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NW Travel Bursary
North West Travel Bursary 2026
BFWG North West offers a bursary by competition of £500 to enable a woman postgraduate student studying at an institution in the North West of England or North Wales to attend a conference relevant to her studies or research in 2026 and free introductory membership of BFWG for a year.
Applications for 2027 NW Travel Bursary opening soon.
Application Instructions
- Applicants must be a woman postgraduate studying at an institution of higher education in North West England or North Wales and resident in the UK in autumn 2027.
- Applicants must apply per guidance below on an A4 document, sent as an email attachment to Carrie de Silva to be received by 8th January 2027. This is an absolute deadline.
- Applicants will be informed of the result by mid February 2027 at the latest.
- The winner will be invited to speak about her studies and why she wanted to go to the conference at an Academic Presentation Day in October 2027.
- Runners up will be invited to the Academic Presentation Day to compete for a small, additional prize with certificates of attendance given to any students who attend the Presentation Day, whether competing or not.
Application guidance:
- Give your name, address, telephone number and email
- State your institution of Higher Education, and school/department.
- Provide the title, date, venue and organiser of the conference it is hoped to attend.
- State whether a paper or poster is to be presented to the conference or
- Give a description and level of previous degree(s).
- Describe financial help from other sources, although this does not affect the
- State whether a BFWG North West Travel Bursary has previously been applied for.
- Give a title of the research so that the topic is
- Give summary of the research of 150 words maximum.
- Provide an extended explanation of the research and its validity to include the importance of the conference it is hoped to attend, suitable for an intelligent but not necessarily subject specialist reader, 1,000 words max.
- The application must include written support signed by your head of department or your main supervisor. Send it as an attachment clearly showing university letterheading or university email address.
- State willingness to speak to the 2027 Academic Presentation Day about the research and
- Overall presentation will be considered in the assessment.
Contact: carrie@carriedesilva.co.uk Professor Carrie de Silva, BFWG North West Travel Bursary administration.
North West Travel Bursary 2026 – Academic Presentation Day
Saturday 10th October 2026
For more information contact Carrie de Silva or Evelyn Campbell-Smith, Liverpool LA
PRESENTERS
Malak Alsharif, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Topic (Medical Education) : Near-peer teaching as a quality improvement strategy in medical education during conflict, using the case study of Gaza.
Shumeli Das, University of Liverpool
Topic (Socioeconomics): The genendered juggle of grand-parenthood: labour market within couples.
Laura Granda Mateu, University of Edge Hill
Topic (History): The obscured contributions of women in the Noth West of England to the arts and heritage during the long nineteenth century. Case studies include Adelaide Welt of Speke Hall.
Kshitija Mruthyunjaya, University of Manchester
Topic (Environmental): The hidden landfills of architectural whiteness: TiO2 waste in Kerals, India – a cross-disciplinary project spanning architecture and history
North West Travel Bursary 2025 – Academic Presentation Day
The short-listed presenters pictured with BFWG's Carrie de Silva (second from the right):
From L to R: Paris Lee (Liverpool), Ruth Hyndman (Lancashire), Faye Lynch (Liverpool), Catherine Pennington (Sheffield) - winner of the best presentation on the day, BFWG's Carrie de Silva and, on the far right, the overall winner, Lois Nash (Bangor).