Sharon Bryce Educational Event Scholarship

The Australian Tissue Donation Network are pleased to announce the Sharon Bryce Educational Event Scholarship for Nurse Education, in honour of Sharon Bryce our Founding Director who sadly passed away last year.

About Sharon

Sharon completed her RN training in 1984 and her Bachelor in Health Science in 1997. She was instrumental in establishing the Queensland Bone Bank prior to moving to Sydney in 2003 to take up a position as Consultant to Australian Biotechnologies during their formative years. She completed her CTBS training in Washington DC in 1996.

Sharon has worked in the area of musculoskeletal tissue banking for over 30 years, she took up the challenge of moving into the position of Executive Director of ATDN in July 2016.

About the Scholarship

The Sharon Bryce Educational Event Scholarship aims to promote nurse participation and continued nurse education through providing opportunities to attend conference and educational events. The scholarship will cover the fees and costs of the selected conference or educational event but does not include travel, but not accommodation or meals relating to attendance.

Scholarship Eligibility and Application Guidelines

1. Funding Availability and Preferences

Each financial year, the ATDN Board will review the Scholarship fund and determine the annual budget allocation to the fund taking into consideration Special events scheduled for that year.

Any or all available funds need not be disbursed.

ATDN seeks to support as many applications for funding as possible. ATDN prefers to partially support numerous applications in preference to using all available funds for one application.

A points system, based on meeting contribution (e.g. invited speaker, oral/poster presentation, session Chair etc.) is used as a guideline to determine the amount awarded. Evidence of co-funding (e.g. applicant’s employer, other organisational support, self-funding) is also taken into consideration. Alternative funding requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis provided the requests are fully justified.

The amount actually awarded is dependent upon the level of external funding support obtained by the applicant, and the funds available in the Scholarship budget. Funding is not to exceed total costs of meeting attendance or travel costs.

 

2. Scholarship Eligibility

To be eligible for the Sharon Bryce Educational Event Scholarship funding, the applicant must:

  • Submit an application
  • Be attending a formal professional scientific or health based conference
  • Not have received a scholarship within the last 2 years

 

3. Application Guidelines

A. Application Submission:

Applications are to be submitted to Deb Stracey, Executive Director of the Australian Tissue Donation Network at deb@tissuedonationnetwork.org.au

The following information must be provided in the application and/or accompany the application:

  1. Copy of the event program
  2. Copy of the completed registration form
  3. Detailed budget including registration
  4. Statement of event relevance to the applicant’s organisation.
  5. Indication of proposed participation if the event is a Scientific meeting (eg copy of abstract)
  6. Letter of support from the applicant’s organisation
  7. Details of any other approved funding or pending applications

Applications MUST be received at least six weeks prior to the scheduled event, unless a deadline for a specified event has been set.

B. Application Assessment:

  • Each application is evaluated by the ATDN Board on its individual merit according to these guidelines
  • Each application is reviewed by the ATDN Board
  • Once endorsed the ATDN will inform the applicant of the application outcome in writing

C. Successful Applicant Responsibilities:

  • Submit receipts for reimbursement of allowed expenses (eg. Registrations Payment)

The provision of funds for this scholarship program is at the discretion of the ATDN Board and must be approved by a majority vote.