Grants

ASSTA offers funding to help allay the costs of travelling from Australia or New Zealand to present peer-reviewed papers at overseas conferences. The award is $500. Three major conferences have been chosen for which funding will be provided automatically. These conferences are: ICASSP, Interspeech and ICPhS. Funding will also be considered for other conferences with preference for conferences requiring full paper review and will be subject to funding available and the quality of the submission.

Submissions may be made at any time after notification of acceptance, and no later than two weeks before the conference date.

Eligibility:

(a) The applicant must be an Early Career Ordinary member (i.e. within 5 years from PhD completion) or Student member of ASSTA and must be financial with their membership fees for at least 6 months at the time of application.

(b) The applicant must be conducting research in Australia or New Zealand.

(c) The paper/abstract must have already been accepted for publication by the conference.

(d) The conference must not be held in Australia or New Zealand.

(e) The applicant has not already held an award for that calendar year, i.e. one award per year per person is given.

(f) The applicant must be the first named author of the paper/abstract (principal investigator of the work).

If successful, you will be required to provide proof that you attended the conference (i.e. payment of registration and travel costs) and submit a conference report to the ASSTA newsletter, before payment will be made. You can view reports from past recipients here. ASSTA Travel award claims by successful recipients must be made no later than 3 months after the conference date.

The Primary Carer Support Scheme aims to support members with primary carer responsibilities to present their work at significant national or international conferences, workshops, or symposia relevant to their careers. The award of up to $500 and can be used to contribute to:

• flights/travel for the dependent and an additional carer to accompany the applicant interstate or overseas;
• dependent carer services in the location of the conference, workshop, symposium or fieldwork site;
• alternative carer services in the primary carer's home base.

Eligibility:

(a) The applicant must be a member of ASSTA and must be financial with their membership fees for at least six months at the time of application.(b) The paper must have already been accepted for presentation by the conference/workshop/symposium.(c) The applicant must be the first named author of the paper/abstract (principal investigator of the work).(d) Please note that applicants are eligible for one ASSTA grant (excluding ASSTA event grant) per calendar year;(e) Applicants will be required to provide the following details in their application:

• proof of registration for the conference/workshop/symposium (i.e. payment of registration)
• a detailed rationale with the following subheadings;
  1. nature of participation in the conference
  2. justification of application for carer support in view of usual and extraordinary caring arrangements and detailing why particular costs are necessary. Describe, where appropriate, why alternative, less expensive options are not available, including care by other family members;
  3. budget and budget justification.

Award recipients must submit a conference report to the ASSTA newsletter within 3 months of conference/workshop/symposium attendance.

Application:

To apply, applicants should complete the application form online.