PDF Travel Awards

This award is open to all Faculties and Units from UBC Vancouver (excluding all Departments/Units contained within the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Medicine).

PDFs from the Faculty of Medicine must apply directly to the Faculty of Medicine. View Faculty of Medicine guidelines, procedures and deadlines.

PDFs from the Faculty of Science must apply directly to the Faculty of Science. View Faculty of Science guidelines, procedures and deadlines.

Eligibility:

In order to qualify for a PDF Travel Award, the following criteria must be met:

• The applicant must be accepted to present an oral presentation or poster at a conference and must be the 1st author of the accepted abstract
• No previous UBC PDF Travel Awards have been received by the applicant
• The research work being presented is work that has been conducted during the applicant’s postdoc tenure at UBC
• If presenting work that is very close to one's dissertation topic, one must be presenting original and new data obtained during their postdoc tenure at UBC.
• The applicant must be currently appointed through UBC Vancouver at the time of application and at the time of travel

Applicants must agree to submit a 200-word report of the activity to the PDFO via email within 3 weeks of their return, granting the PDFO permission to post this report on its website.

Maximum Award Value:

Travel support will be provided up to a maximum of $500 per recipient for domestic travel within North America or up to a maximum of $1000 per recipient for International travel.

Allowable Costs:

• Travel costs
• Accommodation expenses
• Meal expenses
• Conference registration fees

For information about per diem rates and other eligible travel expenses, please see UBC Policy #83 – Travel and Related Expenses.