Fieldwork, Conference and Travel Funding
Department Conference Fund
A small budget is available to help with travel, accommodation, registration fees and poster printing for students who will be presenting at conferences. We expect to be able to award funds for a limited number of requests with a limit of £500 per application and no more than one award per person per academic year. Students are expected to have requested funds from other sources. For any posters printed, we expect these to be presented at the next available research afternoon.
Applications for remainder of 24/25 academic year will be considered on a rolling basis - Please submit an application form to Fiona Roby fr288@cam.ac.uk
If you are attending a local conference and just need help with poster printing please contact Fiona Roby who can help with printing on the understanding that your poster will be presented at the next available Departmental Research afternoon.
Fieldwork Fund
Funds are available for postgraduate students for research trips away from Cambridge and not covered by other sources.
The trips being funded must require residence outside Cambridge, and may include lab visits, fieldwork for research purposes (eg data collection or analysis), or specialist training. The remit of this fund does not include attendance to conferences. Travel and accommodation costs as well as additional non-travel living expenses and reasonable research costs may be requested. Students whose grant includes research training support elements must utilise those funds first. Students are also expected to ask their colleges for financial support where available. Students whose research is part of a larger programme within their lab are urged to explain why their fieldwork requires additional support. Students whose applications are successful can be paid in advance but will have to keep a record of expenditure with receipts that will have to be submitted afterwards (any unaccounted funds will have to be returned). Alternatively they can claim back expenses on return (again receipts will be required for any claimed costs). Travel can also be booked directly via the Department.
Please be aware there are limited funds available to the department and the committee would not expect to approve more than one application per person per year and no single application at more than £2600, and this is subject to availability of funding. Where funds are available the committee may consider applications for more than this amount where they are strongly justified and where the applicant can show that they have sought funds from other sources.
Note: An application for Leave to Work Away must be submitted for the period of fieldwork - see info here:
https://www.cambridgestudents.cam.ac.uk/your-course/postgraduate-study/your-student-status/work-away
Application Process:
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis by the Graduate Education Committee - please send completed application form to Fiona Roby fr288@cam.ac.uk
Fieldwork funding application form
Charles Slater Fund
Travel funding for conferences and research available - see here for more details: http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/funding/slater
Soulsby Travelling Fellowships
Soulsby Fellowships are granted to medical or veterinary graduates who propose an impactful project within the international field of ‘One Health’. https://soulsbyfoundation.org/travelling-fellowships/
Cambridge Philosophical Society travel grants
https://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/travel-grants
Note: You need to be a member of the Society - please ask Fiona Roby for list of potential proposers.
The Society will consider applications from Fellows for a limited number of grants for travel within and outside the United Kingdom to attend conferences and make research visits to laboratories. Applicants may make one application per year to the Society, with the maximum grant per application not normally exceeding £500. The maximum total amount awarded to a PhD student over a three-year period will not normally exceed £1,500.
Gravity Travel Awards
The travel awards come from Cambridge Gravity, a new fundraising vehicle for Science at the University. The awards can be used for conferences or visits for collaborative research and are worth £500. For details and application form, please go to the Gravity web site: http://www.gravity.cam.ac.uk/travelaward/
Other sources: search the University Funding Database:
Click here: https://www.student-funding.cam.ac.uk/