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Reward Scheme
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Support Scheme
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Self-funded Scheme
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Funding source
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Faculty budget
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Faculty Budget
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Staff budget (teaching / research account)
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Aim
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Enable productive researchers to attend conferences with the least administrative burden
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Train inexperienced researchers to benefit most from conference attendance and presentation in line with academic assessment criteria
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Enable every staff member to attend conferences with the least administrative burden
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Eligible
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Staff members with one or more journal-derived DEST point[1] per annum in a rolling average over the past 2 years[2]
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Staff members with less than one journal-derived DEST point per annum in a rolling average over the past 2 years
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All staff members
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Maximum amount per year
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$12,000
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$4,500
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No upper limit
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Number of conferences
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$4,500 per journal-derived DEST point
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No upper limit
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No upper limit
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Requirements for approval
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Basic details to satisfy insurance and eligibility as work related expense
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Follow-up refereed book chapter or journal publication, or networking proposal
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Basic details to satisfy insurance and eligibility as work related expense
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Requirements before the conference
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None
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Presentation in the School Research Seminar Series and publication of manuscript to the Discipline / School / Faculty Working Paper Series
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None
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Reporting requirements
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None
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Evidence of follow-up submission to refereed book chapter or journal, or networking report
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None
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Other requirements
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Submission of applications to external grant schemes that budget for funding of conference travel and use of this money for conferences if successful.
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None
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None
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Involved unit
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Faculty Research Division to administer
Head of Discipline / School to ensure that teaching is covered
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Faculty Research Division to administer
Head of Discipline / School to assure that teaching is covered and to receive the application and the report for career development purposes.
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Faculty Research Division to administer
Head of Discipline / School to ensure that teaching is covered
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Consequences for conference funding in the following year
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None
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If the last conference report is unsatisfactory, an FRC subcommittee consisting of the Heads of School will advise the Faculty Research Director and the Dean about conference funding discontinuation decisions.
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None
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