Dear all, 

A reminder that the deadline to apply for the following 2 travel awards (for an excellent student and postdoc to present their research at a conference) is April 1st 2016.

AVA Travel Awards 2016-17

AVA Travel Awards provide funding (up to £750) for attendance costs at any conference or meeting at which the awardee will be presenting a paper or poster. Admissible costs are transport, registration, accommodation and subsistence (max £20/day) at a conference.

The awards are open to students registered for a PhD and post-docs within 5 year of achieving their PhD. Applicants must be AVA members and have attended at least one AVA meeting in the 18 months previous to the application deadline. Conferences must be held in the period 1st April 2016 – 1st April 2017.

Two awards will be made: one (the CRS award) made possible by a donation from our corporate member Cambridge Research Systems, and the other (the Geoffrey J Burton award) made possible by the Vision Scientists Memorial Fund. Recipients of awards are required to write a conference report for the AVA and CRS websites.

The closing date for applications is 1st April, 2016.

Completed application forms, together with a letter of support from your supervisor, should be sent [log in to unmask]. Applications will be judged on scientific merit by the Executive Committee of the AVA.

An application form can be downloaded from the website http://www.theava.net/awards/awards.html