Doctoral Student Travel Grants
The Academic Senate is now accepting applications for the 2023-24 Doctoral Student Travel Grants.
The Doctoral Student Travel Grant awards travel funds to graduate students who have been invited or selected to present a paper,
present research, perform or exhibit at a major professional conference or meeting. Applicants must be doctoral students who have
advanced to candidacy, or Master of Fine Arts students who are in their second year of study and in candidacy prior to travel.
Students are eligible to receive two in-person Doctoral Student Travel Grants, one of which may be used for international travel,
during their graduate career at UCSB. A student who receives a grant for a virtual conference will still be eligible to receive
two grants for in-person conferences.
Deadline is at least 21 days in advance of travel.
The funding for the 2023-24 Doctoral Student Travel Grant is split into two equal pools:
- Pool One: Conference travel between July 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023
- Pool Two: Conference travel between January 1, 2024 and June 30, 2024
The Graduate Council has put these guidelines in place to help ensure that the grant funding will be distributed equally among those students attending conferences at the beginning and the end of the year.
Applications will be accepted for each pool until the funds are expended.
Doctoral Student Travel Grant Application 2023-24
Doctoral Student Travel Grant Policy 2023-24
Administrative Coordinator: doctoral.grants@senate.ucsb.edu