Funding for members to attend scientific conferences

STaRNet London recognises the importance of attending scientific conferences. Presentation of ongoing and recent research results in dissemination and, hopefully, implementation of research findings. It also helps members to develop new skills. Subject to the conditions set out below we will fund reasonable travel and accommodation costs and conference fees for our members.

We need to balance funding members to attend conferences with the need to fund our other activities, especially developing, undertaking and writing up research and applying for external grants.

We recognise that members may wish to attend conferences to learn about research. A small amount of funding is available for this through our training scheme.

Conditions of funding conference attendance

1. Applicants must be members of STaRNet London.
2. Application to STaRNet London for funding for conference attendance must be made 3 weeks before abstract submission deadline. Applications for Mental Health and People with Learning Disability presentations should be made to Dr Mark Ashworth (Mark.Ashworth@gp-g85053.nhs.uk). All other applications should be made to Gill Rowlands (growland@sgul.ac.uk). We will usually only fund one author of each abstract to attend. We will only fund members to attend if their abstract is accepted for oral or poster presentation.
3. The conference should be of national or international importance to primary care.
4. The project to be presented must have also been submitted to a scientific journal for consideration for publication. Exceptionally Drs Ashworth or Rowlands may ask members to submit abstracts for conferences before submission of a scientific paper.
5. For national conferences decisions on funding will be made by two members of the STaRNet London Scientific Committee. For International conferences decisions on funding will be made by members of the STaRNet London Academic Liaison group. For details of group members please contact Gill Rowlands.
6. Funding decisions will be made according to the national or international importance of the conference to primary care and the reviewers' assessment of the national or international importance of the work to be presented.

Please submit the conference abstract application form (with any additional information we need to make a funding decision) to Dr Ashworth or Dr Rowlands.

Thank you.