I'd been mumbling a while back about not being able to afford attending conferences this year, especially with the "downscaling" of scholarship top-ups (meaning there would be none). Added to that, I've got to save some money for A's application for a visa this midyear.
Good news is, boss M announced that he is setting aside some money for all of us in the lab to attend a conference in late September. The catch is we have to present work there. No big deal, we always expect to give talks in meetings/seminars, so this is actually good!
At least I am sure I'll have at least one more conference to add to my CV without spending too much.
Publishing papers and funding
Every year, we used to receive a constant top-up to our scholarship from boss M. Since the money is scarce, he's set rules on how he's going to allocate it. In fact, he's set up a sort of "competition" amongst us.
So how it goes, is that for every paper we publish, we'll get an *award* for it. Each paper is worth half of the top-up I used to receive yearly. The paper has to be work accomplished with the lab.
The thing is, if we get productive and publish papers more, he's actually going to have more problems with money. That was funny, but he welcomed the challenge and opened even his own pool of money (for his own funding) to us, should we publish more. He's more than happy to oblige. So what came forth from here is not really a solution to the money being scarce. But it turned out to be a better set-up I should say.
I've got at least a couple of papers lined up. Let's see how it goes!
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