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.
Round 1 bursaries applications closed on Wednesday 2 April at 5PM. Thank you to everyone who applied.
This First Round offers bursaries for Regionals 1 + 2 (Bristol and Edinburgh) and the Online Regional. The Second Round for future events will come in May 2025.
There are three types of bursary: 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.
Please note that for the Midway event, which is organised by Wellcome, we are offering only Reparative Rest bursaries.
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*
*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.
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 will likely be no allocation remaining for the Round 2 events.
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.
This money is drawn from an overall pot of money that, if not used, may be redistributed elsewhere across other bursaries.
Reparative Rest Bursary
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 in Resourcing Racial Justice and reparative rest leave.
When an attendee with a lived experience of inequality participates in or administers research, or attends a related event, they might have to balance:
representing their lived experience to a group
emotions related to their personal experiences of inequality
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 your 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
(copy informed by Watershed’s Reparative Rest Leave)
FAQs
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Please contact hello@irccsusegad.com if you need this information in another format such as audio or Easy Read.
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For Round 1 (Regionals 1 + 2 and Online), 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.
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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.
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The deadline for all bursary applications is Wed 19 March, 17:00.
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Yes. See an export of the application form here.
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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.
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No. To simplify the selection process, we ask that you apply for all intended bursaries in a single form.
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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 Bristol and 2 people attend Edinburgh.
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Four members of each team can join in person and another four can join online. Wellcome will cover travel costs directly.
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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.
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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).
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For the Attendance bursary, you (the team) decide which four people will attend the event. Once this has been decided, any of the attendees can apply for money to cover travel/accommodation/subsistence costs, if needed. Per team, we have two bursaries available. We encourage you to decide amongst yourselves who will apply for the bursaries.
If more than two people apply for attendance bursaries from an institution, we will use random selection to allocate the bursaries after the application date passes. If one or two people apply, they will automatically be allocated the bursary, pending some basic sense-checking of the estimated costs.
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 will likely be no allocation remaining for the Round 2 events.
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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you need to amend anything after submitting, e.g. to add or remove bursary information, please email us at hello@irccsusegad.com.
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No worries. Drop us a line at hello@irccsusegad.com and we’ll do our best to answer.
