Student or early career professional conference bursaries

UKeiG is offering five discretionary bursaries of £250 to support current library and information students or early-career professionals to attend a relevant conference. (This bursary may not cover all the costs of attendance.)

Details: UKeiG offers bursaries to two categories of applicant:

• UK undergraduate and postgraduate students in UK schools or departments of librarianship, information studies, information science, knowledge management or information management running courses accredited by CILIP
• UK early-career professionals

Each bursary is offered to enable a student or early-career professional to attend a conference relevant to their professional studies or career (for example, LILAC or Internet Librarian International. The CILIP Conference bursary is not included in the criteria.)

Process: Applications are accepted throughout the year on a first come first served basis but will be dependent on the submission of a high-quality application. Successful applicants will be expected to write a conference report for UKeiG’s online journal eLucidate. We would normally expect this by the copy date following the conference.

Nominations should take the form of a letter detailing the justification for, and benefits to be gained from, attending the conference, as well as details of the conference, including date and place, and the costs to be incurred. Additionally, you should provide a letter of support from your higher education institution or employer as proof of your status as a full-time student/early-career professional. If you are presenting a paper at the conference, a copy of your abstract would help your submission.

For information and advice please email: info.ukeig@cilip.org.uk.

CILIP Conference bursaries

Are you an aspiring or emerging leader in the library, information and knowledge profession keen to develop your career and empower yourself to take your next step into leadership?

Have you never attended a CILIP Conference before and couldn’t ordinarily afford to go?

The UKeiG Management Committee sponsor two full bursary places (including travel and one night’s hotel accommodation) to the annual CILIP Conference,  the UK’s leading event for the library, information and knowledge community.

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.

Bursary Criteria
Bursaries are offered to CILIP members who fall into at least one of the below categories:

Ø  Students

Ø  Those new to the profession (having joined the profession in the last 5 years)

Ø  With earnings below £23,000 per annum

Ø  Or who are unwaged.

Successful bursary recipients are expected to produce a written report of their experiences of and learning outcomes from the event. It may be published in UKeiG’s open access journal eLucidate and will be shared with the CILIP team to publish in print and/or online. You will also be expected to actively document your time at the conference on social media to support colleagues who are unable to attend.