Student Membership

Join online or email membership@fba.org.uk for a hard copy membership application form

Join our FBA community to support freshwater science and receive:

  A welcome pack

  Fortnightly emails listing upcoming jobs, PhDs, PostDocs, volunteering, grants, networking opportunities and more from around the world

  An early careers discount applied to first year of Individual membership once studies have finished

  Reduced rates specifically for bench space at our Windermere and Dorset labs

Free and discounted publications

  keep up to date with news and events through the free member's newsletter, FBA News, containing articles, comments and latest news (produced three times a year)

  discounted online access to the FBA journal Freshwater Reviews, containing reviews of current topics in freshwater science 

  25% discount on most FBA publications from reference texts introducing the fascinating subject of freshwater biology, through to reference keys for the accurate identification of individual species, genera and families of organisms

Scientific meetings, training courses and networking

  A discounted registration fee for FBA Scientific Meetings - the FBA organises (by itself or jointly with others) a range of national and international meetings.  Each year the Annual Scientific Meeting is a forum for members to meet and present their work to other members

  special rates for FBA organised training courses and identification workshops

Grants and Awards

  part-funding of PhD studentships through the studentship programme

Access to a world of information and knowledge

  free access (by appointment) to the extensive FBA freshwater Library

  access (by appointment) to the Fritsch Collection of Algal Illustrations