Funding for External Learning & Teaching Courses/Conferences
CAPOD has funds allocated to help all University staff (including postgraduate tutors/demonstrators) to attend external conferences, events and training courses that will develop them in their teaching role, such as (but not limited to):
- Higher Education Academy events
- Enhancement Theme events
- Subject Centre workshops/courses
- Conferences/symposia on the pedagogy of a discipline
- Online training in e-learning, plagiarism, etc (eg OCSLD courses)
CAPOD has separate funding opportunties for other staff cohorts such as support staff and early career researchers. For details of all funding opportunities, the guidelines for applying for funding, and to download the funding application form, go to the CAPOD funding page.
Examples of events that have been funded in the past include: Association for Medical Education in Europe conference; e-learning 2009: A hands-on workshop; Enhancement Themes conference; Librarians Information Literacy conference; Life & Work in Academia: event for new lecturers in languages, linguistics & area studies; OCSLD online course on Online Tutoring; Science on display: exploring and exhibiting science artifacts; Science Learning & Teaching conference.
Travel to Enhancement Theme Events
CAPOD and the University are keen to support staff engagement with the Enhancement themes, and therefore CAPOD will consider all requests to fund travel to Enhancement Theme events. Staff who wish to claim travel expenses to an Enhancement Theme event should contact CAPOD in advance of attending the event, and must be able to provide receipts to support their claim.
For more information contact our Administrator at capod@st-andrews.ac.uk
Higher Education Academy Travel Fund
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) in Scotland has a travel fund offering bursaries of up to £300, which aims to encourage staff and students in Scottish HEIs to engage with colleagues from other parts of the UK. (The HEA fund is unrelated to CAPOD funding.) Application can be made to the Academy Scotland fund separately or in addition to an application to CAPOD. Applications are accepted throughout the academic year until the fund is completely disbursed. For more information see: Academy Scotland travel fund.