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Laboratory Fellowship Grant

Are you a member of staff in a private, academic or government laboratory? Want to train in a new technique and add to your CPD points? Know somewhere you can go to get this training but don’t have the funds to get there? Why not apply for the SfAM Laboratory Fellowship? SfAM will pay a maximum of £1000 per week for a 1 to 4 week visit (to include staff travel, accommodation expenses and laboratory consumables). Contact the office for full details and an application form.

To apply for the Laboratory Fellowship Grant you can complete the online form below or download the application form:  Laboratory fellowship grant form

  1. Your home laboratory

  2. Host laboratory

  3. Details of your visit and costings

  4. Please note: in order to process your grant application we will need the signatures of; the Applicant, the Head of the home laboratory and the Head of the host laboratory in hard copy,  to be recieved by post or fax or scanned and emailed to the Society office.

  5. In submitting this application you agree to abide by all the terms and conditions as specified.

Terms and Conditions

1. Applications should be made through completion and submission of the SfAM application form. The deadlines for applications are 1 March and 1 June.

2. The SfAM Awards Panel will be responsible for making the decision on allocation of awards.

3. Normally, recipients of the awards, or their employer will be members of SfAM and have made two subscription payments.

4. Recipients of the awards are expected to provide a report on their Fellowship e.g. through an article in the Microbiologist or by an oral or poster presentation at a SfAM conference.

5. SfAM is not responsible for any injury or ill effect suffered by the applicant during the course of the visit. It is the applicants responsibility to ensure that he/she is covered by the relevant personal insurance policies of the host laboratory.

6. Normally, recipients of the awards are not postgraduate students, but in exceptional circumstances such applications may be considered.