Travel Award for CRS 2018

UKICRS is offering up to two travel awards, each of £1000, for attendance by a postgraduate student or postdoctoral scientist at the CRS Annual Meeting & Exposition in New York, USA (22–24 July 2018). 

Criteria

• Applicants must be UKICRS members and have actively contributed to the UKICRS chapter activities (presentation at UKICRS chapter meeting - poster or oral presentation).
  
• Applicants must be a postgraduate research student or postdoctoral student at a University in the UK or Ireland.
• Applicants must provide a letter of support from their academic supervisor.
  
• Award recipients are required to provide evidence that their abstract has been accepted by CRS for a poster or podium presentation at the CRS 2018 conference.
  
• Award recipients must present at the 2018 CRS conference before the travel award funds are administered.
  
• Award recipients must submit a report about the conference, which will be published in the UKICRS newsletter 2019.

Applications can only be made using the online form right.

Application procedure

• A high resolution version of the figure, the supporting text explaining why the figure is so meaningful to the student (no more that 200 words),
• A short letter of support from their academic supervisor
• A brief description of your contribution to UKICRS activities

The figure together with the supporting documentation should be combined into a single document and then uploaded as a single pdf file of no more than 3 A4 pages in length.
UKICRS will contact the supervisors of the winning students to confirm their registration as PhD students in the UK or Ireland. 


Deadline Extended - The deadline for receipt of applications is 17.00 on Monday February 5th 2018. 

Winning submissions will be published in the 2019 UKICRS Newsletter.