Ahead of the live and in-person IFST Spring Conference 2023, we are excited to be partnering with the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) to announce 10 early-career bursaries for food scientists to attend the conference.
The bursaries will give free entry to the hotly-anticipated SC23 which will be taking place on 27 April 2023 at Cardiff Metropolitan University in South Wales. Awardees will also be given a year’s IFST membership, gaining them access to the UK’s leading professional body for those in the food sector.
The bursary is part of IFST’s ongoing efforts to bring new voices into the dynamic world of food science and technology. Members of IFST can participate in ever-growing Special Interest Groups covering subjects from Food Safety and Food Innovation to Sensory Science.
With over 3,500 members spanning the full spectrum of food-related professions, bursary winners will be able to access and network with a diverse group from around the world. As members, they will also receive the Food Science and Technology magazine, which is published quarterly. The magazine covers key issues and news from the world of food, while updating members about developments within IFST.
We encourage early-career food scientists from all backgrounds to apply to this exciting opportunity and are looking forward to selecting and announcing the winners.
To apply, we ask you to submit a 500-word case study about your achievements and contributions in the area of food safety, with a particular focus on the last year where possible.
The 10 winners will be selected by an expert panel from the IFST team!
Applications to the bursary will close one month before the conference on March 24.
Entrants should note that IFST is not able to cover transport costs to and from SC23 or overnight accommodation.
If you have any questions about the application process or bursaries, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@ifst.org (email button on website).
Criteria:
- The article must not be longer than 500 words and must be your own work
- Clearly written and concise
- Describe a case study and what your part in the activity was
- Engaging and original
- The material must not be commercially sensitive and suitable for publication online and in print
- The decision of the judge’s panel is final
Eligibility and Terms and Conditions:
- Open to all people working in the food supply chain (farm to fork) both the UK and overseas
- You must have been working in the food industry in a scientific or technically related role for less than five years. You may or may not be currently employed
- The competition is open to current IFST non-members only
- Submissions must be new original work that has not previously won prizes in other competitions, published and or entered in other competitions. (this includes articles published in any online sources, websites, blogs, publications and thesis)
- Articles that have won prizes in other competitions are not eligible.
- Entry must be all your own work and not be overtly commercial (promoting a company’s products or services)
- Only one entry per applicant
- Entries (Word document) should be submitted to info@ifst.org with “Early Careers Bursary Competition [your name]” in the subject field. All entries must be received by 23:59 on 24 March 2023
The Competition is not open to:
- Employees of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) or Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)
- Entrants into the Competition shall be deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions.
- Only one entry per person. Entries on behalf of another person will not be accepted and joint submissions are not allowed. You are responsible for the cost (if any) of sending your Competition entry to us.
- IFST accepts no responsibility for entries that are lost, delayed, misdirected or incomplete or cannot be delivered or entered for any technical or other reason. Proof of delivery of the entry is not proof of receipt by IFST.
- The Competition will open at the time of launch of the competition on the IFST website and will close at 23.59 pm on the end date specified on that page. Entries received outside this time period will not be considered. IFST reserves the right in its absolute discretion to extend the closing date where the entries received are of insufficient quality.
- You own the copyright to your Competition entry as its author.
- By submitting an entry to the Competition, you give IFST:
- Permission for your Competition entry to be published on the IFST website and on any social media account controlled by IFST, including but not limited to Linked In, Facebook and Twitter accounts (“IFST Social Media Accounts”), and you grant IFST a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use and publish your Competition entry in electronic format (including on the IFST Website and Social Media Accounts) and hard copy (including in Food Science and Technology magazine) for purposes connected with the Competition, and to adapt the entry to enable such publication (including to crop or otherwise edit it for such purposes), and you waive, for the benefit of IFST, all moral rights in the entry to which you are entitled; and
- The right to use your name and position for the sole purpose of identifying you as the author of your entry and/or as a winner of the Competition.
- We may disqualify your Competition entry for the following reasons: your entry does not comply with these Terms and Conditions; you are not eligible to enter the Competition, or you cannot be contacted. In the event of disqualification, we may select a new winner in accordance with the selection processes outlined below.
The Prize
- The winner will receive a year’s associate membership of IFST and entry to the SC23 spring conference.
- Winners will be notified by phone or e-mail within seven (7) days of the closing date and be given details of how to claim the prize. If a winner does not respond to IFST within seven (7) days of being notified of their win, the winner’s prize will be forfeited and IFST shall be entitled to select another winner in accordance with the process described above (and that winner will have to respond to notification of their win within seven (7) days of being notified or else they will also forfeit their prize). If a winner rejects their prize or the entry is invalid or in breach of these terms, the winner’s prize will be forfeited and IFST shall be entitled to select another winner.
- The prize is non-exchangeable, non-transferable, and is not redeemable for cash or another prize.
- The winner may be required to take part in promotional activity related to the Competition and the winner shall participate in such activity on IFST’s reasonable request. The winner consents to the use by IFST, both before and after the closing date of the Competition for an unlimited time, of the winner’s voice, image, photograph and name for publicity purposes (in any medium, including still photographs and films, and on the internet, including any websites hosted by IFST and in advertising, marketing or promotional material without additional compensation or prior notice and, in entering the Competition, all entrants consent to the same.
- IFST shall use and take care of any personal information you supply to it as described in its privacy policy, a copy of which can be seen at https://www.ifst.org/privacy and in accordance with data protection legislation. By entering the Competition, you agree to the collection, retention, usage and distribution of your personal information in order to process and contact you about your Competition entry, and for the purpose outlined in paragraph 12 above.
- IFST accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities, injury or disappointment incurred or suffered by you as a result of entering the Competition or accepting the prize.