The College may award up to thirty-one travel grants in 2012. They will be awarded to undergraduates or graduates within fee-liability and/or on a compulsory year abroad, but will not normally be awarded to those in their final year. They are intended for travel that is not exclusively related to the applicants’ academic work. Successful candidates are required to write a short account of their travels in a form suitable for publication in the Wadham Gazette. If a grant is not thus accounted for, the College will require repayment. These grants are made possible by the generosity of former members of Wadham or other benefactors of the College.

T. C. W. STINTON TRAVEL GRANTS
These grants are endowed by friends of the late Tom Stinton, Classics Tutor of the College. They will be awarded for travel to and within the area of the Greek and Roman world. There will be up to three grants of £350 each.

JUDGE BURKA TRAVEL GRANTS
Up to four awards of £600 are possible by the generosity of Judge Alfred Burka of Washington DC. They will be made to applicants wishing to travel in the USA. A preference will be given to those who have not previously visited the country.

VICKY PHILO TRAVEL GRANTS
Up to four grants of £600. Preference will be given to proposals involving some musical purpose or interest. These awards are funded in memory of Vicky Philo.

WADHAM COLLEGE, MARSDEN, AND WADHAM SOCIETY TRAVEL GRANTS
Up to twenty grants of £350 each may be awarded for travel without restriction. Eight of these awards are paid for by the generosity of the Wadham Society, seven will be made from a College trust fund founded for this purpose by former members of the College in memory of Warden Wells, and five will be funded from the College’s Marsden bequest.

Applications, including a detailed statement of the proposed travel and its purpose, should be made in writing using the application form available here and sent electronically to the Senior Tutor (at tutorial@wadh.ox.ac.uk) not later than the end of noughth week of Trinity Term 2011 - i.e. Friday 20th April. This application will form the main evidence for awarding grants; it should show some reasoned purpose and plan for the proposed travel. Applicants should nominate a college tutor, who will be asked for a reference. The committee may take account of an applicant’s contribution to college life. Applications are encouraged from those who have not travelled much previously.

Applications for grants for travel undertaken in the Easter Vacation will be accepted, and will be considered retrospectively. There are, of course, no guarantees.

N.B. Please note that grants will not be given to visit countries or areas which, at the time of assessment, are listed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as places to which it is inadvisable to travel (including those to which only travel on essential business is recommended). This list can be found at http://www.fco.gov.uk.

Dr Caroline Mawson
Senior Tutor
February 2012