing findings and ideas, promoting knowledge exchange, brokering relationships across specialities, and transforming how research is carried out within the sector.
Connecting British Neuroscientists
A dynamic and sustainable BNA brings the benefits of a well-connected UK neuroscience community linking basic scientists, clinicians and industry as well as a strong and supported pool of upcoming early-career researchers. To this end, we renewed support for a further three years to allow BNA to strengthen all successes over the past period, cement new activities and partnerships as well as develop the membership further with even wider stakeholder involvement.
Successes to date
Credibility in Neuroscience
A major campaign and suite of activities on neuroscience research encompassing reproducibility, replicability and reliability.
Strong annual themes
Focusing on timely topics with associated events and outputs such as scientific workshops and position papers.
Building Bridges Between
Building Bridges Between: Industry & Academia is a new initiative that fosters connections and collaboration between neuroscientists in industry and academia.
BNA Scholars Programme
A new effort to increase the diversity of BNA membership and of the neuroscience sector more widely.
Increase in membership
Increases of more than 25% attesting to the value and interest in the new BNA activities by neuroscientists of all career stages in the UK.