The SSA Vic & Tas Branch is proud to support our early career and student members with financial assistance to attend the Australian Statistical Conference (ASC) 2025, taking place in Perth, Western Australia, from 1–5 December 2025.

We are offering two types of awards: the SSA Vic & Tas Branch Travel Top-Up Award and the Recognition of Impact Award.

✨ Travel Top-Up Award ✨

SSA Vic & Tas is offering five Travel Top-Up Awards of $1,000 (AUD) each to financially assist members attending and presenting at ASC 2025.

Successful applicants for the Travel Top-Up Award will be chosen via a random draw.

✨ Recognition of Impact Award ✨

SSA Vic & Tas is awarding one Recognition of Impact Award of $2,500 (AUD) to a member attending and presenting at ASC 2025.

The Recognition of Impact Award recognises an outstanding student or early career researcher in statistics or data science whose field of work and/or research is challenging conventions, creating change in knowledge or practice of statistics, and is benefiting the Australian and/or global community.

How to apply

To be eligible for the awards, the applicant must:

1. Be a member of SSA Vic & Tas at the time of application. (Membership is only $20 for students!)

2. Be an early career or student statistician (check here for definition).

3. Be presenting a poster or a talk at ASC 2025.

4. Fill out the Google form here.

5. Submit the completed Google form by Friday, 22 August 2025 at 11:59 pm AEST. Late applications will not be considered.

Successful applicants will be notified on or shortly after Friday, 29 August 2025.

For more information:

Members seeking more information may email vic.branch@statsoc.org.au with the subject line: “SSA Vic & Tas ASC 2025 Awards Application”.

If you experience any accessibility issues while completing the Google form, please email us to discuss how we can assist you with lodging your application.