Student Awards

Each year, the ESA offers student prizes, student research awards, travel grants for conference attendance, and a wide range of student prizes at ESA conferences.

Students are permitted to apply for more than one of these awards. Please refer to the guidelines below for more information on eligibility.

ESA policy on awarding multiple grants or prizes

ESA prefers to spread the available awards across a range of students. Therefore, each person can win only one of the major student prizes (Jill Landsberg Trust Fund Scholarship; Fundamental Ecology Award; Applied Forest Ecology Scholarship). A student who has previously won one of these awards will not be considered for either of the other awards in the same or subsequent years.

This does not apply to Student Research Awards, Holsworth grants or conference travel grants.

A student can be awarded both a Student Research Award and one of the major student prizes, either in the same year, or in different years, provided the funds requested are to cover different costs associated with their project/s. However, each person can only win a Student Research Award once. Any Student Research Award applications received from people who have previously received a Student Research Award in any year will be declined without review.

A student can be awarded both a Holsworth grant and one of the major student prizes, either in the same year, or in different years, provided the funds requested are to cover different costs associated with their project/s.

Having been awarded a student travel grant does not affect eligibility for the major student prizes, Holsworth grants or the Student Research Awards.