The Capstone Editing Early Career Travel Grant for Academic Women
A grant to provide financial support for academic women who face additional childcare costs when travelling to conduct research or present a paper at a conference.
Overview
The Capstone Editing Carer’s Travel Grant for Academic Women provides up to A$3,000 for one academic per year who is the primary carer of at least one child under five years old (or the primary carer of an older child if you are a single parent or in the case of children with disabilities.)
The grant can be used in whatever way is best for your personal circumstances, for example, to cover the cost of your child or children and a companion to travel with you or to cover the cost of childcare while you are away at a conference or on a research field trip.
As part of the application, you need to outline the scope of your research project and how you plan to use the funds, and provide evidence of the costs involved.
Why we want to help
A major requirement of academics is that they undertake research-related travel. Academics are expected to attend and present their work at interstate and international conferences regularly, and certain disciplines involve extensive fieldwork, sometimes in remote locations. This travel costs both time and money, with academics at times even choosing to fund their own travel due to the intense pressure for career advancement through research and publication. For academics with young children, time spent away from home is often difficult and expensive to organise.
This has a greater effect on female academics: as women across Australia already know, in general, mothers carry the burden of either caring directly for children, or for organising their care by others.
Eligibility
Before applying for this scholarship, please check your eligibility against these criteria:
- You must be a woman.
- You may be employed part time or full time.
- If your application is for a research field trip, the research project must be one intended to lead to publication.
- You may be employed on a continuing or fixed-term basis. (Casual staff are not eligible.)
- You must be the primary carer for one or more children under five (or up to the age of 16 if you are a single parent or in the case of children with disabilities).
- You must already have acquired some or all the funding to conduct your field trip or to attend the conference (as the purpose of this grant is to cover the costs of your children to travel with you).
- You cannot apply if you are an employee or contractor of Capstone Editing (or a family member of an employee or contractor).
- If your application is for a conference, you must be presenting at the conference.
- Previous unsuccessful applicants may reapply every year if they wish.
- Previous recipients of this grant may not apply again.
- You must be employed as an academic staff member in a position that involves research at an Australian or New Zealand university (i.e. staff in teaching-only positions are not eligible and professional staff members are not eligible). You can be employed at any level from Level A to E.
Enquire about a Scholarship
If there is a type of grant you would like us to offer, please let us know. And remember, the more support we receive, the more grants we can provide.