SARMAC 2025 Travel Awards

The call for applications for Student Travel Grants to SARMAC XV is open!

We are excited to announce that we will be offering a minimum of 6 awards to help students attend SARMAC XV in Kildare, Ireland, to present their work. Based on a recent survey, SARMAC student members indicated overwhelming preference (73%) for the Travel Awards to provide partial attendance support that considers the location of the recipient. Therefore, the award for SARMAC XV will cover the overall conference fees (travel, accommodation, conference fees) at 75%. The maximum value of each award will be USD $2000.

An adjudication committee comprising of the SARMAC Events and Awards committee, early career researchers, and senior PhD students will blindly review the applications. The grants will be awarded based on research quality and lack of alternative financial assistance. Please see the adjudication rubric here.

To apply for funding, please complete this Travel Grants Application Form and then email the completed form to students@sarmac.org by February 28, 2025. Any student who is presenting (talk, poster) is eligible to apply.

To apply, you must:

Have student status at the time of applying for SARMAC XV.
Be responsible for presenting the project.
Be present throughout the duration of the conference.
Be a SARMAC student member.

Materials that need to be submitted to students@sarmac.org by Feb 28th:

Completed application form.
A PDF with evidence of estimated budget costs (where possible)
A letter of support from your primary supervisor

We strongly encourage any student who is planning to present at the conference to apply! If you have any questions, please email students@sarmac.org

Decisions will be made by March 21, 2025 (just prior to the early-bird registration deadline).

We look forward to seeing you in Ireland!

The SARMAC Student Caucus

Diversity and Inclusion Travel Awards for SARMAC 2025: the call is Open!

SARMAC is committed to fostering the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion within our community, and we are dedicated to removing barriers that that have been historically encountered and are currently experienced by some members of our society. We believe that the diversity of our researchers will serve as a strength of SARMAC and a benefit to society.

We are therefore excited to announce that we will be offering a minimum of 10 awards to help researchers from all backgrounds and geographic locations attend SARMAC 2025 in Kildare, Ireland, to present their work. We welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialised persons, visible minorities, women, persons with disabilities, sexual and gender minorities, and members of all underrepresented groups who lack funding opportunities to support their participation at SARMAC.

Based on a recent survey, SARMAC members indicated overwhelming preference (87%) for the Diversity and Inclusion Travel Awards to provide partial attendance support that considers the location of the recipient. Therefore, the award for SARMAC 2025 will cover the conference fees (at the Student/Full Member early-bird rate) and 50% of either travel or accommodation expenses (based on applicant’s preference). The maximum value of each award will be $1200 USD (approx. €1087).

Applicants must:

Be a SARMAC member. Note that any members who meet the eligibility criteria are welcome to apply, and note that students are welcome to apply for both the Student Travel Award and the Diversity and the Inclusion Travel Award (if awarded both, one award will “top up” the other award to cover 100% expenses).
Be responsible for presenting a project at the conference.
Be present throughout the duration of the conference.

To apply, you will need:

Your 100-word short abstract
A 500-word research summary
A 500-word description of your need for travel assistance and accompanying diversity statement
An estimated budget for your travel & accommodation costs, and a PDF with evidence of those estimated costs (where possible).

Please submit a summary (e.g., a table) of your total requested costs. The summary should include the cost of fees you are requesting, and 50% of either accommodation or travel, based on which cost you are looking to cover. Please indicate the requested costs in USD (convert currencies if necessary).

Applications will open January 1st 2025 and submissions will close on February 28, 2025. Applications should be emailed to codi@sarmac.org

If you have any questions, please email the SARMAC Committee on Diversity and Inclusion at codi@sarmac.org.