CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE GRANTS AND AWARDS

The deadline for conference attendance grant applications will be strictly adhered to ensure a fair system is open to all members. All grants are assessed by an independent committee selected by ANZSPED Council.

ANZSPED CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE GRANT

Applications for ANZSPED ASM attendance grants are open to all financial ANZSPED members, who have been a member for at least 3 months at the time of application and who:
Are within 5 years of completing their FRACP (or equivalent) OR who are a registered nurse or allied health professional working with children and adolescents with diabetes or endocrine disorders.
Are either Australian or New Zealand citizens or who have been a resident in Australia or New Zealand for one or more years at the time of the ASM
Have submitted an abstract which has been accepted (to the ASM).

Grants are not open to those persons who are only attending the Fellows Meeting and it is required that recipients of a grant will register and attend for the full ASM. Salaried consultants are not eligible for a grant. Your head of department will be contacted to check your eligibility for the grant.

To apply for a grant, please indicate so during the online abstract submission process, and an ANZSPED representative will be in contact closer to the conference date to confirm if your request was approved and to advise of the value of the grant awarded.

An allotment of money is put aside each year for conference attendance grants. This is then shared amongst those who apply and fulfil the criteria. Therefore, there are no funds available for late applications.The ASM attendance grants are calculated based on the location of the ASM and distance of travel required to attend the meeting. Costs taken into account are discounted economy airfares (if required), early bird registration and shared accommodation. Grants are not designed to cover these costs in full, but to contribute to the cost of attendance.

You must indicate your application for the grant at the time of submitting your abstract. You must also declare any other requests for funding you have received or applied for.

DEADLINE: MONDAY 29 JULY 2024

ANZSPED EMERGING INVESTIGATOR AWARD

This award is presented at the ANZSPED Annual Scientific Meeting to the best scientific presentation by an ANZSPED member within 5 years (or equivalent full time*) of completing their specialist qualifications or higher degrees (eg: FRACP, PhD, MD etc, whichever is earliest). ANZSPED members with established research track records, as evidenced by high impact publications and/or success in post-doctoral research grant funding in Paediatric Endocrinology would not normally be considered appropriate candidates for this award. Previous recipients of the award are also not eligible.

The award is made on the advice of a judging committee, which consists of at least 3 people appointed by ANZSPED Council. Candidates are assessed according to their project’s scientific merit and originality, the contribution of the EI to the study, the clarity of their presentation and their response to questions from the audience.

To allow a clear and open assessment of the EIs contribution to the study, at the time of submission of abstracts, applicants wishing to be considered for the EI Award must outline in detail their contribution to:

- The study design (including literature review)
- The ethics submission
- The data collection, with detail provided on which components of the study the EI has contributed to.

eg subject recruitment, lab animal care, intervention development/validation/delivery, percentage of data entry and cleaning undertaken, creation of a new database, or new fields in an existing database.
- The statistical analysis
- The interpretation of findings
- Abstract tables and images: When an image or graph of another’s work is included, this should be acknowledged in the abstract submission and presentation

The submission form (word document) is available HERE. This form should be countersigned by the applicant’s study supervisor and/ or Head of Department and submitted within 4 days of the close of abstract submission.

Weighting will be given to candidates where the presented work is part of their higher degree (including MMed, MD, PhD, other).

ANZSPED Council reserves the right to make the final decision re the suitability of any applicant for this award.

*justification of the equivalent full time period may be requested at the time of submission of the abstract, to allow reviewers to determine whether an application is eligible for this category of presentation.

DEADLINE: MONDAY 29 JULY 2024