Travel Funding

The Graduate Program in Law and Society offers funding support to currently enrolled LLM and PhD students for two types of travel. Application processes and available funds are different for each type, please read instructions carefully or contact the Graduate Assistant for assistance.

Presenting at Conferences

The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) and Graduate Students' Society (GSS) offer limited funding to support travel to conferences. Students are reimbursed for expenses upon return from travel. The funds are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis for currently enrolled graduate students. Priority is given to first time recipients. Students can only apply for funding once a fiscal year (April 1-March 31).

Submit the Faculty of Graduate Studies Travel Grant Application to the Graduate Assistant in advance of your travel dates.

The Law Graduate Program offers addition support for those students who will be presenting, based on their application for FGS funding.

If the FGS does not fund a student, the Law Graduate Program will award 25% higher funding than the standard FGS amount (e.g., $600 to present in Toronto increases to $750). If the FGS does fund a student the Law Graduate Program will award 25% less funding than the standard FGS amount (e.g., $600 to present in Toronto decreases to $450). Students presenting overseas will be awarded an additional $200.

If Law Graduate Program funding becomes low, priority will be given to those students who have not previously drawn on the fund. If Law Graduate Program funding becomes increasingly low, setting criteria for the types of conferences supported (i.e., peer reviewed) may be considered.

Field Work Support

The Law Graduate Program offers funds for the reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by law graduate students in connection with their thesis/dissertation field work. These funds are available for travel for research purposes only.

You should submit your application only after completing your University of Victoria Human Research Ethics Board (HREB) application and after your supervisor has indicated that you are ready to begin your field work.

Students are limited to a program maximum of:

• LLM students – $2,000
• PhD students - $4,000

You are welcome to apply for smaller amounts over more than one trip but only to the maximums listed above. Funds must be spent within six months of allocation.

Please note that owing to budgetary constraints, we may not be able to provide the full amount of field work funding to multiple students at the same time.

Field Work Support Application Form

Your supervisor must sign your application and a description of your thesis/dissertation (five page maximum) must be attached.

You will not be reimbursed for expenses claimed without meticulously conforming to University requirements for expense report submissions. Please see the Travel Claim Instructions.

Scholarship Interviews

If graduate students are selected to attend a scholarship interview outside of Victoria and the student has been nominated for the scholarship by the University of Victoria, then the Law Graduate Program will match the funding provided by the University to attend the interview.