The 2009 conference

Next year's conference will take place on 24-26 March 2009, in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Delegates and speakers come from all over the world to take part.

Organisers

The Student Conference on Conservation Science is run by:
Andrew Balmford¹
Rhys Green^{1, 2}
Rosie Trevelyan³
Stephanie Prior ¹

Organising Committee

Bill Adams⁴
Guy Cowlishaw⁵
Lincoln Fishpool⁶
Shahina Ghazanfar⁷
Katherine Homewood⁸
Nigel Leader-Williams⁹
Bill Sutherland¹

More information

If you would like to make an essential enquiry please email: sccs@zoo.cam.ac.uk

1 - Conservation Science Group
     University of Cambridge, Department of      Zoology
2 - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
3 - Tropical Biology Association
4 - Department of Geography, University of      Cambridge
5 - Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of      London
6 - Birdlife International
7 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
8 - Department of Anthropology, University College London

9 - DICE, University of Kent

Plenary speakers

Professor Kingsley Dixon (Botonaic Garden and Parks Authority, Western Australia)
Professor Claire Kremen (University of California, Berkeley USA)
Michael McCarthy (The Independent, UK)
Professor Callum Roberts (University of York, UK)

Your contribution

The most important part of the three-day programme will be poster sessions and 33 fifteen minute talks by students on any aspect of conservation science. Presentations of work in progress, from a broad range of countries, and from economic and social as well as biological aspects of conservation, will all be welcome. Besides the posters and talks, there will also be workshops, presentations by conservation NGOs and agencies and social events designed to give participants the opportunity to make new contacts in their own and related disciplines. Prizes are awarded to posters and talks of outstanding quality and relevance to conservation.

View our page on how to apply for the conference and prepare talks and posters.
If your presentation has been accepted, view our guide to help prepare talks and posters.

Costs and benefits

The conference fee, including registration, lunches, tea and coffee and three evening events, is £50. Accommodation and breakfast will be available in St. Catharine's College at a highly subsidised rate of £15 per person per night. Reasonably priced evening meals are available nearby.

We've been able to keep costs as low as possible, thanks to sponsorship by a number of organisations.

Applications

Please fill in and return the application form by 15 November. On it, you are invited to submit a short abstract of your proposed talk or poster, but it is not essential to present a talk or poster in order to attend.

Bursaries

If you are coming from a developing country or eastern Europe you can also apply for a bursary (see application form) to assist with travel and other costs, but please note that we are only able to help a small number of applicants and cannot help those alrady based in Western Europe or North America.

Internships

Students from developing countries and eastern Europe may apply for an internship to enable them extend their visit to the UK after the conference in order to carry out mutually beneficial work with a conservation organisation or academic institution. Please visit our internship page for more details.