The J. R. Smallwood Foundation offers conference grants (up to $5,000) in support of organizing and hosting scholarly conferences that are within the Foundation's mandate. Conference applications must be for conferences that are planned to take place no earlier than February 15 of the subsequent calendar year. A conference and its organizers can be affiliated with Memorial University or other institutions. Applications for conference grants are adjudicated by a multi-disciplinary Awards Panel.

The application must be completed by the person organizing the conference or a person delegated by the conference’s organizing committee. Conference organizers are encouraged to seek other sources of funding.

Information for Applicants

1. Graduate Student Researchers

If you are a graduate student grant recipient, Smallwood/ISER will release the grant funds to your supervisor as the account holder. This is in keeping with the practice of other research units at Memorial. You will be listed as the awardee and are responsible for putting the application into the researcher portal.

To apply for a conference grant:

• Following the instructions, complete the Smallwood Conference Grant Application. Link can be found here: Smallwood Conference Grant Instructions
• Fill in the Applicant section on the Smallwood Conference Grant Letter of Appraisal form and then email it to the referee so they can fill in their section. These letters are sent directly by referees to iser@mun.ca for both internal and external applicants. Link can be found here: Smallwood Letter of Appraisal - Conference Grant  Note: Appraisal letters are not required for tenure-stream and tenured faculty of Memorial University.
• Applicants should email their application to iser@mun.ca.