The Outreach Scholarship is sponsored by the SQA Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting. The scholarship shall be provided to a registered Outreach Member and shall include all Annual Meeting and Quality College registration fees for the year in which it is awarded, up to six nights of hotel accommodations, and up to an additional $2,000 to cover travel expenses (documented with receipts) for the SQA Annual Meeting held in the same year that the scholarship is awarded. It will also include the Annual Meeting Online Library Recordings at no cost for both the winner and the alternate. The purpose of the scholarship is to promote knowledge of research quality assurance in low-middle income countries.
Applications shall be accepted every year, but the SQA Board of Directors may decide to defer the scholarship until the next year if the number and/or quality of applications received are deemed insufficient.
The selection criteria are as follows:
- Applicants shall be Outreach members of SQA, in good standing, and shall have been Outreach members for at least one year.
- Self nominations shall be accepted.
- Applicants shall not have previously received the award.
- Applicants shall be able to attend the SQA Annual Meeting in the corresponding year.
- Applicant shall have a financial need to attend (i.e., neither they nor their company is able to pay for their registration fees and travel).