Graduate Research and Innovations Fund
The following research students successfully were awarded funding from the most recent Graduate Research & Innovation Fund (November 12):
Erika Bernacchi (Social Justice) was awarded reimbursement of expenses incurrent to present at a conference in University of Padua in October (€161.40)
Louise Burns (Gpep) was awarded to present at the Planning Law & Property Rights conference in Oregan in February 2013 (€500);
Ciara Cassells (Psychology) was awarded €500 in order to present a poster at the International Family Therapy conference in Orlando, February 2013;
Jerry Dixon (Psychology) was also awarded €300 to present at the 16th Congress of the European Association of Work & Organisational Psychology in Munster, Germany next May;
Adam Girard (Information & Library Studies) received €300 towards expenses received at the International Federation of Library Association in Helsinki last August. He was also the juried award winner for the 2012 De Gruyter Saur / IFLA research paper award;
Reza Hassanzadeh (Gpep) will be awarded €300 towards presenting at the International Conference on Geoinformation for Diaster Management in Enschede next December;
Patricia Keilthy (Applied Social Science) will be reimbursed €225 from presenting a paper at EQUALSOC/ECSR conference in Stockholm in September;
Jennifer Kimberly (Politics & International Relations) will receive €300 towards attending the ECPR Winter School in Methods & Techniques in Vienna in February 2013;
Fergal McHugh (Philosophy) will receive €500 towards presenting a paper at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 7-9 March 2013;
Michael Savage (Economics) will be funded €300 to attend the Masterclass in the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice in London, March 2013;
Bart Zantvoort (Philosophy) will be reimbursed €363 for expenses incurred while presenting a paper at the Hegel Society in Istanbul last October;
Zhao Zhang (Gpep) will be awarded €200 to present at the International Spatial & Social Transformation in Urban China conference in Hong Kong in December.
Grants of between €100 and €1000 may be made available by the College of Human Sciences to support the educational, training and research endeavours of graduate research students within the Graduate School. Such funds may be applied to (but are not restricted to):
- Participation at professional academic conferences (in Ireland and overseas) at which the student is presenting a paper (as sole or co-author) or poster.
- Participation in professional academic workshops, symposia, summer schools or Master Classes at other university or research institutions to which the student has applied and been accepted and which are deemed appropriate by that student’s DSP.
- Support for graduate student initiatives in organising graduate workshops, symposia or Master Classes to be held at UCD.
- Support for the purchase of research infrastructure (software licences etc) only where such purchase will result in a net gain to the graduate community as a whole. Co-funding (from School, thematic programme and/or external agency) is a pre-condition for the consideration of such applications.
- The event for which funding is being awarded must take place within six months before and six months after the submission deadline for the grant. Exceptions to this are only granted under very exceptional circumstances.
The fund cannot support basic research functions necessary to the research project itself such as field research, data gathering, data analysis etc. Applications to purchase personal computers, laptops or books cannot be accepted.
The following conditions apply to applications for the above:
- All applicants must be fully registered graduate research students whose primary supervisor is a staff member of a School within the College of Human Sciences.
- All applicants must be in satisfactory fee status.
- Incomplete and/or unsigned applications will not be considered.
- Notification of awards will be made publicly on the Graduate School web site no later than 10 working days after the deadline.
- Claims must be submitted within one month from the date of the event for which the award has been made, or within one month of the award, whichever is later, otherwise this award will be disallowed.
At least two calls for applications under the GRIF are made each year (October and April). A template for such applications is provided and completed applications must be signed by a member of the student’s DSP/MRP. Each application will be judged under specific criteria by a subcommittee nominated by the Graduate School Board. The Graduate School Director shall chair the subcommittee.
In respect of applications for various categories of travel grant – and for indicative purposes only – the maximum likely award for Ireland-based events will be €250; for comparable events elsewhere in Europe, €500; and for exceptional overseas events, €750. All expenses (travel, subsistence, registration fees) must be specified in advance and itemised and evidenced by way of receipts on return. No funding will be made for non-receipted expenses and no advances may be paid. Students must submit original receipts and boarding pass stubs (if available) for reimbursement.
All claims for which the grant is sought must be submitted within one month to the CHS Graduate School after the event takes place, or within one month of the award, whichever is later, otherwise they will be disallowed.
All recipients of GRIF support for presenting papers at professional academic conferences will be automatically included as applicants to submit their paper at the annual College of Human Sciences Graduate Research Symposium and/or College-sponsored PhD roundtables.
Applicants must sign that they have read and accept the terms and conditions of the Graduate Research & Innovation Fund.
The next deadline for submission is April 2013. Further details will be released in due course.
Application Form (MS Word)
Ms Margaret Brindley
Graduate School Manager
G209, Newman Building
Tel: 716 8268
Email: margaret.brindley@ucd.ie
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