The UK Surface Analysis Forum (UKSAF) is pleased to announce a number of student travel awards. Each award will provide a contribution towards the expenses of a student presenting their work at an international conference. Awards of £500 are available for international conferences in the UK or EU and £1000 for other locations.
UKSAF have allocated £2000 for travel awards and, in the case that applications exceed this allocation, awards will be made to those applications deemed by the UKSAF committee to have the most relevance to surface analysis, the highest quality of contribution and the most prestigious conference. Winners of the UKSAF travel awards are invited to present their work at a future UKSAF meeting.
Eligibility
Applicants must currently be a registered student (full or part-time), and be a member of UKSAF - i.e. have attended at least one UKSAF Meeting within the last three years. The applicant must also have had an abstract accepted for presentation (oral or poster) at the conference, and this work must include the use of surface analysis techniques. If the student is currently studying at a university outside the UK or Ireland, the work to be presented must have been carried out in, and have a co-author from, a British or Irish university or company.
Apply
To apply, please send details (name and abstract) including proof of abstract acceptance, or details of the decision date, to alex.shard@npl.co.uk. Please ensure that the subject line of the email is ‘UKSAF travel award application'
It is appreciated that conferences area spread through the year and abstract acceptance is therefore scattered. Consequently, this year there are two deadlines for travel awards:
The first deadline for applications is: 30 April 2024
The second deadline for applications is: 7 August 2024
Past Award Winners
| Year | Award Winner | Institution | Conference | Presentation Download |
| 2019 | Akmal Bin Sabry | Nottingham University | SIMS-22 (Kyoto, Japan) | |
| 2019 | Clare Newell | NPL | SIMS-22 (Kyoto, Japan) | |
| 2018 | Christopher Jones | Manchester University | NUMAT (Seattle, USA) | |
| 2018 | Rebeca Lopez Adams | Manchester University | VIII NanoSIMS Users Meeting (Bremen, Germany) | |
| 2018 | Jatin Mistry | Nottingham University | SIMS Europe (Münster, Germany) | |
| 2017 | Gustavo F. Trindade | University of Surrey | ECASIA '17 (Montpelier, France) |  |
| 2017 | Stacy Moore | University of Bristol | EUROCORR 2017 (Prague, Czech Republic) | |
| 2016 | Taraneh Bozorgzad Moghim | University of Surrey | AVS (Nashville, USA) | |
| 2016 | Jorge Banuls Ciscar | University of Surrey | AVS (Nashville, USA) | |
| 2015 | Gustavo Ferraz Trindade | University of Surrey | ECASIA' 15 (Spain) | |
| 2015 | Christopher Mallinson | University of Surrey | ECASIA' 15 (Spain) | |
| 2015 | Sabrina Tardio | University of Surrey | AVS (USA) | |
| 2014 | Anna Fricker | Imperial College London | AVS (Baltimore, USA) | |
| 2014 | Sabrina Tardio | University of Surrey | WCARP (Japan) | |
| 2013 | Christopher Mallinson | University of Surrey | ECASIA '13 (Sardinia) | |
| 2013 | Liuquan Yang | University of Leeds | Trybo-Lyon (France) and 5th World Tribology Congress (Italy) |
