BSIR Bursaries, Awards and Grants

Bursaries

Awards

BSIR 2025 Essay and Case Study Awards now open

Grants

BSIR 2025 Educational Grants now open

In order to support the BSIR Membership, the BSIR offers funding through three main channels:

BSIR Bursaries

• Bursaries offer funding to BSIR Members for individual projects or endeavours, which have been reviewed by a BSIR Committee and approved for financial support.
• Total funds available to support these bursaries are decided and agreed within the Executive Officers team annually.
• Current bursaries available are the Education, Research and Robert Bardsley Bursaries. 

BSIR Educational Awards

• These awards offer an agreed amount of financial support to enable attendance at BSIR educational events. 
• These are awarded based on academic merit, following the submission of abstracts, essays or case studies, depending on the event.
• Examples of these awards include Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) Essay Scholarships, ASM Case Study Awards, the Robert Bardsley Award and IOUK Educational Awards. 

BSIR Educational Grants

• These grants offer an agreed amount of financial support to enable attendance at BSIR educational events. 
• There is no element of academic merit or achievement required to access these grants.
• In order to responsibly spend BSIR funds, these grants are only available where proof that an individual cannot secure support from other sources has been submitted.
• Examples of these grants are the Educational Grants offered to support attendance at the ASM.