Otago Travel Award

These awards were established by the committee of the then NZFGW (Otago Branch) as a 1990 commemorative project to enable women to present original work at national and international conferences. Preference will be given to recent postgraduate or post-doctoral women establishing a career in a new field, who may not have access to other sources of funding, and/or who have a personal income level insufficient to support such travel. Each award is a maximum of $3,000. Closing date for applications are 15 March, 15 June, and 15 September. Notification may take up to eight weeks after closing date. Applicants must be fully paid-up financial members of GWO for at least six months immediately prior to the application date. The award is available only to residents of Otago and Southland. Successful applicants may not apply for a subsequent GWO Travel Award. Recipients of an Otago Daphne Purves Award for of a GWO or Graduate Women New Zealand or Graduate Women International award with a value greater than NZ$1,000 will not be eligible to apply for a GWO Travel Award for at least four years after accepting the previous award. Applicants must apply on the prescribed application form (currently dated July 2023) to which no changes may be made in length. If additional material is appended to the application, it must not exceed, in length or content, the limits set in the Guidelines for making a GWO Travel Award application (currently dated July 2023). If these requirements are disregarded the application will be considered invalid. Awards cannot be granted retrospectively. No awards will be made if there are no suitable applicants. 3 July 2023 Awards will not be paid out until the following evidence of planned conference attendance and participation have been received by the committee: a copy of travel tickets and a copy of the organisers’ acceptance of a poster, a paper, or another presentation. Travel award recipients are required to submit a 200-300 word report within a month of their return from the conference. Awards are made by the GWO Committee on recommendations received from this Award’s Selection Panel. GWO Committee decisions are final. If further correspondence and/or communications are received, they will be circulated to all members of the Selection Panel and the relevant subcommittees of GWO and brought to the attention of the GWO Committee