Allied health professionals educational travel awards
Travel awards are offered to allied health professionals who are, or are eligible to be, registered with the Health Professions Council (HPC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or other appropriate regulatory body and have at least 3 years' relevant post-registration work experience and at least one year's experience in rheumatology/arthritis.
Up to a maximum of £500 is offered towards the costs of attending a national or international meeting in order to present a paper or poster, chair a session or lead a discussion, provided the meeting has a clear relevance to the aims and interests of arc.
OR
Up to a maximum of £2,000 is offered to enable allied health professionals to visit wards/units in their specialty for the purpose of studying other methods of care of patients with arthritis and related musculoskeletal diseases.
Please see the Educational grants section to ensure you meet the eligibility criteria, or contact the Research and Education Department (01246 541115) for further information.
Application deadlines are 3 times a year (April, July & September).
Application Form - Instructions
(before completing the form, applicants must read the instructions in Essential information for applicants)
The application form is in four sections which must be submitted electronically as instructed below. We also require a number of hard copies to be posted to us and these must be identical to the electronic version.
Section 1
This section requires a description of the meeting/visit and financial costings. You should ensure that you have downloaded the correct form for the grant category for which you require funding.
Section 2
This section requires details of pesonal qualifications and reason for the proposed travel.
Section 3
CV form – this section applies to all grant categories and must be completed for each person named on the application, excluding Collaborators (with the exception of PhD Studentships).
NB:
Please ensure that each completed CV form is saved as a SEPARATE document, ie SURNAME 1, SURNAME 2, SURNAME 3 etc.
Section 4
Signature pages and contact details – this section applies to all grant categories.
Please name each section as SEC1, SEC2 and SEC4 (apart from Section 3 - see Note 2). WE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY DOCUMENT FORMAT OTHER THAN WORD.
Also ensure that you adhere to the page layout when completing the form and insert information into the relevant boxes where a table template has been provided. To view template, select “show gridlines” in Word Table menu.
Emailing Your Application
You are requested to EMAIL the completed form, (Sections 1, 2 and 3 but not 4) to applications@arc.org.uk by midnight on the deadline date, at least 2 months before the planned meeting or visit. If an application is received outside this time frame, it will not be processed as we do not award retrospective funding.
Please ensure that ALL attachments are sent electronically, eg copy of abstract and letter of acceptance of abstract from meeting organiser.
Posting Your Application
You should also send us the original single-sided application form unstapled (in single spaced typescript, font type Arial 11 pt), including Section 4 containing the relevant signatures.
All four sections should be collated to make a complete application form and photocopied (4 copies, double-sided). Each photocopied form must be securely stapled in the left-hand corner and not heat-sealed or bound. Please post to:
Head of Research & Education Funding
ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CAMPAIGN
Copeman House
St Mary's Court
Chesterfield
S41 7TD
All attachments should also be duplicated (double-sided) and securely stapled to the back of each copy of the application form. We regret that we are unable to duplicate or insert additional information if this has been missed out.
Please ensure you have completed all four sections of the form, and that all documents relating to your application are attached to the form (see “Attachments to Application Form” on Signature Page 1 of SECTION 4).
If you have any queries, please contact the Research and Education Department on 01246 541115.
