KBHN National Training Program aims to enhance the training of the next generation of researchers and professionals to develop and implement innovative solutions and services with the potential to improve the lives of children living with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families.
Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) is pleased to offer a limited number of travel awards to assist training program members (students, post-docs, research associates, persons with lived experience, and family members) to present their work. The awardees will be featured on the KBHN website, newsletter, and social media.
Summary
- Award: The awardee will receive up to $2,000 to offset the cost of conference registration, travel, and accommodation.
- Eligibility: The applicant must be a member of the KBHN training program (students, post-docs, research associates, persons with lived experience, and family members).
- Application Deadline: The application has already closed.
- Award Notice: Two weeks after application.
What is the Access Award?
The KBHN Access Award aims to reduce financial barriers, making it possible for KBHN network trainees to present their work in the area of NDDs to a wider audience. This year, KBHN Access Award is open to support presentations at conferences that occur before August 31st, 2024.
What are the Benefits of the Access Award?
Awardees can receive up to $2,000. The funding is designed to support:
- Conference registration fees.
- Travel costs for a return most economical economy class airfare or ground transportation from the awardee’s city of residence.
- Accommodation in conference location. Shared rooms are not required. Both hotels and AirBnB are accepted.
Who Can Apply?
The applicant must be a KBHN training program member in good standing (students, post-docs, research associates, persons with lived experience, and family members).
- If you are not a member of the KBHN network, please register here.
- The applicant must be a presenter or a co-presenter.
- The work presented must be focused on impacting children with neurodevelopmental disability and their families.
- This award is conditional on the presentation abstract to be accepted.
- Please note that the Access Award is only provided for conferences occurring before August 31, 2024. Please plan your time accordingly.
How to Apply?
To apply, please submit the following information to training@kidsbrainhealth.ca:
- The completed application form. The application form includes:
- The estimated budget (including registration, travel costs, and accommodation)
- Abstract to be presented, along with the formal list of authors
- Proof of abstract acceptance by the chosen conference
Please contact the KBHN training manager (training@kidsbrainhealth.ca) for any questions.
- Please note that the application for the Access Award has already closed. We thank all applicants for submitting an application.
Award Requirement
Before the event: Selected applicants must register for the event and provide proof of registration (e.g., purchased conference ticket) by emailing training@kidsbrainhealth.ca. Funding will be provided upfront in full value in advance of the event upon the reception of the registration proof.
After the event: As an Access Award recipient, you are expected to acknowledge KBHN support in your presentation. Also, you must provide a letter of attendance from the conference organizers and an 800-1000 word blog post that reflects meaningfully upon the activity undertaken within one month of attending the conference. You also commit to providing KBHN with related photos. The blog post and photos will be posted on the KBHN website.
About the Kids Brain Health Network
The Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) is a national research network established under the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Program, an initiative of the Canadian government to foster partnerships between universities, industry, government, and not-for-profit organizations with the goal of mobilizing knowledge generated through research in ways that deliver socio-economic benefit to Canada.
As a national organization, KBHN partners with community groups, non-profit organizations, industry, parents, clinicians, health professionals, and provincial and federal governments to advance evidence- based solutions to improve outcomes for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families. KBHN particularly values the voice of families and individuals with lived experience in the research that it funds, as partners in the research itself, in the review process and in mobilizing the knowledge generated.
As a part of this network, the KBHN National Training Program aims to enhance the training of the next generation of researchers and professionals to undertake interdisciplinary and inclusive research to generate and/or apply new knowledge.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement
KBHN is committed to excellence in research and research training. Achieving a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive Canadian research enterprise is essential to creating the excellent, innovative, and impactful research necessary to advance knowledge and understanding, and to respond to local, national, and global challenges in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities.
With these goals in mind, KBHN is committed to:
- Supporting equitable access to funding opportunities for all members of the research community.
- Promoting the integration of equity, diversity and inclusion-related considerations in research design and practices.
- Increasing equitable and inclusive participation in the research system, including on research teams.
- Collecting the data and conducting the analyses needed to include equity, diversity, and inclusion considerations in decision-making.
Through these means, KBHN will work with those involved in the research system to develop the inclusive culture needed for research excellence and to achieve outcomes that are rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the concerned stakeholders in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities.
