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BERA Presidential addresses

BERA has collected every Presidential Address, to make these important historical records available to everyone. They can be viewed or downloaded below.

Vivienne Baumfield
(BERA President 2022-2024)

Presidential Address – Video

Presidential Address – BERJ

 

Dominic Wyse
(BERA President 2019-2022)

Presidential Address – Video

Presidential Address – BERJ

Gary McCulloch
(BERA President 2017-2019)

Presidential Address – Video

Presidential Address – BERJ

Gemma Moss
(BERA President 2015-2017)

Presidential Address – Video

Presidential Address – BERJ

Ian Menter
(BERA President 2013-2015)

Presidential Address – Video

Presidential Address – BERJ
Mary James
(BERA President 2011-2013)
Presidential Address		 John Gardner
(BERA President 2009-2011)
Presidential Address
Pamela Munn
(BERA President 2007-2009)
Presidential Address		 Geoff Whitty
(BERA President 2005-2007)
Presidential Address
John Furlong
(BERA President 2003-2005)
Presidential Address		 Anne Edwards
(BERA President 2001-2003)
Presidential Address
Peter Mortimore
(BERA President 1999-2001)
Presidential Address		 Pamela Lomax
(BERA President 1998-1999)
Presidential Address
Margaret Brown
(BERA President 1997-1998)
Presidential Address		 Donald McIntyre
(BERA President 1996-1997)
Presidential Address
Roger Murphy
(BERA President 1995-1996)
Presidential Address		 Jean Rudduck
(BERA President 1994-1995)
Presidential Address
Wynne Harlen
(BERA President 1993-1994)
Presidential Address		 Caroline Gipps
(BERA President 1992-1993)
Presidential Address
Michael Bassey
(BERA President 1991-1992)
Presidential Address		 Sally Brown
(BERA President 1990-1991)
Presidential Address
John Elliott
(BERA President 1989-1990)
Presidential Address		 Jack Whitehead
(BERA President 1988-1989)
Presidential Address
Patricia Broadfoot
(BERA President 1987-1988)
Presidential Address		 Bryan Dockrell
(BERA President 1986-1987)
Presidential Address
Brian Wilcox
(BERA President 1985-1986)
Presidential Address		 David Hamilton
(BERA President 1984-1985)
Presidential Address
Sara Delamont
(BERA President 1983-1984)
Presidential Address		 Peter Chambers
(BERA President 1982-1983)
Presidential Address
Tedd Wragg
(BERA President 1981-1982)
Presidential Address		 Bruce Choppin
(BERA President 1980-1981)
Presidential Address
Lawrence Stenhouse
(BERA President 1979-1980)
Presidential Address		 Jim Eggleston
(BERA President 1978-1979)
Presidential Address
Brian Simon
(BERA President 1977-1978)
Presidential Address		 Jack Wrigley
(BERA President 1976-1977)
Presidential Address
Edgar Stones
(BERA President 1975-1976)
Presidential Address		  
Inaugural President
John Nisbet
(BERA President 1974-1975)
Presidential Address

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