📢📢Call for Applications: ACU Early Career Conference Grants & Supporting Research Community Training Grants 2024
The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) is calling for applications for the Early Career Conference Grants and Supporting Research Community Training Grants. Both schemes will close on 24 April 2024 at 00:00am HKT.
1. Early Career Conference Grants 2024
The Early Career Conference Grants support emerging researchers who have never travelled for work purposes (including conferences) outside their region of employment since the start of their academic career to attend and take part in an in-person conference in a Commonwealth country which take place between August 2024 and February 2025.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be an early career researcher/academic at an ACU member university, including CUHK.
- Be within seven years of the start of their academic (research/teaching) career, with the exception of those who have had career breaks (a period of time out from employment for personal or professional reasons).
- Have not previously travelled for work purposes (including conferences) outside their region of employment since the start of their academic career.
- Not be a previous recipient of an ACU Early Career Conference Grant (previously known as Early Career Academic Grants).
Scope of support
Up to GBP 2,000 to cover conference registration fee, flights, accommodation, visa costs, and travel and health insurance.
Grant details and application
Please refer to the webpage for further information. For application, interested parties should first register for a MyACU account and log in to the system to access the application form. Application should be submitted with the required information by 24 April 2024 at 00:00am HKT.
2. Supporting Research Community Training Grants 2024
The Supporting Research Community Training Grants support staff at ACU member university, including CUHK, to organise and deliver training for their early and/or mid-career researchers including doctoral candidates. The training must take place between August 2024 and February 2025. A total of 10 grants will be offered, with a maximum amount of GBP 1,000 each.
Eligibility
CUHK staff who leads on providing training for early and/or mid-career researchers can apply. Applicants can define an early/mid-career researcher by the internal criteria of their faculty/department/unit.
Requirements of the training
- Doctoral candidates must be included in the training, which must also be made available to target audiences from multiple disciplines.
- One output from the training must be made available to be shared with other ACU member university.
- Applicants are strongly encouraged to make the training available to other ACU member university if possible.
- Applications for funding existing training courses will not be considered.
Skills which are in scope of the training include:
- Presentation skills
- Networking
- Time management
- Public engagement and communicating with non-academic audiences
- Media training
- Social media
- Relationship/stakeholder management
- Grant writing
- Research data management
- Career training, including doctoral careers outside higher education
Grants details and application
For further information, please refer to the webpage. For application, interested parties should first register for a MyACU account and log in to the system to access the application form. Application should be submitted with the required information by 24 April 2024 at 00:00am HKT.
Enquiries
For enquiries of the above two grants, please send an email to Info-ACUGrants@acu.ac.uk.
Applicants of the above grants are advised to send a copy of their application to the Office of Academic Links (c/o Ms. LAI Ching Yee; chingyee@cuhk.edu.hk) for record.