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BSI strategy 2021-2025

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BSI strategy 2021-2025

The British Society for Immunology strategy sets our direction and priorities for the next five years from 2021–2025. 

Building on the strong foundations of our past work and guided by our updated vision and mission statements and set of values, this ambitious strategy lays out how we will work with our membership to deliver for the immunology and wider community over the coming years. As the UK’s leading charity and scientific society representing the immune research sector, we are confident that we will fulfil this strategy to lead a positive change towards our vision of better health for all through immunology.

    Download the full BSI strategy document.pdf (2 MB)
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    Our vision
    Better health for all through immunology

    Our mission
    We are committed to supporting our immunology community in driving scientific discovery and making a positive impact on health. 

    Our values
    We are:

    • Ambitious and committed

    • Evidence-based and responsible

    • Collaborative and inclusive

    • Agile and energetic


     

    BSI Strategy

    Our 2021-2025 strategy

    Our strategic plan for 2021 to 2025 is ambitious and forward thinking and places members at the heart of our mission to support our immunology community in driving scientific discovery and making a positive impact on health. It consists of three core priority areas - Connected community, Championing careers, Catalysing change - underpinned by three core enablers to ensure we have the finance and infrastructure in place to successfully deliver our goals. 

    1. Connected community

    By 2025, we will provide the immunology community with support to establish more connections and enhance collaboration, both within the field, and with other related scientific disciplines and between sectors.

    We will do this by: 

    • Expanding our activities and support to further enable our members to network and engage with each other across the immunology community 
    • Increasing the number and diversity of interdisciplinary connections with industry as well as between immunology and other relevant research and clinical fields 
    • Initiating and supporting national and topic-specific research consortia efforts relevant to immunology by three core enablers to ensure we have the finance and infrastructure in place to successfully deliver our goals. 

    2. Championing careers

    By 2025, we will provide sector leading support to attract and retain talent in immunology.

    We will do this by: 

    • Up-skilling and training more of our members than ever before 
    • Creating a more inclusive and supportive research culture and community, assisting our members and providing opportunities for a career in immunology 
    • Recognising and promoting outstanding achievements and performance from BSI members

    3. Catalysing change

    By 2025, we will influence and improve the external environment to enable immunology to thrive and deliver positive outcomes for health.

    We will do this by: 

    • Having demonstrable impact on public health, policy, practice and research funding issues important to immunology and our members 
    • Influencing public opinion and engagement in key immunology matters 
    • Maintaining the BSI as an internationally respected thought leader

    Our enablers

    To deliver our ambitious strategic aims, we need to maintain the BSI as a sector-leading organisation.

    We will do this by: 

    • Creating a larger and more diverse engaged membership 
    • Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in all our activities 
    • Ensuring the Society’s financial sustainability
    BSI Values

    Our promise to you 

    Our new values make it clear how the BSI will work to meet our mission – to support our immunology community in driving scientific discovery and making a positive impact on health. Our values tell you who we are as an organisation, what we stand for and ensure that our focus is clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead. Our values will be evident in what we do, how we do it, and how we work together. Through living these values, we will maximise the impact we make for immunology.

    Diversity & Inclusion at the BSI

    Embedding equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in all our activities is one of the cornerstones of our strategic plan. Our aim is to foster a culture within immunology that ensures fair treatment and opportunity for all. Our Diversity & Inclusion framework outlines our commitment to how we are going to work with our members and community to ramp up our EDI work and respond to members’ needs. 

    To realise our vision of better health for all through immunology we need to build a fairer, more inclusive immunology community, with and for our members. Building on past and ongoing activities, our new framework highlights some of our future focal areas for diversity and inclusion at the BSI, and begins to set our long-term plan of action in this area.

    If you have questions, comments or feedback on this framework or diversity and inclusion matters, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us at inclusion@immunology.org.

    We look forward to working with all of you over the next five years to deliver on our mission to support our immunology community in driving scientific discovery and making a positive impact on health.

    Download the full BSI strategy document.pdf (2 MB)
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    Download the full BSI strategy document.pdf (2 MB)