Grace Waterhouse Fellowship

The Grace Waterhouse Fellowship has been established to encourage links between the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (SASPP) and the British Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP), with a particular focus on plant pathologists in the early stages of their careers. The fellowship is awarded competitively no more than once a year to a junior plant pathologist with high potential. Members of the SASPP in the early stages of their career, studying in a southern African country, may apply for support for a working visit of between one and three months to a laboratory in the UK. The aim is to encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary research, to enable students to acquire new techniques, and to make new contacts. The fellowship supports travel, accommodation and other personal costs that are not covered by the student's stipend, as well as a contribution to consumables which are essential for the applicant's proposed research in the host laboratory. Applicants must be members of SASPP for at least one year and registered for an MSc by research or PhD at the time the Fellowship award is taken up, while the UK host must have been a member of the BSPP for at least two years.