Support for MERGA Members

MERGA provides financial assistance to its members, for conference attendance, in the form of "bursaries" to assist recent research graduates, students, and teachers to attend each MERGA conference. A person can be awarded only one MERGA bursary of each type, and only one bursary per conference.

Applicants must be members of MERGA. Elligibility criteria and application forms are available on the MERGA website.

MERGA Awards

The Early Career Award
In order to encourage new researchers in mathematics education, MERGA sponsors an award to an author in the early part of her/his career. The award, for excellence in writing up and presenting a piece of mathematics education research, consists of a plaque and a prize of AUD $500 and is presented at the annual conference.

The Beth Southwell Practical Implications Award (BSPIA)
The Beth Southwell Practical Implications Award is designed to stimulate the writing of papers on research related to mathematics teaching or learning or mathematics curricula. Application for the award is open to all members of MERGA who are registered for the conference. Authors who make use of the Early Bird scheme for conference paper submission will not be eligible for the BSPIA. The award consists of a plaque plus AUD $500. The award is named in honour of MERGA's esteemed late member Beth Southwell.

For information about eligibility and how to apply for these awards Click here

Conference Bursaries
MERGA provides financial assistance to its members, for conference attendance, in the form of "bursaries" to assist recent research graduates, students, and teachers to attend each MERGA conference. A person can be awarded only one MERGA bursary of each type, and only one bursary per conference. For more details, click here.

• Research Graduate Bursaries
• Student Bursaries
• Teacher Bursaries