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You will RSVP for your chosen event and apply for any bursaries at the same time, using the same form. 

In the form you will be asked to select which Regional you plan to attend and which bursaries you are applying for by checking the relevant boxes.

For the Attendance and Open bursaries you will be asked to provide a brief costing of what the money would be used for. For the non-costed Reparative Rest bursary, you will simply be asked to check a box confirming you self-identify as someone that qualifies for the fund. 

We recommend reading all the information on this page and gathering your estimated costs before you begin completing the form. We cannot guarantee the form will autosave any progress.

No. If you just want to confirm your choice of Regional, you can just use the form to do that. We will ask you for your access and dietary requirements before you submit.

The deadline for all bursary applications is Wed 17 September, 17:00.

Yes. You can apply for all three (Attendance, Open and Reparative Rest) for the Regional event you’re attending, if you need and want to. Note: The Attendance Bursary (for travel/accommodation) is not available for the Online Regional.

No. To simplify the selection process, we ask that you apply for all intended bursaries in a single form.

At this moment in time, no. Our first priority is ensuring everyone can attend the Regional event that is the most convenient for them. At a later date we may offer the option to attend the Online Regional as well as an in-person event, but this will be contingent on numbers. However, members of the same team (to a maximum of four people) do not have to all attend the same event, e.g. 2 people attend Norwich and 2 people attend Belfast.

We aim to invite everyone to the Regional event that works best for them and will do our best to make this happen. However, if an in-person Regional becomes oversubscribed, we may need to reallocate people to the Online Regional instead. 

We will ask in the application form whether you are happy for us to do this, should the need arise. Any Open or Reparative bursaries you have applied for will then be considered for this event instead. Attendance Bursaries do not apply for the Online event.

We can’t tell you whether you qualify, we can only provide you with the criteria which has guided our thinking. You might want to take a look at the Resourcing Racial Justice and reparative rest leave pages. Otherwise, we’re using the honour system and trusting that people will apply for the bursaries that suit them (as we are for all the bursaries).

Each team may nominate up to four attendees per event. Of those, up to two can receive an Attendance bursary for travel, accommodation, subsistence — across both Spring and Autumn Regionals. 

Please decide within your team who will apply. If one or two people apply, they’ll be awarded automatically (pending a basic cost check). If more than two applications per team are submitted for Autumn regionals, bursaries will be allocated by random selection after the deadline. If your team has already attended in Round 1 and used both Attendance bursaries, we may not be able to allocate any more bursaries. However, the Spring Regionals were not fully subscribed, so if the same happens again, we’ll do our best to accommodate all bursary requests. We encourage you to apply.

For the Open and Reparative Rest bursaries, recipients will be chosen through random selection after the bursary application date passes (pending basic sense-checking of estimated costs for the Open Bursary).

The Online Regional is designed for 80 people - approximately 2 people per institution. We want people to have the option to attend it if they can’t make an in person one. If the Online Regional is oversubscribed, we may run a second session in the afternoon, and may reallocate people across morning and afternoon sessions. Similarly, if in person Regionals are oversubscribed, we may reallocate some people to the Online regional.

All the bursary money is drawn from an overall pot of money that, if not used in one place, can be redistributed elsewhere across other bursaries. Where possible, we will endeavour to meet the community’s needs as much as we can.

Any unclaimed attendance bursary funds will be redistributed equally towards bursaries for the next round of events. Not claiming them this time will not affect the future availability of attendance bursaries for team members from your institution. The Studio Susegad/Wellcome Trust team may decide to reallocate funds within a single round to meet applicants’ needs if they deem it necessary. 

For transparency, at the close of each round of bursaries, we will compile the application and disbursement data and share this.

Once the bursaries from a round have been allocated and paid, we will delete your bank account details. Information you provide in estimation of costs such as caring costs, travel expenses or accommodation may be anonymised and aggregated, if you consent for us to do so. This anonymised data may be used to demonstrate need for further bursaries, or to provide insight into the hidden costs of participation in projects like this. For more information about how Studio Susegad processes your data, please see our Privacy Policy.

Studio Susegad is interested in how we might work to make research more inclusive; both across the research itself and the institutions, research cultures and environments that surround it. As part of this, we are piloting this series of bursaries to investigate what difference it might make to resource researchers properly.

We hope that with the qualitative and quantitative data we are able to gather, we will be able to assemble a story of what rest and resource can give to this research community, which in itself is differently resourced (as some teams are funded and some are not).

It is a prototype, so your participation and feedback is greatly appreciated.

If you need to amend anything after submitting, e.g. to add or remove bursary information, please email us at hello@irccsusegad.com.

No worries. Drop us a line at hello@irccsusegad.com and we’ll do our best to answer.