Stipends

PETS is committed to supporting the full participation of a diverse range of students, scholars, and professionals in the PETS community and its annual symposium, and recognizes that financial and logistical constraints can be a barrier for many. To help make PETS more accessible, each year we use money raised through sponsorships to help offset costs for attendees who need support in order to join the PETS symposium, whether in person or, if applicable, online.

If you are interested in the PETS symposium and cannot access sufficient resources from your organization to attend, we encourage you to apply for stipend support using the application process described below. Yes! We appreciate the irony of a privacy-focused organization asking for some very personal information. The reality is that the sponsorship funds we use to provide stipends often comes with restrictions and requirements about how it can be used. So while providing any of the information listed below in your stipend application is completely optional, we will be able to more equitably distribute the funding we have to everyone the more information you provide.

To apply for stipend support, please send an email to pets2023-stipend@petsymposium.org, indicating the following:

• Name, affiliation (if any), and contact information.
• If you are a full-time student, and if so, if you are a U.S. citizen or studying at a U.S. institution.
• If you are a PhD student, postdoc or faculty member at a UK university.
• Whether you identify as belonging to a group underrepresented in science and engineering.
• How much of a stipend it would take for you to attend PETS, whether in person or online.
• The specific costs the requested stipend would cover (e.g. child or elder care, registration, airfare, accommodation).
• A brief (250 words max) description of how you can contribute to PETS and the PETS community. The best answers to this question will reflect some understanding of what has — and hasn't — been published or discussed at PETS and an explanation of why your participation will bring a unique perspective that is currently lacking. The proceedings from PETS are freely available on the PETS website.
• If you are presenting at PETS and/or HotPETS, be sure to mention that too.

The initial deadline for applications is 15 May 2023. After this date, applications will be considered on a rolling basis with the final cut-off being 30th of June 2023. Stipends are limited by the funding we have available so we cannot guarantee that we can fulfill all requests or to support them in full. An early application is advised.