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PIF members to 2025 RANZCP Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry Conference
PIF members from Australia and New Zealand are invited to apply for a sponsorship to attend the RANZCP 2025 Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry Conference, held in Melbourne at the Novotel on Collins, 270 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 from Wednesday 13 August to Saturday 16 August 2025.
Eligible PIF members must be:
- medical students or postgraduate year 1 and 2 doctors or postgraduate year 3+ doctors excluding those who are trainees and Fellows of another speciality; and
- residing in Australia or NZ.
Up to twenty (20) sponsorship places are on offer for eligible PIF members, which includes:
- Full conference registration including welcome reception.
- Travel support to claim for flights or road travel costs, as well as accommodation for eligible PIF scholars:
- Reimbursement of up to $400 for VIC-based PIF scholars who reside more than 200km (one-way) from the conference location.
- Reimbursement of up to $1000 for PIF scholars who reside outside of VIC, including NZ.
- Opportunity to attend an exclusive networking event, hosted by the Committee on the evening of Tuesday 12 August.
*The travel grant will be reimbursed post conference attendance, upon the provision of supporting receipts/tax invoices up to the specified grant value.
Sponsorship recipients must attend the full program from Wednesday 13 August to Saturday 16 August.
Meals outside of the conference program are not included in this sponsorship.
Please ensure that you read the scholarship Terms and Conditions below before applying.
Applications close on Sunday 22 June. Outcomes will be announced by late June.
For any enquiries, please email pif@ranzcp.org.
The scholarship support is made available by the RANZCP's Bi-national Committee of Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry. Two scholarship places to PIF NZ members are offered by the PIF NZ program.
The RANZCP has received Australian Government funding under the Psychiatry Workforce Program to deliver the PIF program.
Terms & Conditions
Eligibility
Scholarship applicants must meet the eligibility criteria outlined.
Travel Expenses
Travel grants will be offered to eligible scholarship applicants and reimbursed post- Conference attendance, upon the provision of supporting receipts/tax invoices. Travel grant does not include meals outside of the Conference program.
Leave Arrangement
Leave arrangement: Sponsorship recipients are required to attend the Conference in full and are responsible for securing time off from study/work in order to attend.
Post-Conference Reflection
Post-Conference reflection: Scholarship recipients will be required to submit a short reflection on their event attendance and learning outcomes, post-Conference attendance.
Photography and recording
Images and/or voices of attendees may be recorded during the Conference for use in RANZCP website, communications and media, including social media. If scholarship recipients do not wish for their image or voice to be publicised email to: pif@ranzcp.org.
Conference T&Cs
Review the T&C of the Conference here (scroll down to the bottom of the webpage).
Contact Details
Scholarship recipients contact details may be shared with other PIF Conference attendees, for further information contact pif@ranzcp.org
