Guidelines for Awarding Financial Support to
Attend ISAJE Conferences
General principles
1. The aim of the guidelines is to lay out criteria
for the discretionary award of support to attend ISAJE's annual
conference.
2. Support can be for travel, accommodation,
or the delegate fee, or a combination. It may be a direct
money grant, or take the form of remission of the delegate
fee, or a paid air ticket or hotel bill.
Funds
3. Funds shall be set aside from ISAJE's general
budget, separate from the conference transactions. The Board
will allocate a maximum amount of funds each year, on the
recommendation of the scheme administrators (see below).
4. No money will be paid unless receipts are
received in the ISAJE office.
5. Awards made will appear in the Society accounts
in anonymised form.
Administrators
6. Two serving members of the ISAJE Board, plus
either the current or past treasurer, shall be responsible
for administering the scheme. If an administrator is subject
to conflict of interest, the executive officer shall act on
his or her behalf.
Administration
7. The amount to be awarded, and the number
of people helped, is at the discretion of the administrators.
Subject to there being funds available, there shall be no
maximum or minimum support for any individual. The appropriate
level of support will be determined according to the demonstrated
need of the person making the request.
8. The administrators shall decide whether,
and how, to publicise the funds available for support. They
may prefer to solicit applications; or leave people free to
approach them with a request.
Applicants
9. The person making the request need not be
a member of ISAJE, but is likely to be a potential member
(ie. an editor or staff member of a peer-reviewed journal
or a person sympathetic to ISAJE's aims).
10. An individual may repeat their request for
support in succeeding years: the fact that they have received
support in a previous year is no bar to further support being
offered in a subsequent year.
Applications
11. Applications shall be prospective not retrospective.
12. There is no formal application procedure
but the administrators are free to devise one if they wish.
13. Applications will be received in confidence
by the executive officer and will be disclosed only to the
scheme administrators.
Susan Savva
19 March 2007
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