Introducing our 2024 UG event series and membership offer
We’re excited to share details of our 2024 undergraduate event series, which is free and open to all, as well as to announce a special offer of 50% off membership for undergraduates from now until 30 June 2024.
Students are our fastest growing section of members, in part thanks to our excellent Postgraduate Network (PGN) who run monthly events, mentoring sessions and play a big part in our annual conference. For our undergraduate members, we have curated what we hope will be an engaging programme of virtual events, incorporating both hot topics in IR and skills sessions.
The 2024 programme follows successful undergraduate events in previous years focusing on careers, US foreign policy, China and Brexit.
Confirmed events for 2024 so far include:
- Security in surprising places, 19 February, 1.30-2.30pm. Speaker - Professor Lee Jarvis, Loughborough
- Essay writing: top tips 12 March, 12-1.30pm. Speakers - Professor Simon Lightfoot (Leeds), Dr Christopher Featherstone (York), Priscilla Tomaz (Oxford)
- The War in Ukraine: Why Did it Start? How Will it End? 20 March, 2-3.30pm. Speaker - Professor Mark Webber, Birmingham
- Revision and exam strategies 3 May, 12-1.30pm. Speaker - Dr Matthew Eagleton-Pierce (SOAS)
- Where is the UK-EU security relationship heading? 8 May, 2-3.30pm. Speakers - Professor Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria), Professor Richard Whitman (Kent)
- Let's get critical 22 May, 2-3.30pm. Speakers - Dr Christopher Featherstone (York), Catarina M. Liberato (Kent)
- The international politics of pandemics: Learning lessons from COVID 28 May, 1-2.30pm. Speaker - Professor Simon Rushton, Sheffield
- Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Beyond the Headlines, 14 October, 1.30-2.30pm. Speaker - Dr Peter Finn, Kingston
In addition to these bespoke events, our undergraduate members:
- Can attend any of our virtual events at the members price (which is usually free!)
- Receive a special BISA conference rate as observers
- Take advantage of book discounts from Cambridge University Press (CUP) – 40% off the BISA book series and 25% off other CUP titles
- Access our two journals – Review of International Studies and the European Journal of International Security
- Build a network of contacts within the International Studies community
You can join today as an undergraduate for just £8.50 instead of £17. This membership special offer will be valid until 30 June 2024 and can be taken up by both new members, as well as undergraduates who are renewing.