ANZSPED GRANTS AND AWARDS
This page is for ANZSPED members only.
To apply for either of the below, you must submit an abstract. Refer to the 'Call for Abstracts' tab.
SCIENTIFIC MEETING ATTENDANCE GRANT (smag)
Essential criteria
- Successful submission of an abstract:
- to apply for a grant, please indicate so during the online abstract submission process. You must also declare any other requests for funding you have received or applied for.
- Financial ANZSPED member for at least 3 months at the time of application.
- Applicant working with children and adolescents with diabetes or endocrine conditions:
- A RACP Endocrine advanced trainee
- Registered nurse, allied health professional or scientist
- Your head of department will be contacted to check your eligibility for the grant.
Specific criteria/FAQ
- Grants are not open to those persons who are only attending the Fellows’ Meeting and it is required that recipients of a grant will register and attend for the full ASM.
- An allotment of money is put aside each year for conference attendance grants. This is then shared amongst those who apply and fulfil the criteria. Therefore, there are no funds available for late applications. The SMAG are calculated based on the location of the ASM and distance of travel required to attend the meeting.
Costs considered are discounted economy airfares (if required); early bird registration and shared accommodation. Grants are not designed to cover these costs in full, but to contribute to the cost of attendance.
An ANZSPED representative will be in contact closer to the conference date to confirm if your request was approved and to advise of the value of the grant awarded.
ANZSPED EMERGING INVESTIGATOR AWARD
This award is presented at the Scientific Meeting to the best scientific presentation by an ANZSPED member at the dedicated "Emerging Investigators" session.
Essential criteria
- Candidate is within 5 years (or equivalent full time*) of completing specialist qualifications or higher degrees (e.g.: FRACP, PhD, MD etc, whichever is earliest).
- There is a limit of one presentation per candidate.
- Previous recipients of the award are not eligible.
*Justification of the equivalent full time period may be requested at the time of submission of the abstract, to allow reviewers to determine whether an application is eligible for this category of presentation.
Assessment (including information provided on the submission form):
The award is made on the advice of a judging committee, which consists of at least 3 members appointed by ANZSPED Council. The following criteria will be assessed:
- Abstract
- Study design (including literature review)
- Ethics submission
- Data collection: percentage of data entry and cleaning undertaken, creation of a new database, or new fields in an existing database
- Recruitment
- Intervention: development/validation/delivery
- Statistical analysis
- Interpretation of findings
- Contribution of the EI to the research being presented
- Presentation quality
The submission form (word document) is available HERE. This form should be countersigned by the applicant’s study supervisor and/ or Head of Department and submitted within 4 days of the close of abstract submission.
Specific criteria/FAQ
- ANZSPED members with established research track records, as evidenced by high impact publications and/or success in post-doctoral research grant funding in Paediatric Endocrinology would not normally be considered appropriate candidates for this award.
- When an image or graph of another’s work is included, this should be acknowledged in the abstract submission and presentation.
- ANZSPED Council reserves the right to make the final decision re the suitability of any applicant for this award.
