Bursaries
All applications now closed
The conference planning group have been successful in gaining funding to support bursaries and are very grateful for support from the following:
- Department of Health
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Care Council for Wales
- The Scottish Government
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council
- Scottish Voices
This guidance is for people who wish to apply for a conference bursary and who are either:
- service user educators,
- carer educators,
- service user researchers,
- carer researchers,
- students on qualifying social work courses, or
- post graduate research students.
Service user and carer educators/researchers
In recognition of the central role that service user and carer play in social work education and social work research, funding has been sought by the conference planning group to meet some of the conference fees and travel expenses for your participation.
We are introducing a new process for applying for and allocating bursaries, which is outlined below.
It is likely that not everyone that applies will receive a bursary.
You are strongly advised to seek funding from your own organisation, if appropriate, or the HEI social work course you work with.
If social work courses/ organisations are able to pay or contribute to the conference fee it will enable the sponsorship monies to support more bursaries. Decisions on who receives a bursary will be made by a panel drawn from the conference planning group which includes service user and carer educators/researchers.
No more than two people from any organisation or educational institution will be supported (including carers/helpers).
Priority will be given to people who;
- Have secured some matched funding
- Are involved with presenting or co-presenting a paper, workshop or symposium at the conference
Please note that JSWEC is unable to make any financial payment beyond the bursaries outlined below.
There are different arrangements for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as detailed below.
England and Scotland
Click here for the application form
Process for applicants linked to qualifying social work programmes in England and Scotland
We anticipate there being up to 10 bursaries available to support participation by service user and carer educators/researchers from England and 4 bursaries for Scotland. We would ask in the first instance that you look for support for the full conference fee, part of the fee and/or travel expenses from the social work course with whom you link.
Please complete the application form which needs to be completed by yourself and the Head of the course, or other HEI senior colleague, and send it by post to Bernie Newitt at the address below.
If you would rather email the application form please send it to your Head of course and ask them to endorse it, state the HEI contribution and forward it to Bernie Newitt at B.Newitt@soton.ac.uk.
SWAP
School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
Hampshire
SO17 1BJ
Wales
Process for applicants linked to qualifying social work programmes in Wales
The Care Council for Wales have kindly agreed to fund the full conference fee plus receipted travel costs of up to £150 for four service user/carer educators who work with social work courses as educators
The Care Council will be writing to the social work courses in Wales to invite nominations and they will be handling the process. Ian Thomas at the Care Council is the conference contact.
Northern Ireland
Process for applicants linked to qualifying social work programmes in Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) have kindly agreed to provide bursaries for:
- 1 service user/carer educator from the University of Ulster/Further Education Colleges and
- 1 service user/carer educator from Queen’s University Belfast
The NISCC will be seeking nominations in the near future.
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Students on qualifying social work courses
We welcome involvement from students on qualifying social work courses in the conference. Support may be available from the university course you are on. Please approach the appropriate person responsible for your course first before applying for funding from us. It may be possible to access funding from different sources for different types of costs for example, the conference fee may be met by the conference and the travel and other expenses paid for by the programme or vice versa.
If courses are able to pay or contribute to the conference fee it will enable the sponsorship monies to support more student participation. Decisions on who gets supported will be made by a panel drawn from the conference planning group which includes students.
We are introducing a new process for applying for and allocating bursaries, which is outlined below.
Priority will be given to students who;
- Have managed to secure some matched funding
- Are involved with presenting or co-presenting a paper, workshop or symposium at the conference
N.B. No more than two students will be supported from any one Social Work course.
There are different arrangements for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as detailed below.
England and Scotland - applications will be dealt with on a first come, first served basis.
Process for students linked to qualifying social work programmes in England and Scotland
Click here for the application form
We anticipate there being up to 10 bursaries available to support the participation of students from qualifying social work courses from England and 4 from Scotland. We would ask in the first instance that you look for support from the social work course you are on.
We have asked all students to write a short (250 word) explanation of why they should get a supported place. This will be used to help us make a final choice, in the event that we get more applications than we can support.
Please complete the application form which needs to be signed by yourself and the Head of your course and either send it by post to Bernie Newitt at the address below.
If you would rather email the application form please send it to the Head of your course and ask them to endorse it, state the HEI contribution and forward it to Bernie at her email address below.
SWAP
School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
Hampshire
SO17 1BJ
Or - Email: B.Newitt@soton.ac.uk
Wales
Process for students linked to qualifying social work programmes in Wales
The Care Council for Wales have kindly agreed to fund the full conference fee plus receipted travel costs of up to £150 for four students on social work qualifying programmes in Wales.
The Care Council will be writing to the social work programmes in Wales to invite nominations and they will be handling the process.
Northern Ireland
Process for applicants linked to qualifying social work programmes in Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) has kindly agreed to provide bursaries for:
- 1 student from the University of Ulster/Further Education Colleges and
- 1 student from Queen’s University Belfast
The NISCC will be seeking nominations in the near future.
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Postgraduate Research Students
We welcome involvement from social work postgraduate research students in the conference.
Many universities have a fund for supporting PGR student attendance at conferences and they should be your first port of call.
There is limited funding available for PGR students who are unable to obtain full funding from their university. There are different arrangements for each country please see below.
Please approach the appropriate person in your university first before applying for funding from the conference.
Priority will be given to PGR students who are:
- Involved with presenting or co-presenting a paper, workshop or symposium at the conference
- Not receiving a salary
- Not in receipt of an ESRC or University funding for their studies
Decisions on who gets supported will be made by a panel drawn from the conference planning group which includes student representitives.
There are different arrangements for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as detailed below.
England and Scotland - applications will be dealt with on a first come first served basis.
Process for Postgraduate Research applicants linked to universities in England and Scotland
Click here for the application form
We anticipate there being up to 4 bursaries available to support the participation of postgraduate research students from universities in England on a matched funding basis; and 2 bursaries available for PGR students studying in Scotland.
We have asked all students to write a short (250 word) explanation of why they should get a supported place. This will be used to help us make a final choice, in the event that we get more applications than we can support.
Please complete the application form which needs to be signed by yourself and your supervisor and either send it by post to Bernie Newitt at the address below.
If you would rather email the application form please send it to your supervisor and ask them to endorse it, state the HEI contribution and forward it to Bernie at her email address below.
SWAP
School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
Hampshire
SO17 1BJ
Or - Email: B.Newitt@soton.ac.uk
Wales
Process for Postgraduate Research applicants linked to qualifying social work programmes in Wales
The Care Council for Wales have kindly agreed to fund the full conference fee plus receipted travel costs of up to £150 for one postgraduate research student in Wales.
The Care Council will be writing to the relevant university in Wales to invite nominations and they will be handling the process.
Northern Ireland
Process for Postgraduate Research applicants linked to qualifying social work programmes in Northern Ireland
We are still pursuing financial support for postgraduate research student participation in the conference from Northern Ireland. If you are looking for financial support please contact your university in the first instance and ask them to let Bernie Newitt (B.Newitt@soton.ac.uk) know that there is a demand. We may be able to partly match funding. If this situation changes we will post an update on this website and also in the SWAP e-bulletin.