The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant to support a DPC Member attending the Archives and Records Association Annual Conference (ARA 2024), taking place 28-30 August in Birmingham, UK.
This grant will cover 100% of the full conference registration fees (includes accommodation) and provide a contribution towards travel. Grant applications are welcomed from DPC members until 07:00 UTC on 4th June 2024.
About the ARA 2024 Conference
The Archives and Records Association (ARA) UK & Ireland Annual Conference brings together members, colleagues, and influential players of the recordkeeping sector to discuss the latest developments and network with fellow members of the community.
This year’s ARA 2024 Conference will take place in the new BCEC, a purpose built conference venue in the centre of Birmingham, UK, from 28th to 30th August.
The 2024 theme is ‘Climate and Crisis: Tackling It Together’: "over three days we address the major crises and challenges facing our communities and our profession, learning from our community and building stronger responses, together. The Climate Crisis is the challenge of an era with the responsibility to take action falling upon us all. Our profession must respond, learn from best practice and find new ways to contribute to the global effort. Our work faces other crises not least funding and resourcing challenges. We are better tackling this together too, and we want the conference to be a catalyst for this.”
To find out more, you can view the ARA 2024 programme here and further information about the conference is available at https://conference.archives.org.uk/ and @ARAconf.
About the DPC Career Development Fund Grant
This DPC Career Development Fund grant will provide funding to help with expenses incurred in attending the ARA 2024 conference in person. This may be used towards any one or all of the following expenses:
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Registration fee for the conference
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Hotel booking for up to three nights (Tuesday 27th August – Friday 30th August) at ARA 2024 preferred hotel (Holiday Inn Birmingham)
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Contribution towards travel expenses
The amount of funding is at the discretion of the review panel and will be explicitly stated in the grant offer letter to successful applicants.
For more information on the bursaries being offered by ARA for the conference, please click here.
Eligibility
All DPC Members are eligible to apply for this Career Development Fund grant. This grant is not available to non-members. Prospective members are eligible if their membership application is approved by the application deadline of 07:00 UTC on 4th June 2024. For information about joining the DPC, see https://www.dpconline.org/about/join-us.
Please note that only one grant is available per DPC member. DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised grant for ARA 2024 (e.g., one application for a person representing a DPC member organization). We recommend that any member organization which supports an application discusses appropriate outcomes and benefits for the organization prior to submission. Moreover, because only one grant is available per member institution, we recommend that applicants ensure that they are not inadvertently competing with colleagues.
For more details about eligibility and criteria for the grants, please read the full Career Development Fund Guidelines. Applicants are also encouraged to contact the Training and Grants Manager, Amy Currie (amy.currie@dpconline.org), should any questions arise.
How to Apply
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The application form for this grant and the full Career Development Fund Guidelines are available on the DPC website’s Career Development Fund page.
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned to Amy Currie (amy.currie@dpconline.org), accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor (via email or attached letter), by 7:00 UTC on 4th June 2024 (click here to see the deadline in your local time).
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Please note that only one grant is available per member per call. In other words, DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised ARA 2024 grant. There cannot be multiple applicants representing the same DPC membership, so please coordinate with colleagues to ensure one application is submitted.
Applicants are encouraged to contact the Training and Grants Manager, Amy Currie (amy.currie@dpconline.org), should any questions arise.
Important Dates
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned, accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor, by 7:00 UTC on 4th June 2024 (click here to see the application deadline in your local time).
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Successful applicants will be notified on or before 2nd July 2024.
Further Information
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For information relating to the ARA Conference, visit the website at https://openingdoors.eventsair.com/ara2024 and @ARAconf for news and updates.
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For questions relating to the DPC grant programme, email amy.currie@dpconline.org.
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For a list of other Career Development Fund grants available to DPC Members, see https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/prof-development/cdfund/dpc-grant-calendar.
Acknowledgements
The Career Development Fund is sponsored by the DPC’s Supporters who recognize the benefit and seek to support a connected and trained digital preservation workforce. We gratefully acknowledge their financial support to this programme and ask applicants to acknowledge that support in any communications that result. At the time of writing, the Career Development Fund is supported by Arkivum, Artefactual Systems Inc., boxxe, Cerabyte, Evolved Binary, Ex Libris, Iron Mountain, Libnova, Max Communications, Preservica and Simon P Wilson. A full list of supporters is online here.