THE MAURICE & PHYLLIS PAYKEL TRUST
These grants-in-aid are provided for assistance with the costs of travel by research workers in health-related fields. They may be used for travel to scientific meetings, visits to research institutions or participation in short-term laboratory work / training of relevance to an applicant's research in New Zealand.
NEWS
The mid-year granting round is now well under way and members of the Scientific Committee are busily reading all applications submitted by the 1 June 2010 closing date. This round considers only applications in the categories of travel and conference support, for which 88 applications have been received this time (82 travel; 6 conference support), requesting a total of $263,124. The Trust Board will be meeting at the end of July 2010 and decisions will be advised as soon as possible after that meeting.
Three quarters of the applications in this round (68) were submitted via the online portal and those who chose this route were generally complimentary about it. The only problems of note arose when applicants tried to upload supporting documents which were refused by the website because they were above the permitted total of 750kb. On this point, it is wiser to upload a number of smaller files, as this allows the cumulative total to be controlled more easily. Larger documents should be sent separately by email if they are essential to an understanding of the application.
As noted previously, the October/November granting round will be the last one for which paper-based applications will be accepted. After that, applications must all be submitted electronically unless there are very exceptional circumstances, justified in advance to the MPPT office.