The Department is now accepting applications for the Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson Graduate Student Conference Award. This award, which was instituted in 2018, is described on the department website at https://linguistics.ubc.ca/grad/eric-vatikiotis-bateson-graduate-student-conference-award/ (though some of the information there has yet to be updated as it pertains to the June 1, 2018 application deadline).
As stated on that webpage, the goal of this travel award is to support student visibility for employment opportunities, and the requirements and restrictions reflect this goal. To be eligible for this award, students must be advanced to Ph.D. candidacy and have had a paper/poster either submitted or accepted to a conference or workshop at the time of application.
There are supposed to be three application deadlines per year, each for travel during a particular 4-month window:
- February 1 (for travel departing April 1 to July 31)
- June 1 (for travel departing August 1 to November 30)
- October 1 (for travel departing December 1 to March 31)
Accordingly, there ought to have been a general announcement about the October 1 deadline sent around early last term – and another for the February 1 deadline a while ago – but I’m afraid I completely dropped the ball on that! Therefore, we are going to be accepting applications until February 20 for expenses relating to trips with departure dates that fall/fell in the period December 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019. (That is, it is possible to apply for an award to cover travel that already happened in December or January.)
Applications should be submitted via this on-line form (also linked from the webpage above):
https://ling.air.arts.ubc.ca/eric-vatkiotis-bateson-graduate-student-conference-award-application/
Please note that each application must to be accompanied by a letter of support from the student’s supervisor. This can either be uploaded via the on-line application form or emailed directly to ling.admin@ubc.ca by the application deadline.