Travel expenses
Martin Fenner
Friday, 25 April 2008 18:42 UTC
For those of thus that can’t take the subway to go to the conference, we have to start thinking about travel expenses. I think I could get funding from my university if we made this an official conference with program and registration, etc.
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I’m in Aus – looking at 1200 quid probably.
Love to be there, but can’t afford it out of my own pocket.
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Can’t we get a big evil pharmaceutical company to sponsor us?
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I’ve been throwing around a few ideas for trying make up small amounts of money to help people without the freedom to use work travel budgets to travel to these types of meetings. But I don’t think any of them would raise more than a few hundred. And most of them involve setting up an external website which isn’t really appropriate here given the support Nature are giving already.
If its any help to anyone I am seriously looking at putting together a one day meeting on the following Monday at Southampton on ‘Open Science’. Anyone coming some distance could get two meetings for the price of one? But still both non-traditional so hard to convince the boss probably.
How about approaching Wellcome/EPSRC for support through a ‘communication of science’ strand? You know, pushing the young, energetic scientists exploiting new communication media button. I imagine with the wealth of experienced writers here putting a strong case together wouldn’t be too hard.
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Does this Wellcome programme fit? The deadline is this coming Friday though.
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Great suggestions already. Keep ‘em coming.
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I don’t know of many funders, but understand that most require that the person travelling give a paper or poster session presentation – so could the conf ensure that there’s plenty of possibilities for that?
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The recent poster discussion got me interested in the format. This might actually work nicely for a blogger meeting, with enough white space at the bottom of the poster for comments. Posters (essentially blog posts) could at the same time also be posted to the web. And those that can’t make it to London can at least write comments – or be present as a poster boy.
All this of course assumes that there is space for posters at the RI, which could be a big problem.
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By the by, like Martin I also need an official programme and announcement with registration (it can be for free) in order to even think about asking for travel cost reimbursement out of my research budget.
I’d like one of the “sessions” to be devoted to the slippery definition of publication of research results, in different scenarios. I have been wondering about this with (truly) Open Notebooks. If I put a photograph in my hard lab notebook and then use it in a figure published in a typical journal, no problem. However, if that photo has been seen widely, is that one still publishable? As in a comment I received from across the ocean, clearly if I want a (European) patent on those results, they are considered to be out there and therefore not patentable.
I’m also thinking for instance of user-submitted photos to company websites.
Just something to mull over.
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Hi everyone, we will be trying to secure some sponsorship money to help cover the travel costs of some of the speakers. No guarantees there though.
If you have ideas for places we can approach for funding, please email them to us at network@nature.com.
About ideas for sessions, please hold onto them for now. We will soon be posting a separate topic asking specifically for session/speaker ideas. So Heather, I’ll ask you to repost your idea to that thread. Just trying to keep things organized. We don’t want similar ideas scattered across different threads.
We’ll use those ideas to put together the agenda, which will then be announced here. Heather, Martin, will that be enough of an ‘official’ agenda/announcement for you to get reimbursed for this trip?
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Corie, an official invitation letter would be best to convince my university that this is indeed
some fun event in Londona professional activity. But beginning of August is early enough for that and it can also be sent by email.
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