The Postgraduate Bursary Scheme
Small Research Grants and Conference Funding Now Available to Postgraduate Students
The Biosocial Society awards small grants to postgraduate student members of the society. Awards of up to £750 are available to help with costs associated with fieldwork or data collection. Awards of up to £250 are available towards the cost of participation in conferences. There will normally be two deadlines each year, in January and July, with one award of each type available at each round.
To apply, please send a proposal (guidelines below) to the secretary of the
Biosocial Society, Rie Goto (rg277@cam.ac.uk).
The next deadline is 29th January 2010.
Guidelines and application forms are available for download below:
THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT FOR THE WINTER 2009 BURSARY WAS:
BURSARY awarded to Tracey Pierre (Cambridge University) for her work "The Southern Athabascan Migration: a Reanalysis Based on mtDNA."
THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT FOR THE SUMMER 2008 BURSARY WAS:
FIELDWORK BURSARY awarded to Caroline Jones (Durham University) for her work on "Improving understanding of links between sleep duration and obesity in preschool children."
CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR RESEARCH!
Requirements of grant. Student must be a member of the society. To apply for membership please click on the "Apply Here" button on the left, complete the application, and return it to the BioSocial Society with your application fee. As per receipt of grant monies, recipients are required to submit a paper for publication in the society’s journal, Society, Biology and Human Affairs. Monies will be released within three months of application and within six months of dispersal students are required to submit a report on the use of the monies.
For further details, please contact Secretary of the BioSocial Society:
Rie Goto, University of
Cambridge
rg277@cam.ac.uk,
Email
