Monthly SIG Spotlights

March 2025

March 2025 Balance Interest Group (BIG)

As we enter spring there are lots of changes afoot in BIG! Rosie Adams leaves her position as Chair of the Steering Committee after many years in the group and will continue to support BIG from the Reference Group (see below). We are grateful to Rosie for leading the group so well during her time as Chair. We also recently welcomed two new members onto the Steering Committee; Irena Bowler and Jen Richardson. They bring a wealth of vestibular experience and knowledge, and we look forward them bringing their enthusiasm to bear on future projects.

Most of the behind-the-scenes work in BIG has for some time now been focused on producing some new recommended procedures (VEMPs and vHIT). We know clinicians are anxious to see these documents and they are now with expert peer reviewers. We have also spent some time updating some of the longer-standing documents (calorics, positioning testing, and eye movement recordings). Hopefully these will be out for membership consultation in the coming months.

Following on from the success of last year’s BIG Small Event held at Aston University we are in the early stages of planning a similar event for spring 2026, and you will hear more about this later in the year. For those of you looking for vestibular-based CPD in the meantime, recordings from some of the presentations at last year’s event are now available on the Online Learning section of the BSA website.

As well as the Steering Committee, we have also established a BIG Reference Group. Those in the group might get involved with the Steering Committee on specific projects, where particular expertise or a few extra pairs of hands are required. If you would like to be part of the Reference Group, or if you would like to get in touch about anything else, please email big@thebsa.org.uk, we’d love to hear from you.