MRS Making the most of your membership MRS membership shows your commitment to research excellence, connects you to a network of 5,000 experts and gives you access to a huge range of specialist benefits. Speaker presentations Mentoring Scheme Specialist networks See past presentations in our bank of filmed events Give your career a boost with our specialist Mentoring Scheme Sign up to a wide range of special interest groups With the current situation, we are providing more online resources for members. If you couldnt make it in person on the night, weve filmed the most popular Speaker Evenings from the past year for you to watch at your leisure. Go to Speaker Evening Presentations in My Membership to view recorded events on: how internet app usage impacts happiness; decoding social and cultural influence; and how online communities can drive digital change. Our specialist Mentoring Scheme gives you a framework to develop a broader set of competences and interpersonal skills. Mentoring can help you to review your approaches and optimise your thinking. As a member, you can apply to be part of the Mentoring Scheme, designed specifically for research professionals, where members are matched with an experienced senior professional. There are currently more than 100 active partnerships. If you are analytically minded, you can sign up to the ADA network, which holds regular symposia and webinars on the latest data science. If you are under 30 years old, then join &more, the network for young research professionals, to benefit from lively events, peer support and the odd party. Supporting our work in diversity, check out MRSpride, which runs events exploring LBGTQ+ representation in the research sector. Access your benefits Sign into your MyMRS member account at mrs.org.uk to access all of your benefits Dont have an account? Its easy to create one at mrs.org.uk (top right-hand tab). From here you can access your benefits, as well as read premium content on research-live.com T he benefits available in your MyMRS account include: GDPR resources; pre-recorded webinars; the Knowledge Centre; Sage Research Methods; guidance on the Code of Conduct; case studies; and IJMR (for CMRS and Fellows) www.mrs.org.uk/membership/benefits 60