The SEMPRE Conference Awards: Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (sempre)
The SEMPRE Conference Awards
Awards totalling up to £20,000 biennially
Purpose of the Award
The SEMPRE Conference Awards are intended to enable full-time students or part-timers who are non wage earners to attend one of the Society's conferences -particularly the biennial two-day conference- through meeting the fee and the costs of travel and subsistence.
Eligibility
The SEMPRE Conference Awards are open to students who wish to attend and contribute to one of the Society's conferences through offering a presentation or poster.
Criteria
The criteria by which applications will be judged include the importance of attendance at the conference for furthering the studies of the student concerned, and the likelihood of the applicant being unable to obtain funding from other sources.
Applying
Applicants should apply to present a paper or poster to the conference concerned in the usual way, and make it clear they wish to be considered for a SEMPRE Conference Award. In a separate letter they should explain how attendance at the conference will assist them in furthering their studies, give an indication of expected costs, and say why other sources of funding are not likely to be available to them.
The decision-making process
All applications will be considered in the first instance by the organising committee of the conference concerned, and, subject to acceptance, subsequently by representatives of the SEMPRE Awards Panel. Applicants will be informed of the outcome at least eight weeks before the date of the conference. The decision of the panel is final, and the Society regrets that it is unable to enter into any correspondence regarding its decision. Each application is treated individually on its merits; hence previous applicants are not precluded from applying.
Further information
For further information, please contact the Chair, Professor Graham Welch, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)20-7612 6503. Email:
