Travel Grants

The RSB offers grants of up to £1,000 to associate (AMRSB) members worldwide.

Applications should be made for future biology-related projects in the UK or abroad, but future overseas conferences will be considered. Applicants may use the award to attract additional funding but the Society will still expect prominent recognition.

This round of travel grants is closed for applications. 

How to apply

• To apply please login to your myRSB account and complete the online grant application.
• Applicants can apply for grants of up to £1,000.
• The application includes sections where you will need to specify details of the conference or project, how the grant money will be spent, how you will benefit from this opportunity, and the expected outcomes of the conference or project. 
• The application must be accompanied by a two-page CV including details of two referees.
• An application guidance document can be downloaded.

Eligibility

If you are unsure which travel grant you are eligible for, or if you are also applying for RSB membership, we would strongly encourage you to send a copy of your CV to membership@rsb.org.uk first, so that we can advise you.

• The grant is open to associate (AMRSB) members worldwide, of the Society only. Those who are eligible to transfer to the member (MRSB) grade will not qualify for the AMRSB award.
• Non-members can apply for the grant providing they have submitted a paid membership application.
• Those who have applied for the grant but have been unsuccessful can apply again.
• Previous Travel Grant recipients are not eligible to apply again.
• Applicants must be over the age of 18 at the time of travel.
• Grants are awarded for future travel only.

Further details

Grant recipients will be personally responsible for all arrangements and expenditure including travel, insurance, home ,and personal commitments.

Recipients must submit a report describing the work carried out with the aid of the award within six weeks of return. The Society has copyright of this report and will publish some or all of the reports online; it may be published in its magazine The Biologist.

The Royal Society of Biology offers grants of up to £1,000 to early career MRSB members worldwide. 

Applications should be made for future biology-related projects in the UK or abroad, or for future overseas conferences where the applicant is presenting a talk or poster. Applicants may use the award to attract additional funding but the Society will still expect prominent recognition. 

This round of travel grants is closed for applications.

How to apply 

• To apply please login to your myRSB account and complete the online grant application.
• Applicants can apply for grants of up to £1,000.
• The application includes sections where you will need to specify details of the conference or project, how the grant money will be spent, how you will benefit from this opportunity, and the expected outcomes of the conference or project.
• The application must be accompanied by a two-page CV and a written academic reference, preferably from a current supervisor.
• An application guidance document can be downloaded.

Eligibility 

If you are unsure which travel grant you are eligible for, or if you are also applying for RSB membership, we would strongly encourage you to send a copy of your CV to membership@rsb.org.uk first, so that we can advise you. 

• The grant is open to MRSB members worldwide in the early stages of their research careers (within five years of completing their undergraduate degree) only.
• Non-members can apply for the grant providing they have submitted a paid membership application.
• Those who have applied for the grant but have been unsuccessful can apply again.
• Previous associate (AMRSB) Travel Grant recipients are eligible to apply.
• Previous Early Career MRSB Travel Grant recipients are not eligible to apply again.
• Grants are awarded for future travel only.

Further details 

Grant recipients will be personally responsible for all arrangements and expenditure including travel, insurance, home and personal commitments. 

Recipients must submit a report describing the work carried out with the aid of the award within six weeks of return. The Society has copyright of this report and will publish some or all of the reports online; it may be published in its magazine The Biologist.

A selection of reports from Travel Grant recipients:

2024 AMRSB recipients

• Phillipa Bates — Field research and data collection for Master's thesis on the diet of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Cyprus
• Lucy Beevors — Research visit and training at the Gorringe Laboratory, Peter MacCullum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Elena Hartmann — Laboratory visit and training with the Blume research group based at the Robert Koch-Institut, and attending the 17th International Congress on Toxoplasmosis, in Berlin, Germany
• Indiana Holt-Morrice — Data collection for Master's research project focused on microbial degradation of plastics using extremophiles from volcanic environments in Naples, Pomezia, and Viterbo, Italy
• Lily Winkler — Attending and presenting at the International Astrocyte School (IAS) in Bertinoro, Italy

2024 MRSB recipients

• Elizabeth Bearblock — Laboratory visit and training at the Fundació Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears, Spain
• Rebecca Bignold — Attending the 12th Young Investigator's Meeting on Smooth Muscle and Lung Structure-Function (YIM), in Winnipeg, Canada, and the American Thoracic Society Conference (ATS), in San Diego, California, USA
• Rachel Hester — Attending and presenting at the 10th World Congress of Herpetology, Kuching, Malaysia
• Emily Stevenson — Attending and presenting at the Environmental Dimension of Antimicrobial Resistance (EDAR7) conference in Montreal, Canada
• Michelle Taylor — Attending the XII Mexican Coral Reef and III Pan American Coral Reef Congress in Ensenada, Mexico, and training at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California, USA

2023 AMRSB recipients

• Rowan Brown — Attending and presenting a research poster at the British Conference on Undergraduate Research 2023 at the University of Warwick, UK
• Rosie Gallagher — Participating in a course on advances in stem cell biology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France
• Molly Kelly — Research project on the prevalence of the rat lungworm among gastropod populations from agricultural lands in Mallorca, Spain
• Emily Lupton — Attending and presenting a research poster at the 18th European Molecular Imaging Meeting in Salzburg, Austria
• Rachel Humann — Participating in an advanced parasitology course in Woods Hole, USA
• Katie Prange — Wildlife monitoring and conservation technology project in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

2023 MRSB recipients

• Joshua Bateman — Attending and presenting a research poster at the Inhaled Particles and NanOEH Conference 2023 in Manchester, UK
• Sarah Nichols — Attending and presenting at The Society of Island Biology (SIB) conference in the Aeolian Islands, Sicily

Contact membership@rsb.org.uk with any queries.