The HIS Travel Grant is run by the Healthcare Infection Society, a UK charity for professionals working to prevent healthcare-associated infections. It helps members in an early career or trainee post present their research at a scientific conference or meeting.
Eligible events include HIS and HIS-supported conferences such as FIS/HIS International and HIS Special Interest Group meetings. There are two deadlines a year.
Benefits & funding
- Up to £750 towards registration, travel, accommodation, childcare or companion costs, and subsistence.
- Online-only events: registration fee only, at most £350.
- Paid in arrears against receipts, only after HIS acknowledges your post-event report.
- Air travel is not routinely funded where another mode of transport is an option.
- If the conference is cancelled or you cannot attend, the award lapses and any money received is repaid.
Eligibility
- HIS members only, elected before the date of the event; no nationality or residence rule.
- Membership is free for trainees; Full or Associate membership costs from £90 a year, and is free for those living in low and lower-middle income countries.
- Early-career or trainee members presenting accepted work; senior staff only in extenuating circumstances, with justification and after contacting HIS first.
- The presented work must sit within healthcare-associated infection and infection prevention and control.
- Not open to anyone who received a travel grant in the past 2 years.
- Only one application per research team, lab or clinical unit for the same conference.
Can you apply?
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No nationality, residency, education, experience, gender or age limit is listed. The other conditions are under Eligibility.
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Application process
- 1Join HIS before the event.
- 2Email the signed application form, your abstract, estimated costs and proof of abstract acceptance to grants@his.org.uk.
- 3The application must be approved by your line manager, supervisor or Head of Department.
- 4Submit by 1 September or 1 February, and at least 2 weeks before the event.
- 5Within 3 months of the event, send a written report and an expenses claim with receipts.
Program timeline
Most recent deadline (passed)
1 September 2026
Next deadline
1 February 2027
Following deadline
1 September 2027
Within 3 months after the event
Report and expenses claim due