Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange

Applications are assessed according to three main criteria:

1. Benefit that the exchange will have on the applicant’s career or research

• What specific training will be undertaken or carried out during your visit?
• What skills or knowledge will you develop or teach?
• What impact will this visit have on your current research and/or career?
• Have you encountered any barriers that this training will overcome?
• What problem or issue will this teaching aim to solve?

2. Financial need for support

• A clear and detailed breakdown of costs should be included.
• Do you have any provisions for travel in your research grant or PhD programme?
• Why are you requesting funds from the Society and why this particular level of support?
• Applicants are encouraged to apply for other funding to help attend the lab visit and provide details of this.
  

3. Teaching and dissemination of knowledge

• Detailed plans for the dissemination of the knowledge transferred.
• How will the knowledge or skills be transferred beyond the fellow or host lab to improve research in the lower-income economy country?
• Examples of knowledge transfer e.g., research seminar, workshops, creation of resources or training.
• Indication of the scope e.g., How many people will benefit? What research or experiments can be carried out as a result? What skills will be developed?
  

Applications are considered three times a year, the deadlines for which are: 

• 1 February for visits after 1 March 
• 1 July for visits after 1 August 
• 1 November for visits after 1 December 

Please note we aim to send round the outcome of applications three to four weeks after the deadline of the round that has been applied to.