UKeiG (the UK e-information Group) is committed to encouraging and championing excellence and innovation across the profession. The Group sponsors prestigious awards and supports the continuing professional development of library and information students and early career professionals with a range of bursaries to encourage research, information exchange and best practice.

Are you an aspiring information professional struggling under the weight of the cost-of-living crisis but keen to pursue professional development activities?

UKeiG is delighted to announce that we are sponsoring two full bursary places (including travel and one night’s hotel accommodation) at CILIP’s 2023 Conference - the UK’s leading event for the library, information and knowledge community - in Birmingham on the 12^th and 13^th of July. This generous bursary offer will provide CILIP members - unwaged, studying, new to the profession or without the financial means to attend – with an exciting career development and networking opportunity.

The CILIP Conference 2023 programme is designed to upskill, connect and develop established, emerging and aspiring leaders. UKeiG hopes that attendance will encourage an aspiring or emerging leader in the profession, empowering them to take their next career steps. We are particularly interested in hearing from people who have never been to the CILIP Conference before, and who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to go.

Bursary Criteria

These two bursaries will be offered to CILIP members who are also members of UKeiG and who fall into at least one of the following categories:

Ø  Unwaged

Ø  Students

Ø  Early career professionals (having joined the profession in the last 1-5 years)

Successful bursary recipients will be expected to produce a written report (circa 1,200 words) of their experiences of and learning outcomes from the event. It will be published in UKeiG’s journal eLucidate and shared with the CILIP team. The deadline for receipt of reports is 14^th August 2023. You will also be expected to actively document your time at the conference on social media.

To Apply

Please email:

Richard Bridgen – Hon. Secretary UKeiG secretary.ukeig@cilip.org.uk

copied to:

Gary Horrocks - UKeiG administrator info.ukeig@cilip.org.uk

and

Sue Silcocks – Hon. Treasurer UKeiG treasurer.ukeig@cilip.org.uk

with a succinct statement of no more one side of A4 outlining your interest in attending Conference 2023 and how this bursary place will support your professional

development.

Please also confirm the following information:

Ø  First name

Ø  Surname

Ø  Email

Ø  Phone 

Ø  CILIP membership number

Ø  Role/job title or unwaged/student status.

Please confirm that you fulfil the bursary criteria and are currently without the financial means to attend Conference 2023.

Applications must be received by 6 pm on Friday 5^th May 2023.