Postgraduate Travel Grants

Postgraduate travel grants assist students who wish to attend conferences in order to present a paper or poster on their current research.

Students undertaking postgraduate research programs at Monash are strongly encouraged to present their research findings at national and international conferences. This allows them to expose their work to peer review and to develop networks that will be important in their subsequent research careers.

Postgraduate travel grants are also available for students:

to undertake field trips, surveys, data collection or interviews;
to learn new techniques;
to pursue research in specialist archive collections; or
to utilise specialist equipment not available at Monash

This interaction with researchers of international reputes enriches and broadens a student's research experience, while also stimulating collaborative research links between Monash and other tertiary and research institutions.

Monash Access Equity Postgraduate Research Travel Grant

As part of its equity program, Monash University has made available up to 20 special travel grants for 2008, each up to a value of $3000 (depending upon destination and associated costs) for travel within Australia and overseas. Only Australian citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply for these grants. See application kit below for further details.

Related forms and documents

Travel Grants and Equity Travel Grants application kit: procedures, form, eligibility and conditions of award. (rtf 707kb, pdf 207kb)
Travel Grant report form (rtf 233kb, pdf 34kb )

Attend an International Conference with an Equity Travel Grant

The international conference held at the University of Calcutta on Globalisation and Postcolonial Writing – an Australia India Exchange was ideal for Suboohi, a PhD candidate at Clayton to attend. Her research investigates the influence of Franz Kafka on the works of Urdu writers. Her paper had been accepted and in Kolkata she could present her work with minimal introduction. This was a great opportunity, but associated expenses - airfare, taxes, accommodation and conference registration – would make it difficult to attend. On student incomes, Suboohi and her husband were supporting a small child and their budget at that time could not stretch to international travel.

Suboohi applied for and was granted a Monash Access Equity Travel Grant

The conference was a great success. Suboohi was able to present her ideas not only to academics but also to journalists, dancers and film directors, making a number of useful contacts and being inspired by the people she met there.

Equity Travel Grants cover airfares and other expenses up to $3000 and are available in 2008 to postgraduate research students who are disadvantaged either socio-economically, with a difficult long-term medical condition, or by long-term domestic circumstances, eg carers who were unable to travel previously.

Application forms are within the standard postgraduate research travel grant form and can be downloaded from this website.