Travel Grants for Early-Career Scientists

The Company of Biologist’s travel grant supports students and early career scientists with travel to conferences, workshops, research trips, and laboratory visits. It is a not-for-profit publishing organization dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community. Company of Biologists facilitates scientific meetings, provides travel grants and support research societies.

Eligibility

To apply for the grants:

• you must be a student or early-career scientist member of SEB
• you must be in the second consecutive year of membership or pay for a multi-year membership when joining if you qualify for it
• you must not have received funding from the Company of Biologists in the past 12 months
• your research needs to be within SEB’s remit. This is restricted to the subject areas that are covered by our activities (animal, plant and cell biology). Research directly related to medicine is precluded as it is better funded than most biological disciplines.
• your travel date must occur at least 1 month after the application deadline for the quarter
• applications from scientists who are presenting at a conference or meeting are looked on more favorably than those who are not presenting

Benefits 

• The maximum funding award is £250 for travel within the home country and £500 for overseas travel

Application process

• To apply for a Company of Biologists grant please fill in the online application form.

Please have the following documents (in PDF format) ready to attach with your application:

• two reference letters (one will need to be from your supervisor)
• a letter from your university administration or head of a department confirming your student or early-career scientist status

As part of the application form you will also need to provide:

• a short justification outlining why you should be awarded the grant
• an abstract on your research or on the presentation that you are intending to give

Terms and conditions:

If your application is successful:

• Claim your award within three months of the award notification date
• Funds can only be used for the meeting/ research trips/ workshop that you applied for
• Grant recipients who claimed their award but did not attend the event will be required to repay the grant in full
• You must acknowledge the SEB in any presentation you give. Download the SEB logo and Company of Biologists logo for this purpose.
  
• After your trip, you must send electronic copies of your receipts to show how you spent the grant.
• Write a report of your trip upon your return. Please complete grant report form and return pictures from your trip. Your report may be published in the Travels with My Grant section of the SEB Magazine (website and print).