The British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) is a scientific society (registered charity no. 1174127) which promotes research to understand the causes and effects of the ageing process. The BSRA encourages publication and public understanding of ageing research and holds an annual scientific meeting. Many notable scientists with an interest in ageing are either past or current members of the organisation, which has exerted a marked influence on ageing research within the United Kingdom and internationally. Activities Rationale According to the earliest rules of the British Society for Research on Ageing (1954): However, in 1956 the Annual General Meeting of the society revised the rules such that: Since 1979 the objectives of the society have been as follows: through research, to increase knowledge of the processes, causes and effects of ageing, and, as indicated, of means for counteracting these, both in human beings and in other organisms to publish the results of all such research to further public education therein Thus, the Society seeks to improve understanding of the fundamental biology of ageing, as well as to educate the public regarding the scientific developments taking place in the field of modern gerontology. More recently the society has begun to directly fund research into the biology of ageing, including funding of £54,750 to the end of a three-year PhD studentship at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease Scientific Meetings The society currently organises at an annual scientific meeting and contributes to the activities of other organisations with similar goals on an ad hoc basic. Sample scientific meetings include: 50th Annual Scientific Meeting (2000) Stem cells, stress and senescence 51st Annual Scientific Meeting (2001) A Meeting of Minds (joint meeting between the BSRA and Research Into Ageing) 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting (2003) Nutrition and Healthy Ageing 54th Annual Scientific Meeting (2004) Ageing Cell, Ageing Body 55th Annual Scientific Meeting (2005) Is ageing skin deep? 58th Annual Scientific Meeting (2008) Ageing: Molecules to Man 59th Annual Scientific Meeting (2009) Engineering a Healthy Future 60th Annual Scientific Meeting (2010) Systems biology of ageing 61st Annual Scientific Meeting (2011) The science of ageing: Global Progress (joint with the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology) 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting (2012) Ageing: mechanisms and mitigants 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting (2013) New directions and Targets for Research on Ageing. Influences of diet, microbiota and intestinal immunity 64th Annual Scientific Meeting (2014) Exercise, Activity and