Membership

Benefits

There have been many changes in the organisation and funding of teaching and research in recent years, and these show no signs of slowing. Psychologists are adapting to ever-increasing demands for high performance and professionalism, with ever-decreasing resources. These demands create a need for new forms of continuing professional development, and new understandings of ethical and other dilemmas raised by our working environments. We require new policies, codes of practice and sources of information, to assure our own career interests in conjunction with the interests of those to whom we are responsible, both our clients and our funders, are met. A numerically strong and widely participative Division will ensure that the Society is able to continue to stand for the highest professional standards in teaching and research, whilst at the same time being a powerful advocate of proper resourcing and recognition of the highly skilled practice of research and teaching by our members.

Members of the Division take part in professionally advantageous symposia and internet/web fora, are sent bulletins and newsletters with The Psychologist and receive the peer-refereed Psychology Teaching Review. Full membership of the Division by either or both the teaching or research routes confers entitlement to Chartered Psychologist status; however, joining the Register of Chartered Psychologists requires a separate application.

Benefit's of joining the Division include;

• The DTRP membership publication - Psychology Teaching Review
  
• The DTRP newsletter
• Reduced fees at Division events
  
• Increased website access - including events listings
• Joining the Society media database

• One year complementary ATP membership and associated reductions on Society journals

• Division Bursary scheme

Next Deadline: Jan 8th 2010

Following Deadline: Nov 8th 2010

Who can join?

The Division is committed to exercising flexibility in the way the criteria for membership are interpreted and developed, in order to admit all those who can demonstrate that they have reached an appropriate level of professional functioning in teaching or research.

Full Membership - This membership category is open to members of the Society with the Graduate Basis for Registration who have demonstrated their competence in teaching or research after the equivalent of five or more years of supervised and assessed professional activity. Membership by the research route will normally require a PhD or equivalent research experience. Membership by the teaching route can be by a variety of means, including evidence of professional contributions such as examinerships or published teaching materials, or appropriate qualifications. For further details, consult the Rules of the Division DTRP Standardised Rules.PDF .

Affiliate Membership - This membership category is open to any member of the Society who is working towards the competences required for full membership (e.g. registered for a research degree, or training for a teaching qualification such as PGCE).

Corresponding Membership - This membership category is open to Student Subscribers, Members or Foreign Affiliates of the Society who do not qualify for Full or Affiliate Membership of the Division.

You can download application forms for the Division here. If you are uncertain about your eligibility as a member view our queries page for responses to frequently asked questions, if you are still unsure you can contact the Membership Team (e-mail: applications@bps.org.uk; telephone: +44 (0)116 252 9911).