Travel Funding

Travel Funding

PRESENTING YOUR WORK AT CONFERENCES

To enhance their academic career prospects, we encourage PhD students to present their research at high‐quality conferences and become involved in the broader academic community. The school will pay reasonable costs of registration, economy travel and accommodation not covered by other sources up to a maximum of $2,000, for one eligible refereed academic conference per year, for any student presenting his/her own research in a regular conference session.. If you have submitted your research for presentation at a peer-reviewed conference, first apply for travel funds from the Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA) office and the Faculty of Arts. If the research is co-authored with a faculty member, often the faculty member will subsidize the student’s travel from a research grant.

Other sources of travel funding:

PhD Student Travel Policy 

Approved by SAF Executive Council April 2010

  1. In‐residence PhD students will accumulate $750 of discretionary funds per student, per year completed in the program. The student may spend these funds only after passing the comprehensive exam, and may not claim any unspent balance after starting full‐time employment, regardless of continuing enrolment in the PhD program. The student may claim reimbursement only for legitimate, documented expenses related to attending academic conferences or doctoral consortia.
  2. In addition to the above discretionary travel funds, the SAF will pay reasonable costs of economy travel and accommodation not covered by another funding source, up to a maximum of $2,000, for one eligible refereed academic conference per year, for any student presenting his/her own research in a regular conference session.
    1. Eligible conferences include the CAAA, CAR and AAA (including AAA section) meetings. The PhD Policy Committee will consider funding travel to other high‐quality refereed academic conferences on request.
    2. Poster sessions, AAA “New Scholar” sessions and similar conference involvement, while potentially beneficial, do not qualify for this funding.
    3. Students must apply for funds from (as applicable) the GSO, Arts, the AAA and CAAA before requesting SAF funds. We expect faculty co‐authors who have research grant money to be the first SAF source of funding.
  3. Annually, the SAF will pay for one doctoral student who has passed the comprehensive exam to attend the American Accounting Association/Deloitte & Touche/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium. The PhD Policy Committee will decide which student to send each year.

This policy will be effective 1 July 2010, and will not apply retroactively. UW Policy 31 governs all university travel claims and defines allowable expenses.

TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR OTHER STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES 

American Accounting Association/Deloitte & Touche/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium.

Annually, the SAF will pay for one doctoral student who has passed the comprehensive exam to attend the American Accounting Association/Deloitte & Touche/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium. The PhD Policy Committee will decide which student to send each year.

Financial Accounting & Reporting Section (FARS) Doctoral Consortium 

Annually, the SAF will nominate one doctoral student who has passed the comprehensive exam to attend the FARS Doctoral Consortium. Travel support will be up to $1,500.  The PhD Policy Committee will decide which student to nominate each year.

Accounting PhD Rookie Recruiting and Research Camp

Annually, the SAF will provide up to $1,500 travel support to students on the job market to attend the Rookie Camp.