Grants for Conferences and Workshops

We offer grants of up to £1000 to Galton Institute members  to help meet the cost of organising and running of conferences or workshops on topics relevant to the Institute’s aims and objectives.  We plan to offer four grants each year with a strong preference for conferences that could not take place without the Institute’s sponsorship.  A grant will be subject to the following conditions:

• The Institute’s sponsorship of the conference will be mentioned on all conference literature, including any web page relating to the conference (which should provide a link to the Institute's web site)
• A representative of the Institute will be entitled to attend the conference and be given a five-minute slot to say a few words about the Institute’s work (we may not always take up that entitlement)
• A brief report of the conference (500 to 1000 words) will be provided for the Institute’s Newsletter (the Galton Institute attendee may be willing to produce this, but otherwise the organiser will have to do so)
• Funding will be limited to reimbursement of actual expenditure on items such as room hire, travelling expenses, promotion, printing of conference materials, light refreshments etc

You don't have to be a member of the Institute to apply, but if successful you will have to join before receiving the grant.

Applications should be sent to the General Secretary and should include the following information:

• Brief CV of organiser
• Outline of conference programme
• Approximate date
• Venue (ie which city and institution)
• Estimated cost by heads of expenditure and details of any other funding available for the conference

We would not expect the application to exceed two A4 sides (excluding organiser’s CV) and we would prefer electronic submission (Word, PDF or similar file attached to email) to facilitate onward circulation.

Funded Conferences and Workshops

This scheme has funded the following conferences:

• 'The Darwinian Renaissance in the Humanities and Social Sciences' held at the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, 13 November 2009. Click here for a report of the meeting
• 'Fertility declines in the past, present and future: what we don't know and what we need to know' co-organised by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the British Society for Population Studies, held in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, 15-17 July 2009. Click here for a report of the meeting
• 'Why aren't the social sciences Darwinian?' held at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of Cambridge, 14-16 May 2009. Click here for a report
• 4th European Human Behaviour and Evolution conference, held at the University of St Andrews, 6-8th April 2009. Click here for a report of the meeting.
• 'Hammering Flakes or Flaking Hammers? Palaeoanthropology Meets Primatology 2: The Origins of Percussive Technology', held at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, 18th October 2008. Click here for a report
• 'Trade-offs in female life histories: raising new frameworks in an integrative framework', workshop part of a series on Evolutionary Demography part-funded by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, held at the University of Bristol, 22-25th July 2008. Click here for a report of the conference
• Reproducing Regulation: New Laws for Fertility Treatment and Embryo Research - Will We Get it Right? A conference organised by the Progress Educational Trust, held at the Institute of Child Health, London, 1st November 2007. Click here for a report of the conference
• 'Sex, shopping and sharing: insights from animals to humans and back again', summer meeting of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, held at the University of Newcastle, 5-7th September 2007
• Workshop on Innovation and Evolution, held at the University of Southampton, 27-28th April 2007. Click here for a report of the meeting
• 2nd European Human Behaviour and Evolution conference, held at London School of Economics, 28-30th March 2007. Click here for a report of the meeting