Hi,
This might seems a but off from regular academic questions, but I recently got approved as a poster presenter by ASM Microbe. But the travel cost is quite high even with university grants. I have applied for all possible grant in the university too but they only cover partially. I am also an international student so its even harder to apply for external grants. Which is why I came to go fund me. I have been sharing it around but I am afraid that I might not get enough for the conference. Do you guys have any advice on apply for travel grants for international student? Or anywhere that I can share my fundraising?
Thank you for any advice!
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Ask your supervisor if he is willing to cough up the rest. We normally have a bit of funding to cover travel
Being in the UK I’m always amazed by these sort of things. Our students have a travel fund baked into their studentship and if they’ve spent all of that, I’d find travel budgets from another grant. Travel costs are peanuts compared to how much staff time and overheads cost for the rest of the lab. Students are amazing “value” in that regard so supporting them with travel costs as needed is a no-brainier.