Timeline for Professor expects me to attend a conference. I can't afford to go,even with 50% funding
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| Mar 11, 2019 at 15:32 | comment | added | Dawn | Agree with this! As a PhD student, your current department and/or university should have opportunities for you to secure conference funding. I would assume the former prof does not expect that you personally pay the remaining 50%, but instead that your new PhD institution pays the remaining 50%. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 12:06 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @ChrisH It must have changed then. Or your field is Computer Science. Thanks for the update. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 7:17 | comment | added | Chris H | @CaptainEmacs perhaps there's a difference between fields or institutions, or something changed over time, but I did a PhD in Germany quite recently (finished 2 years ago) and never heard of a student travelling to conferences with anything other than total reimbursement. | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 21:44 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @BryanKrause Ah, yes, the first line - of course, I overlooked it, thanks. As for funding, before I discovered how it's done in my current institution, I thought it is quite normal as a student to pre-fund conferences, get only half back and only after waiting for months for your expenses. But I must say, seeing it in my current institution done with a proper effort to minimally affect the finances of the people you employ or who do you a service, I realise how cavalier that other attitude is. | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 21:33 | history | edited | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 7, 2019 at 20:04 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @CaptainEmacs The first words of the OP: "I am a first year Ph.D. student. During my masters (which was in a different university)" From several other questions on the topic of conference funding, it seems fairly typical that students often need to find their own funding (incl by applying for funds), especially if they are now at a different institution, though it depends on my field. Certainly in my field I would agree with you, because it is common for students to be funded by professor's grants and for those grants to include travel funds, but this is not the case in all fields. | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 19:58 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @Buffy It was not clear to me that this would be the prof's private funds? I may have overlooked it. Where did OP mention this? The OP's formulation might be ambiguous, but I would have read it that the prof would have funds for half the trip (not that he would pay 50% privately). | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 19:56 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @BryanKrause I must have missed the OP saying that he is at a different institution? Where does he say this? | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 19:56 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @BryanKrause Ok, you are right, I should explain: I found that, in the UK (or at least in my institution) it is considered unacceptable that an employee or student should not be reimbursed fully for a business trip, be paid less than full salary for a job. Retroactively, learning this, the German system for PhD students appears really exploitative. (Of course, one could say, Germany does not take tuition fees, but that's a separate issue). | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 19:19 | comment | added | Buffy | @CaptainEmacs, for a personal-funds offer, it would be generous, I think. That was what I based it on. | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 19:16 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @CaptainEmacs Your comment doesn't make much sense to me. It seems like you are saying "In the UK this would not be considered generous; in Germany it would" at least in your field, and yet you say it is not generous at all? There's also the additional circumstance here that the OP is no longer at the same institution which might put some limits on funding options. | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 18:56 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | 50% funding is not generous at all. In our department (UK) nobody will expect a PhD student to fund their own trip; they can expect to be 100% reimbursed. In Germany, however, considerable self-funding contribution was expected, but there, in many disciplines, PhD students in half-funded positions are expected to work full-time. | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 18:15 | history | answered | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |