Conference Grants

The Anatomical Society offers a limited number of Research Studentships, normally held in University departments whose field of work includes Anatomical Sciences, in the UK and Ireland. Applications are currently being invited from prospective supervisors for Research Studentships to commence in October 2026. The closing date for applications is midnight Tuesday 19th August 2025. For the seventh year, the Society is reserving a studentship for an early career investigator (ECI). An ECI is a person with a lectureship or independent research fellowship who is within 12 years of being awarded a PhD, exclusive of career breaks, who has guaranteed employment for the duration of the studentship and who has not held an AS PhD Studentship previously. The application will be judged according to different criteria than the regular studentship submissions, with more emphasis on project design and training provided than on track record. The proposal will still have to meet the high standard expected.

Award: Funding is provided for three years to cover the stipend of the student, tuition fees, generous contribution toward project running costs, and a travel allowance for attendance at an Anatomical Society meeting in each year of the award and to one international meeting.

Application deadline: Deadline midnight Tuesday 19th August 2025.

For student members who would like to attend a Society meeting but cannot afford the fees or travelling expenses.

Award and application deadline: See website for specific details

The purpose of the Scientific Meeting Grant is to financially assist members to attend an appropriate applied microbiology scientific meeting.

Award: £300 to £600

Application deadline: Four weeks prior to the event

Conference grants are available to help postgraduate students, and others, attend ASAB conferences. Applicants must be ASAB members or have applied for membership.

Award: To provide a contribution towards the cost of accommodation and meals at the conference and the cost of travel to and from the conference, up to a maximum grant of £400.

Application deadline: Must be received by 1 March for the Easter meeting, 1 July for the Summer meeting and 1 October for the Winter meeting

Student travel grants are available to attend a Biochemical Society-focused meeting, workshop, Annual Symposium, Young Life Scientists' Symposium or a Biochemical Society-supported independent meeting.

Award: See website for specific details

Application deadline: See website for specific deadlines

The awards take the form of a voucher that gives a discount on accommodation and other charges set out on any booking form for a meeting or foray of the Society. Travel expenses will not be met.

Award: See website for specific details

Application deadline: Must be received at least two months before the meeting

The British Pharmacological Society (BPS) provides bursaries and travel grants to support the attendance of undergraduate, postgraduate, and post-doctoral members of the BPS at pharmacology-related symposia, conferences, and meetings.

Award: Up to £2,500

Application deadline: Applications for funding are assessed three times a year. Deadlines for submitting grant applications are 31 January, 31 May, and 30 September.

The British Society for Neuroendocrinology give travel money to enable postgraduate students to attend the annual BSN meetings in the UK.

Award: £150

Application deadline: After the annual meeting

The Cyclamen Society Trustees have established this fund, worth £10,000 per year, to fund projects which will support the Society in fulfilling its aims to enhance our knowledge of the genus Cyclamen.

Award: Up to £5,000

Application deadline: 30 April

This grant finances travel to any academic conference relevant to the applicant's work that falls within the domain of EPS interests as defined by the content of the Society's journals.

Award: Limited to £500

Application deadline: See website for specific deadlines

For individuals who wish to attend meetings, conferences, or for other travel (in which a substantial proportion of the activity must be devoted to science relating to the use, care, and/or welfare of laboratory animals). Postgraduate students, or those with limited funding, are encouraged to apply.

Award: Up to £1000

Application deadline: See website for specific deadlines

Awards of up to £2,000 are available to members who wish to organise a conference in any field of microbiology, either independently or in partnership with another Society.

Award: Up to £2,000

Application deadline: 16 December and 12 June

Society grants and awards support Society of Endocrinology members in a range of ways, including enabling them to attend scientific conferences, visit other labs and clinics, fund undergraduate summer placements, support early career projects, or develop public engagement initiatives.

Award and application deadline: See website for specific details

Students and early careers scientists can apply for funding of up to £400 to attend the SEB Annual Meeting,

Award: Up to £400

Application deadline: See website for specific deadlines

The CoB travel grant supports students and early career scientists with travel to conferences, workshops, research trips, and laboratory visits.

Award: £250 for travel within home country and £500 for overseas travel

Application deadline: See website for specific deadlines

This travel grant is available to outstanding postdoctoral researchers, normally within six years of receiving a doctoral degree, working in the field of genetics

Award: Up to £6,000 p.a.

Application deadline: Ongoing and should be made to The General Secretary of the Institute, by email

Grants to support attendance by junior scientists at conferences on research in genetics. The scheme has three main streams: (A) to support attendance at meetings organised directly by the Genetics Society or sponsored by the Society as a Special Interest Group (SIG); (B) to support attendance at non-Genetics Society meetings; and (C) to support attendance of virtual conferences.

Awards: Up to £200 for Scheme A, £750 for Scheme B, and £300 for Scheme C.

Application deadlines: See website for details

Funding for experienced researchers, in academia, or as established independent researchers, to undertake research on a topic of their choice. Funding covers research costs, replacement teaching costs, or loss of earnings. Fellowships are offered for periods of 3 to 24 months.

Award: Up to £50,000

Application deadline: See website for specific deadlines

For established UK researchers to spend time in one or more research centres outside the UK, in order to develop new knowledge, skills, and ideas. Fellowships are offered for periods of 3 to 12 months.

Award: Up to £40,000

Application deadline: See website for specific deadlines

Providing research expenses of up to £24,000 over up to two years to enable senior researchers who have retired from an academic post to complete a research project and prepare the results for publication. 

Award: Up to £24,000

Application deadline: See website for specific deadlines

To attend and present at a scientific conference. (Please note: Undergraduates are not required to present work).

Award: See website for details

Application deadline: Submission deadlines are on the last day of each month. Applications must be received in advance of the deadline that falls at least one month before the event takes place.