As part of our ongoing outreach to students and early-career researchers, the BOU can support you in a number of ways, and are aimed at researchers anywhere, not just UK-based. We continue to look for ways of expanding this support and we welcome any new ideas, please contact us.
BOU annual spring conference - reduced and free places, presentations
We offer reduced rates to students in developed countries and a small number of free places for those in developing countries. More details
If you wish to take part in the conference programme, look out for requests for oral papers for individual themes or submit a poster. See individual conference pages.
BOU autumn one-day conference - reduced rates
We can offer students a reduced rate for our autumn one-day meetings. More details
Career Development Bursaries
Introduced in 2011, the BOU aims to award a number of these bursaries each year. Aimed at career development to encourage you to undertake research outside your normal interest area, skill-base or normal institute. More details
Small Research Grants
In addition to the Career Development Bursaries, the BOU's long-standing grants scheme allows for student researchers to apply for funding for specific aspects of your research. See here for more details. More details
BRANTA - BOU Register Avian Thesis Abstracts
Register your Masters or Doctoral thesis online with the BOU. More details
Ibis remains one of the key journals for avian researchers to publish and for reference. Ibis is ranked 2/19 in Ornithology journals with an Impact Factor of 2.295. The delay to publication (from acceptance of ms) can be under 8 weeks for online publication and 12 weeks for print publication.
Students and early-career researchers can get a reduced rate subscription to Ibis when you join the BOU. Join here.
Submit to Ibis - more and more young avian science researchers are seeing Ibis as the publication of choice because of its standing, high potential for citation and speed to publication. Submit here | More about Ibis
