AVETRA CONFERENCE 2024 – SCHOLARSHIPS for Victorian Early Career Researchers

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The Victorian Skills Authority (VSA) and AVETRA are excited to announce a new initiative as part of our shared commitment to develop and support applied research capacity and capability in the VET sector.

Two VSA-AVETRA scholarships will be provided to Victorian early career VET researchers (or researchers who focus on VET as their subject matter, or practitioners seeking to transition to more research-focused roles) to attend the 2024 AVETRA Conference (to be held in Sydney on 3-4 October 2024).

Each scholarship package will include a financial component of $2,000 plus a ticket to the conference and in-kind contributions from AVETRA.

Details

Scholarship recipients will each receive $2,000 to cover travel and other costs associated with attending the conference. They will each also receive a ticket to AVETRA’s 2024 annual conference.

Through consultation between AVETRA and the scholarship recipients, additional opportunities for capability development may be created, such as:

• Dedicated one-on-one meeting time at the conference with a leading researcher, AVETRA member or conference speaker
• Opportunity to participate in a panel discussion at a future AVETRA conference
• Support in preparing an abstract for a future AVETRA conference
• The preparation of a short reflective piece on the conference for a future edition of the AVETRA magazine, Research Today. 
• Support in preparing an abstract for a future edition of Research Today.

Funds will be paid as an up-front lump sum and scholarship recipients will be responsible for making their own travel and accommodation bookings.

ELIGIBILITY

• Be a paid up AVETRA member
• Be an early career researcher or VET practitioner researcher, researching VET or VET-aligned issues
• Be an Australian citizen or have Australian work rights
• Live and work in Victoria

CONDITIONS

• Your key highlights / takeaways from the conference
• How attendance at the conference has / will shape your research practice
• How you have started to share your learnings from the conference with your peers / colleagues.

Your report may – by agreement – form the basis of a paper for AVETRA’s Research Today magazine.

APPLICATION PROCESS

• Evidence of meeting the eligibility criteria
• A reflective written piece covering:
  - Your research career / research trajectory to date
  - Evidence of research activity and dissemination
  - How your research / research practice would benefit from attending the conference
  - How you intend to disseminate what you learn at the conference to your peers and colleagues.

Applications open on Monday 5 August and will close on Friday 30th  August.

Applications will be judged by representatives of VSA and AVETRA, against the published criteria. No further correspondence will be entered into.

Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 6 September.

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