Travel Bursary
The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences aims to provide our members with the recourse to communicate and collaborate and is committed to providing opportunities for professional development. To this end CSFS have established a Travel Bursary to support and encourage members to present at relevant events.
Description
The Travel Bursary is awarded to support CSFS members to present their research at relevant conferences.
Criteria
The topic of the presentation must have current merit to the forensic science and/or criminal justice system, either academic or practitioner.
Applicants must have been members of The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences for at least 1 calendar year prior to application
The Award
The award will consist of travel bursary of a maximum of £500 (fully receipted) for the recipient to attend and present at a conference proposed by them and approved by CSFS.
The award will be presented twice a year. Applicants may NOT apply twice in the same year.
Application
Submissions can be made via email to nicola.schumacher@csofs.org. All submissions will be assessed on a case by case basis.
Important Dates
Deadline for applications 30th June and 31st December. Applications will be reviewed and awarded in 1 calendar month after corresponding closing date.
Previous Winners
- 2026 Part 1 Bryony Nuttall International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics Annual Conference 2026 ‘Checking Procedures: a roundtable discussion’
- 2025 Part 2 Dr Subham Mukherjee 24th Triennial Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences IAFS 2026 ‘From scrubbed skeletons to smart workflows: Multi-omics for future-ready human identification’
- 2025 Part 1 Dr Varsha Warrier 26th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology ‘Prevalence of directional asymmetry within the acetabulum and its’
implications for age estimation - 2024 Part 2 Dr Madeline Robles American Academy of Forensic Sciences 2025 ‘3D Biological Profile: the application of 3D (STL) models of skeletal remains to assist with human identification’
- 2024 Part 1 Joel Able CSFS Autumn Conference 2024 ‘Further research into alternative carrier solvents for the detection of latent fingermarks’
- 2023 Part 2 Dr Richard Rhodes International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics [IAFPA] 2024 – ‘Key Forensic Voice Analysis Cases in the United Kingdom’
- 2023 Part 1 Dr Ana Flavia Belchior de Andrade 23rd Triennial Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences – ‘The challenges in the identification of thermolabile new psychoactive substances, where we are and the way forward’
- 2022 Part 2 Not awarded
- 2022 Part 1 Dr Madeline Robles ANZFSS 25th International Symposium on Forensic Science 2022 – ‘Human Identification: An investigation of 3D models of paranasal sinuses to establish a biological profile on a modern UK population’
- 2021 Part 2 Not awarded
- 2021 Part 1 Matteo Gallidabino 73rd annual AAFS 2021 – ‘A novel machine learning approach based on quantitative profile-profile relationship (QPPR) to address complex source-level problems in the forensic analysis of gunshot residue (GSR)
- 2020 Part 2 Not awarded
- 2020 Part 1 Lana Brockbals 22nd Triennial Meeting IAFS 2020 – ‘Postmortem, redistribution: A systematic study on time-dependant concentration changes of opioids (morphine and methadone) and endogenous analytes’
- 2019 Part 2 Megan Needham Interpretative Forensic Sciences: common issues – ‘The Standardization of contemporaneous notes via the use of forms: Applications in Fingermark and Handwriting Examination’
- 2019 Part 1 Emily Horrocks American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS) 71st Annual Scientific Meeting – 3 posters presented
- 2018 Rachael Carew 24th International Symposium on Forensic Sciences – ‘Additive manufacturing in forensic anthropology: preliminary results investigating accuracy, reliability and repeatability’