Indigenous Scholarships (Travel Grants)
Grants, Bursaries & Prizes
These scholarships operate in the same way as the student travel grants and have similar parameters. That is, they are open only to Australian or New Zealand indigenous members (current or intentional) of the MSA or the New Zealand Musicological Society respectively; the applicants are to send applications to the Awards Chair with a copy of the anticipated expenses for traveling.
Selection may be competitive depending upon the number and quality of applications. The Conference Committee must have accepted the applicant’s paper and/or presentation.
The number of grants awarded will be at the discretion of the Awards Chair and National Executive and may vary from year to year. Indigenous presenters can apply for both indigenous and non-indigenous grants. Applicants do not have to be students.
The funding administration of both the student and the Indigenous travel grants operate according to need. In 2006, a total of $3,000-4,000 per annum total for student grants was floated as a feasible amount given the limited MSA resources. The National Executive discussed this floating value via phone conference on 19 January 2006.
For the 2010 MSA/NZMS Dunedin conference the MSA awarded a total of approximately $18,000 to both student and indigenous presenters.
In 2011 a total of $20,000 in MSA funding and a further $10,000 in funding from the Vice-Chancellor’s Discretionary Fund from The University of Western Australia, the host institution for the conference, was allotted to cover over 50 applications.
