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 

Due to the weekend, applications will be accepted to the following Monday (3rd) for the February and November round.

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.