ANZCCART Student Award

This award is being offered in association with the ANZCCART conference 2008 entitled "Blue sky to deep water: the reality and the promise", for the best abstract of a paper provided by an honours or post-graduate student in New Zealand or Australia. The conference will be held in Auckland from 29 June to 1 July 2008.

Applicants should submit a 300-word abstract on an animal welfare theme relevant to the conference  and to the objectives of ANZCCART.

ANZCCART's objectives are:

• To promote excellence in the care of animals used in research and teaching and thereby minimise any discomfort that they may experience;
• To ensure that the outcomes of the scientific uses of animals are worthwhile;
• To promote the Three Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement) as they apply to the use of animals for scientific purposes;
• To foster informed and responsible discussion and debate within the scientific and wider community regarding the scientific uses of animals.

The award is open to all disciplines and is worth $1000 to offset costs of conference attendance, and will be presented during the conference.

Conference registration will be free to the winning student.

The successful applicant will be required to give a 10-minute paper on their winning topic at the conference.

Applications should include full name, postal address, phone and fax numbers, and email address, and should be submitted electronically by 30 April 2008 to:

Executive officer, ANZCCART
anzccart@rsnz.org