The IATEFL Gillian Porter Ladousse Scholarship

The Teacher Trainers and Educators SIG (TTEd SIG) Conference Fund has been set up to enable a teacher trainer and/or a trainee, who would not normally be able to do so, to attend the annual IATEFL conference. It has been set up initially with funds from the TTEd SIG. It will be topped up as and when it is possible to do so. Contributions from members of the profession are always welcome.

The driving force behind the Conference Fund was Gillian Porter Ladousse who was Co-ordinator of the SIG at the time. Gillian felt passionately that the breadth and depth of knowledge shared each year at the Annual Conference should be available to trainers from less financially buoyant parts of the world. The fund was named the Gillian Porter Ladousse Scholarship after Gillian’s death in October 2002.

One or two scholarships are usually awarded each year, one to a trainer and/or one to a trainee. In the case of two scholarships being awarded, priority will be given to a trainer and trainee who work together, but all other applications will be carefully considered on merit.

All applicants must be individual members of IATEFL.

No member can be awarded the scholarship more than once.

Applications for the scholarships must be made by the end of September. Applications should be marked on the envelope: Gillian Porter Ladousse Scholarship Fund", and should be sent to the IATEFL office.

To be considered applicants are asked to:

• send a brief curriculum vitae and passport-sized photograph
• send a brief statement of how attending the IATEFL Annual Conference would benefit them, with specific reference to trainer/trainee programmes carried out and/or planned in their local context (max. 1000 words)
• provide a letter of recommendation from an employer, an established member of the profession or a member of IATEFL of at least three years’ standing.

Successful applicants will be required to sign a letter committing them to: a) writing up their experience for the TTEd SIG newsletter, to be submitted by June following the conference; and b) writing an article on how attending the IATEFL Annual Conference affected their programmes of work in their local context, to be submitted before the following IATEFL Annual Conference.

The sum available for the scholarship(s) will be approximately £400. A maximum amount awarded to any one member will be £250 plus a free conference registration.

The Gillian Porter Ladousse Conference Fund Committee will decide at a meeting in October each year which of the applicants are to be awarded a scholarship. This committee consists of TTEd SIG co-ordinator, one other member of the SIG committee, the President or Vice-President of IATEFL and the SIG representative or a delegated IATEFL committee member.

If applications are not of sufficient merit, the amount of any scholarship not awarded may be held over to the following year, when extra scholarships may be awarded.