IRSPM is committed to offering a limited number of sponsored places at our annual conference to enhance the ability of people who are either currently working at institutions in or are coming from developing countries & underrepresented regions to be able to attend. IRSPM will cover the conference registration fee in full for successful recipients, though recipients will be responsible for their own subsistence, travel and accommodation in relation to the conference.
These sponsored places are only available to conference participants who have already had an abstract accepted for one of the conference panels. This is a necessary condition.
Beyond this necessary condition, applications will be considered by a small committee, chaired by the IRSPM conference coordinator.
If you are currently working at an institution in a developing & underrepresented country or if you are a researcher from a developing & underrepresented country working elsewhere and would like to apply for this scheme, please send an e-mail to Prof Joris Voets Joris.Voets@UGent.be by January 15, 2019, 24:00 Central European Time.
The e-mail should briefly address each of the 3 criteria below. Decisions will be made and communicated to applicants by February 10 2020.
This IRSPM-committee will weigh all applications against 3 criteria before deciding upon offers of sponsored places. These criteria are:
- That the applicant’s current (= at the time of applying) institutional affiliation is in a developing country that is under-represented at the conference or that the applicant is from such a region working elsewhere and why this support would be needed,
- That the applicant’s participation addresses a regional imbalance in the participants at the conference, and
- That the paper is one that addresses an important topic for the conference (e.g. a key topic of significance for public management theory or one that is novel or under-researched, or a novel or innovative methodological approach).
The committee will balance these criteria in their deliberations and will act as a decision-making forum in its own right. The decisions of this committee will be final.
Sincerely,
Prof Jenny M Lewis
IRSPM President