General website help

If you have not already created a user account on BSRA.org.uk you first need to register a user account (see also Register a User Account for help with this) and you need to be logged-in in order to be able to subscribe to a BSRA membership on the Become a Member or directly from your My account page. On this page you will find different membership types but you only need to subscribe to one of them, i.e. the one that applies to your or the one you are interested in.

Please contact us and select the Category Website issues if you need any further assistance or support with the website.

If you are logged in, you can search for other users by their username from the Advanced search page. Additionally, the user pages offer a way to search for other users with the same research interests.

Complete your Research Interests in Professional Information with a few relevant keywords or -phrases as shown below.

Please contact us via the Website issues contact category if you want to change your username.

You can change the following account settings and information about yourself:

If you are already logged in you can go to My account and edit your Account settings.

See How to choose a secure Password for some tips on this subject.

While all passwords are stored encrypted in our database, it is generally recommended that you use a unique password for each Internet site you register with. Some available tools that assist you in password creation or provide secure password management are:

• PasswordSitter by Fraunhofer-Institut für Sichere Informations-Technologie (Fraunhofer SIT), Darmstadt, or
• the PasswordSitter online version provided by Swiss security specialist e•siqia based on the Fraunhofer SIT's technology.
• KeePass Password Safe

Disclaimer: While we recommend the above software, we cannot guarantee that these will work on your system correctly or are free from any faults. If you are having any problems, please contact the respective development team.

Before you go to request new password make sure that you spelled your username/password correctly. While the username field is case-insensitive, the password field is case-sensitive.

Still not working? Then go to request new password and enter either your username or the e-mail address that you have provided on our site. You will be notified by the system if the username/e-mail address you provided is not in our database. If the username/e-mail address is recognised by the system, further instructions are sent to your e-mail address. This includes a one-time login link. By following the link, you are able to login into your account without the need of providing your username or password. You are then redirected to your account settings where you are able to change your password.

Before you can take advantage of all BSRA member specific sections of the website, you need to register a new user account. If you are already a BSRA member, we might already have set up an account for you, especially for those members who joined before July 2007 - in this case, go to the request new password page and enter the e-mail address you most likely submitted to us with your membership registration.