Students - Benefits & Resources
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www.sor.org
You may already have accessed the public side of the Society of Radiographers website for careers or general information.
As a radiography student, you can access the Members’ section. To log in you will need to know your SoR membership number (from your card) and the postcode of your University.
As well as accessing information, you can participate in one of the SoR Forums. You may, in particular, like to visit the students’ forum where you can discuss issues of interest with other students.
A copy of Synergy and of Synergy News will be sent to your university (these are sent in bulk with sufficient copies for all radiography students). Please make sure you get your copy, because some universities are not very good at distribution.
Synergy provides in depth coverage of the latest professional and educational issues that affect those working in radiography. Synergy News is a lively news digest of what is happening at local health authority, national and international level. It includes information about new publications and forthcoming events and includes recruitment advertising.
Click here for the Synergy and Synergy News archive.
Radiography is a peer review journal for imaging and radiotherapy and oncology.
The articles are all on original work and subject to rigorous review by some of the most accomplished people in the field.
It is published quarterly and can be accessed by clicking here.
The Society and College of Radiographers produce a comprehensive list of publications outlining policy and providing information and guidance. Students can download these by clicking here.
The most important document for students to be aware of is the Statements for Professional Conduct. The purpose of these Statements is to provide guidance to all levels of Radiographers, including students. The document publicly sets out the underpinning values and principles to promote, maintain and disseminate the highest standards of behaviour in order to enhance the good standing and reputation of the radiography profession.
The Society and The College of Radiographers have a close and longstanding association with the British Institute of Radiography (BIR). We share services to the mutual benefit of our members. The College makes a major investment each year in the BIR library to benefit radiographers and students alike.
The BIR Information Centre incorporates a reference library. It is a specialised postgraduate collection, primarily dealing with current research, but it also possesses historical and archival material in its collection.
For further information click here or contact:
Linda Kalinda, Information Centre Manager
Tel: 020 7307 1405
Fax: 020 7307 1414
infocentre@bir.org.uk
There are 25 higher education institutions in the UK that provide diagnostic and therapeutic radiography courses. Each has a library. Click here for web links.
Don’t forget to consult the Synergy, Radiography and Imaging & Oncology article databases.
Don’t forget:
- There is a substantial ‘body of knowledge’ available on the sor.org website, particularly through the wide range of policy documents available to download and article references from Synergy, Radiography and Imaging & Oncology.
- It is your responsibility to find out what is, and what is not, relevant to the chosen topic. No one else can do the work for you. (Please don’t ask staff at the Society to help. Even if they were allowed to, they do not have the time.)
- Your dissertation is to demonstrate your research skills, such as developing a bibliography, speed-reading, searching data bases, and developing means of creating or ordering empirical data. Students have a right to expect regular, sufficient supervision, with the amount of contact agreed between the student and the supervisor as part of the research plan; and the return of draft work within a reasonable length of time from its submission, at intervals agreed between supervisor and supervisee.
- Dissertations always take longer to write than students expect. It is not only the research and drafting which is required. Word-processing the text, inserting quotations, producing footnotes, appendices and a bibliography detailing all sources cited are all time-consuming tasks. All this cannot be achieved realistically in the week before submission is due.
- Presentation of the dissertation is important. However, the written text is the most important aspect and the main basis on which the work will be judged.
Students are very welcome to attend any of the conferences and seminars organised by the Society and College of Radiographers. Places for student registrants are subsidised and substantially cheaper than for other participants. For further information click here.
The Annual Student Conference is arranged specifically for students and provides an opportunity for students to present short papers on topics of interest.
The Society and College provides a web-based CPD tool, CPD Now, to enable all members to plan, undertake and record their CPD activities. As well as being available to all members, enabling the user to have their individual CPD portfolio accredited by the College of Radiographers, it is available for students to use to build up a portfolio as part of their BSc (Hons) coursework. Click here to access CPD Now, please note this will end your sor.org session.
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