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Travel Awards

The Trust funds both individual and group travel awards to enhance recipients' personal development through attendance at conferences and workshops or study visits.

See below for examples of the type of award made by the Trust, together with some reports, posters etc produced by recipients of Travel Awards.
(We also welcome being tagged into related articles posted on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) etc, using @DouglasBomfordTrust.)

2024

Sven Peets attendance at DEWESoft conference

Report

HAU Collaboration visit to Mississippi State University

Report

2023

DBT Travel Award - Trip to FIRA Robotics show in Toulouse

Report

Emmanuel Atai attendance at the EBNet Early Career Researcher Conference (Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy) – Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh

Report

2022

Lucy Mitchell: Travel Award for Chile Study Tour (Young Farmers)

Report

Comment by the Trust 

Deniz Arslan: Travel award to attend World Congress of Soil Science 2022

Poster

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Barnabas Pickford: Travel award to attend SIMA 2022

Report

Marta Sanzo Miro: Travel award to attend World Potato Congress, Dublin

Report

Group of UCL students: Visit to August Farms (Trust Chair)

Report

2021

Students' Attendance at AgEng 2021 and AFCP Student Forum

2020

Argyll College: Group Study tour for students to observe agricultural and horticultural machinery involved in food production in the agriculture and horticulture sectors, and attend workshops

Harper Adams University: Group Enterprise project to carryout a research project for CLAAS GmbH and their advanced development department.

2019

Victoria Tennant: Funding to study sustainability of methods of  'vertical farming' through study visits and attendance at Milan conference

Thesis

Liliano Castillo Villamor: Travel to Colombia to test new method, based on intelligent tracking of data distributions, to identify anomalies within crop fields over time

Report
Poster (in Spanish but nice graphics!)     

Karen Rial Lovera: Travel to attend Precision Agriculture conference 2019   

Harper Adams University Student Group: to attend Robotics Workshop 2019

Harper Adams University Student Group: to attend CIMA 2019

2018

Harper Adams University Student Group: to attend EIMA 2018

Natasa Orphanidou: Funding to attend Conference on Neural Information Processing

Poster

Tilly Lenartowicz: To support Engineers without Borders placement in Rwanda

John Ellis: To attend Theoretical Biology conference Portugal

Karen Rial Lovera: Travel to attend Precision Agriculture conference 2018