The Ageing Special Interest Research Group is sponsoring travel awards open to students and early career researchers in the field of ageing and intellectual disability. Two of the awards will be reserved for early career researchers.

For further information, contact Philip McCallion, philip.mccallion@temple.edu

The special interest group for Challenging Behaviour and Mental Health is sponsoring two awards up to students and young researchers in the field of intellectual disability and challenging behaviour and mental health.

For further information, contact: Peter Langdon; P.E.Langdon@kent.ac.uk

The Ethics SIRG agreed to support 2 travel awards of $500 each to support attendance by doctoral students or researchers no more than 3 years post-doc.

For further information, contact: Jennifer Clegg; Jennifer.Clegg@Nottingham.ac.uk

To support the participation at the World Congress for family caregivers, students or young researchers active in research relevant to families of children or adults with intellectual and developmental disability. Priority will be given to applicants from low income countries.

For further information, contact: Sandy Magana, smagana@austin.utexas.edu

The Health Special research group is sponsoring up to six travel awards open to students or early career researchers in the field of health and intellectual disability.

For further information contact Laurence Taggart; i.taggart@ulster.ac.uk

The Inclusive Education Special Interest Research Group is sponsoring a travel award open to a student or early career researchers in the field of inclusive education.

For further information, contact : Scott Tompson; scott.thimpson@uregina.ca

The Parenting Special Interest Research Group is sponsoring travel awards open to students and/or early career researchers in the field of parenting and intellectual or developmental disability.

For further information, contact: Marjorie Aunos, ninja.marj@gmail.com

The Policy and Practice Special Interest Research Group is sponsoring a travel award open to a student or early career researchers, priority will be given to applicants from low income countries in the field of policy and practice and intellectual disability.

For further information, contact: Michael Brown; m.j.brown@qub.ac.uk

‘Carla Vlaskamp award for early career researchers in the field of persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities’.

Has been established by the Special Interest Research Group on Persons with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (SIRG-PIMD) to support the participation of a PhD-student at the European or World Conference of IASSIDD. Carla Vlaskamp is one of the founders of the SIRG-PIMD and played an important role in the ‘visibility’ of persons with PIMD and in generating knowledge for science and practice about those people. The award provides the reimbursement of eligible expenses incurred to attend the Conference. Applicants should not have a PhD degree at the start date of the Conference.

For further information, contact : Bea Maes, Chair SIRG-PIMD; bea.maes@kuleuven.be

This award ($500) has been established by the Special Interest Research Group on Quality of Life (SIRG-QOL) to support the participation of a young researcher at the European or World Conference of IASSIDD.  Bob Schalock and Roy Brown are internationally known researchers in the I/DD and Quality of Life field and are the founders of the SIRG-QOL.  They each played a significant role in the ‘early development” of Quality of Life research tools and in advancing the knowledge, science, and practice in the Quality of Life field.

For further information contact: Alice Schippers, alice.schippers@tiscali.nl