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Connected Minds 2025 Conference - Travel Award Application (2025)

To better facilitate attendance and participation at the Connected Minds 2025 Conference being held on October 6-8, 2025, the Black and Indigenous Trainee Travel Award and Early Career Researcher Travel Award have been developed to cover the cost of basic travel fare to and from Toronto, accommodations for a room in the Schulich Hotel & Conference Centre, and conference registrations fees for applicants presenting a poster or abstract at the Conference. Award recipients will be selected at random from the applicant pool.

Please Note: This opportunity is not open to Connected Minds members or funded trainees at York or Queen's.

To be eligible, for either Travel Award, applicants must be presenting a poster or oral presentation (i.e., abstract) at the conference.

To be eligible, for the Black and Indigenous Trainee Travel Award, applicants must identify as either Black (American, Canadian, Caribbean, and/or African) and/or Indigenous Peoples of Canada (First Nation, Métis, and/or Inuit) by completing a self-identification survey found on Page 2 of this Survey. Note: Applicants of the Early Career Researcher Travel Award do not have to complete a self-identification survey.

The self-identification information can only be accessed by the Connected Minds Program Director (Caitlin Mullin), and EDI and Community Outreach Specialist (Andrew Castillo).

Self-identification information will be password protected and kept on a secure server only accessed by the Connected Minds staff members mentioned above. Information will remain in the server until 2037 as mandated by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF).

To indicate that you would like to be considered for this travel award, please complete the following form. The survey contains between 5 or 10 questions, depending on which travel award you are applying to, and will take less than 3 minutes to complete.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Andrew Castillo (drewcast@yorku.ca), EDI and Community Outreach Specialist for Connected Minds.

Application deadline is September 8, 2025.
1.Please select which Travel Award you're applying to

Please Note: An Early Career Researcher is a researcher within five years from the date of their first research-related appointment, minus eligible delays in research where: a) research-related appointments are defined as those where the individual has the autonomy to conduct research independently; and b) all eligible leaves (e.g., maternity, parental, medical, bereavement) are credited as twice the amount of time taken, and professional leaves (e.g., training, sabbatical, administrative) are not credited.
(Required.)
2.Full Name(Required.)
3.Email Address(Required.)
4.Title of Abstract/Poster(Required.)
5.Please provide information on the City, State/Region/Province, Country that you are travelling from to attend the conference?(Required.)