Eligibility Criteria for Student Prizes and Subsidy

Please note that eligibility criteria for the student prizes differs from eligibility criteria for the student travel subsidy. Both are outlined below.

General Eligibility Criteria for all AMSA awards

Must be a financial student member of AMSA and can be enrolled either part time or full time.
The work presented has to have been done as the research project to fulfil the requirements of the award of a research degree (i.e. PGDiploma, Honours, Masters or PhD) and presented within 18 months of thesis submission.
Students must be identified and vouched for by the project supervisor(s).

Additional Criteria

Student Prizes at Annual Conference

Must have been a financial member of AMSA since the date of the close of abstracts for the conference at which the presentation is to be made.
A Student Prize Application form (pdf 80kb) must be submitted with your abstract, or no later than the commencement of the conference. This enables the committee to organise judges to be in the session in which you are presenting. Late applications therefore cannot be considered.
Note for 2010 conference: the relevant questions are to be answered on the registration form and the Application form is not necessary this year.

Please note: All students are eligible and, if no longer a student at the time of the conference, can be considered for prizes if presenting work done for their research degree if it was submitted within the eighteen months preceding the conference.

Travel Subsidy to Annual Conference

Each of the following criteria must be met:

applicant must be have been a fully paid student member of AMSA for the previous year as well as the year of the conference, with a joining date prior to 31st December of the year before the conference for which travel subsidy is to be applied.
the student must be making a contribution to the annual conference in the form of an oral or poster presentation.
a Student Travel Certification form (Word - 312kb) (pdf - 86kb) must be completed, including:
signature of the student's supervisor, and
advice of detail of travel funds provided by other sources toward travel to the conference, and
BSB and Account Number of account to which approved funds are to be transferred.
This form, together with the tax invoice from the airline or for travel, is to either be handed to AMSA Treasurer at the conference, or sent to AMSA's official address to arrive by 15th July.

Travel subsidy will then be paid within four (4) weeks of the conference. No applications received after 15 July will be accepted.

Allen Award ($2,500)

Be a graduate research student enrolled at an Australian University who has, by the application deadline, either:
. not yet submitted his/her thesis; or
. submitted his/her thesis no earlier than the calendar year preceding the deadline for applications.
Be presenting a paper or a poster on his/her own research at the international conference they propose to attend. Payment of the prize to the winner will be conditional on the paper/poster being accepted for presentation at the conference.
Be attending the international conference during the membership year (1 June - 31st May) following the closing date for applications.