PGSA Academic Conference Grant

History and purpose:

In 2010, the PGSA began offering travel grants for research students to gain experience presenting at international conferences (formerly the “PGSA Travel Grants”).

In 2015, the PGSA reconfigured the PGSA Travel Grants to ensure improved equitable distribution of funds and increased numbers of successful candidates.

In 2019, the PGSA restructured the PGSA Academic Conference Grants as untagged travel grants to provide successful candidates the freedom to utilise the funds to cover costs associated with international conference attendance.

In July 2020, the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, eligibility was temporarily extended to include domestic and remote/virtual academic conferences.

The purpose of the PGSA Academic Conference Grant is to provide current Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington postgraduate research students with funds to aid presenting research at academic conferences - international, domestic, and remote/virtual.

Applicants must be:

• Presenting their research – either as an oral or poster presentation – at an academic conference which may be international, domestic, or remote/virtual;
• Current postgraduate students enrolled in research-based qualifications at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington;

Selection Criteria:

• Applicants must be current postgraduate students at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
• Applicants must be applying for an untagged grant of $1000 to cover conference travel-related costs only; and either be (a) applying for a conference occurring at most THREE months ago from the date of application (subject to PGSA Executive Meeting processes); or (b) applying for a conference due to occur within TEN months of a candidate currently enrolled as a postgraduate student (excluding Honours qualifications)