IRCC Bursaries

Studio Susegad, funded by Wellcome, are offering a series of bursaries to support you to attend IRCC Regional events, as part of our research into what reparations for rest might look like within institutional frameworks.

As part of our Radical Care + Finance Pilot, we have offered 73 bursaries to 49 individuals from across 21 institutions across three rounds. Thank you to everyone who applied.

Applications for Round 4 are now open and available to registered participants for the March 2026 event at London HQ.

There are three types of bursary in this Pilot scheme: Attendance Bursaries, Open Bursaries and Reparative Rest Bursaries. You can read more about the specifics of each bursary below.

The bursaries are funded by the Wellcome Trust. You may apply for as many bursaries as you need to. You don’t have to apply for a bursary. You can find more information about the bursaries, and the application and selection process below.

The Bursaries

Attendance

How many bursaries per event?*

How much per bursary?

Information needed to apply

2 per institution

Up to £150

Name 
Institution
Costs estimation in advance
Bank details**

Open

4 total per regional event

Up to £150

Name 
Institution
Costs estimation in advance
Bank details**

Reparative Rest

6 total per regional event

£150

Name 
Institution
Confirmation of criteria self-ID
Bank details**

*These were our Summer 2024 ideas about how we might allocate and budget for bursaries across the course of this programme. In practice, we have been responding to community needs and so far we have funded 40 bursaries across 30 individuals including 26 Rest bursaries, 9 Attendance bursaries, and 5 Open bursaries. We will continue to offer support in the most relevant ways to the community.

**We will only ask for your Name, Sort Code, and Account Number - this is so that we can pay you the money you’re applying for. We will never ask for sensitive confidential bank information that allows for money to be collected from you. As soon as all payments have been made within a round, we will delete all bank details.

Attendance Bursary

Up to four people from your institution can attend a regional event. We can provide bursaries towards the costs of two people (across all regional events). 

Per institution, the Attendance Bursary provides up to two bursaries of up to £150 for costs covering travel and accommodation. Up to £20 of this money can be used for subsistence (e.g. food and drink) costs.

This pot is to support attendance from people from your institution who might not otherwise be able to. We strongly encourage your team to select a diverse cross-section of individuals to attend for each event, for example, considering a range of roles and levels of seniority and diverse intersectional identities/demographics. We also encourage you to discuss as a team who will apply for bursaries.

If your team is planning to attend Regionals in different rounds, such as Edinburgh and Norwich, we strongly encourage you to decide amongst yourselves, in advance, who will apply for the Attendance Bursaries. If both are used up in Round 1, there might not be any allocation remaining for the Round 2 events, but we encourage you to apply.

This money is drawn from an overall pot of money that, if not used, may be redistributed elsewhere across other bursaries.

Open Bursary

This pot is to support you to attend on behalf of your institution if you might not otherwise be able to. 

It provides up to £150 towards necessary costs that might not be covered under the umbrella of “travel and subsistence”, such as caring costs e.g. a childminder and baby sitter.

This is an ‘Open’ bursary pot meaning we are open to hearing what would help you to attend that isn’t covered by the other types of bursaries. It is intentionally open and we invite your ideas and requests. It is our hope that this bursary pot can be a mechanism for us to more deeply understand what other support would be beneficial to you.

This money is drawn from an overall pot of money that, if not used, may be redistributed elsewhere across other bursaries.

This pot is offered in acknowledgement that due to structural inequality not everyone experiences work in the same way. It is grown from Studio Susegad’s action research into rest as resistance through projects like Sweet Rest, Resourcing Racial Justice and Reparative Rest Leave. 

This pot is offered in acknowledgement that due to structural inequality not everyone experiences Research Culture work in the same way. When an attendee with a lived experience of discrimination participates in or administers research, or attends a related event, they might have to:

  • represent their lived experience to a group

  • manage the emotional impact of their personal experiences of inequality

  • face a lack of understanding from other participants

Attendees with lived experience of inequality may also face exclusionary behaviours elsewhere—in their work or in their personal life—that their peers do not.

This pot therefore offers bursaries of £150 towards time for reparative rest.

There is no requirement to cost out or ‘prove’ need. We invite you to self-identify if you think that this bursary applies to you – for example because of (and not limited to) race, gender expression or disability.

Examples of reasons you might self-identify include:

  • You are working on a project where the themes being explored intersect with your lived experience.

  • You experience exclusionary behaviours at work from colleagues, supervisors or project participants based on your lived experience.

  • Events in the wider world are mentally, physically or emotionally traumatising because of your lived experience.

We acknowledge that this offer may not be taken up by some people who are eligible because of the way marginalisation and exclusion operates and is internalised, and this is something we are trying to mitigate in our communications and address head on in our invitations to you. 

We are open to conversations and feedback about how to improve this and other aspects of the bursary offer and have already had some fruitful one on one conversations with IRCC members. Please do talk to us at hello@irccsusegad.com.

Reparative Rest Bursary

(copy informed by Watershed’s Reparative Rest Leave)

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