Non-Society Meetings

The Physiological Society can provide financial support of up to £750 to assist with the independent organisation of scientific meetings.

Applications are considered four times a year. Early applications are encouraged to allow for the review process to take place ahead of the start of the meeting (minimum of three months).

Funding is available to individuals only and is not intended to be used by other cognate societies or commercial organisations.  Please note funding cannot be used to cover catering or venue costs; it must be used to support the science. If multiple applications for funding are received for the same meeting, only one application will be considered.

To be eligible to apply:

At least one of the applicants must be a Postgraduate, Full, or Fellow member and be actively involved in the organisation of the meeting

Members should apply by the deadline that is at least three months before the meeting is due to be held. For example, if the meeting is in February, an application should be submitted by 30 September.

As a condition of the support, The Society asks the recipient to:

• Badge the meeting, session, speaker or prizes as ‘supported by The Physiological Society’ with the relevant Society logo
• Display Physiological Society logo, which will be provided
• Send a report for consideration for publication in Physiology News including photographs.

Applications are considered four times a year, the deadlines for which are:

• 31 March
• 30 June
• 30 September
• 31 December

All applications will be reviewed and selected on a competitive basis by members of the Conferences Committee and selected external reviewers.

Our journals may invite reviews at their discretion.

The Society is committed to increasing equality and diversity in the physiological sciences. Our work in this area permeates throughout all of our activities, organisers will be asked to commit to an aspirational target of 50% female representation of speakers, with a compulsory minimum of 33%. We will continue to work towards fair geographical balance as well as fair representation of both junior and senior research scientists.  Meetings will need to abide by our policy for a balanced and diverse programme of speakers.

Meeting title – Please provide the working title for the meeting.

Meeting dates – Please provide the dates for the meeting.

Meeting venue and location – Please provide the venue and location for the meeting.

How much funding are you applying for?  Please state how much funding you are applying for

What will the funding support? Please state what the funding, if awarded, will be used for.  If applying for speaker support, this will be awarded at The Society’s geographical band for speaker expenses.

Relevant Theme – Please indicate which Society Theme your proposal is relevant to.

• Cardiac & Vascular Physiology
• Education & Teaching
• Endocrinology
• Epithelia & Membrane Transport
• Human, Environmental & Exercise Physiology
• Metabolic Physiology
• Neuroscience

Strategic objectives – Please tick as many as apply.

Scientific Programme Organisers – Please provide full contact details. Please note that at least one person of the Scientific Programme Organisers should be a member of The Physiological Society, and have been for more than one year.

Anticipated audience – Please provide an estimation of the numbers of attendees and what areas they will probably work in eg cardiac physiologists, exercise scientists, mainly clinical, 60% early career researchers.

Physiological Society members – Please provide information on whether the meeting is open to all Society members, or if it’s an invite only or internal meeting.  Preference will be given to meetings that are open to all Society members.

Keywords to help with promotion – Please include some keywords that will assist with targeting the conference for marketing and promotion.  Please see below for The Society’s keywords for abstract tagging:

• Autonomic Function and Neuroscience
• Blood Brain Barrier
• Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Autonomic Control
• Cellular Neurophysiology
• Cellular Signalling
• Comparative & Invertebrate Neuroscience
• Comparative Physiology
• Neural Development & Plasticity
• Health & Wellbeing Physiology
• Epithelia & Membrane Transport
• GI Tract
• Heart and Cardiac Muscle
• Human Physiology
• Ion Channels
• Locomotion
• Microvascular & Endothelial Physiology
• Muscle Contraction
• Molecular Physiology
• Neuroendocrinology/Endocrinology
• Placental & Perinatal Physiology
• Renal Physiology
• Respiratory Physiology
• Sensorimotor Control
• Sensory Functions
• Smooth Muscle
• Somatosensory Physiology
• Teaching

Scientific Programme, and invited speakers – Please attach a draft programme for the meeting to your email application.

Diversity guidelines statement – The Society is committed to increasing equality and diversity in the physiological sciences. Our work in this area permeates throughout all of our activities, organisers will be asked to commit to an aspirational target of 50% female representation of speakers, with a compulsory minimum of 33%. We will continue to work towards fair geographical balance as well as fair representation of both junior and senior research scientists.