Up to 18 travel grants with a maximum value of $2,000 will be made available to early-career scholars and IAMCR office holders, who are members of IAMCR, reside in low and middle income countries and have papers accepted for presentation at the conference.
The grants are intended to help offset the travel costs of IAMCR members who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference.
The deadline to apply for a travel grant is 20 March 2026 at 23:59 UTC.
You must be a current member of IAMCR logged in to your account to see the form and submit your application.
Eligibility
Travel grants are available only to early-stage scholars who have no tenured position at the moment of applying, who have an abstract accepted for full presentation at the conference, who currently reside* in low or middle income countries (see the country income classification list), and who have been paid-up members of IAMCR for at least one full year - that is, who are current members and were members in 2025. Representatives and student representatives of an institution that has been a member for 1 year qualify even if they were only added in the current year.
In a limited number of cases IAMCR office holders (chairs/vice-chairs of sections or working groups) in low and middle income countries may be eligible, even if they are not presenting a paper or are not early-stage scholars.
Note that for co-authored papers, only the first author is eligible for a grant unless he or she is unable to attend the conference.
The travel grant programme seeks to promote diverse participation at IAMCR conferences. In addition to the individual criteria for eligibility, the selection process will promote diversity amongst the travel grant awardees in terms of gender, region and country of residence, and will support participation of people with varying levels of prior involvement and activity in IAMCR.
Scholars who have received more than one IAMCR conference grant in the past are not eligible.
Important: You cannot apply until you receive confirmation from the head of your section or working group that your paper has been accepted for presentation at the Galway conference.
*Your country of residence is the country where you currently live, even if your residence is temporary. If you are studying, researching or teaching in a high-income country, you are considered a resident of that country and not eligible for a travel grant.
You must be a current member of IAMCR logged in to your account to see the form and submit your application.
