IWRS Awards
Our small meetings grant program facilitates in-person or virtual meetings, workshops, or conferences, focused on insect (or understudied invertebrate) welfare research. These events should be considered ‘small’ – meaning equal to or less than three work and/or weekend days in length. The event should also be standalone – we do not fund series of events.
The Insect Welfare Research Society aims to encourage graduate student scholars engaging in evidence-based, theoretically-grounded research on any aspect of invertebrate sentience or welfare. These awards will be given to a graduate students whose research has the greatest potential to make a substantive contribution to these fields.
Amateur entomologists, arachnologists, and others contribute significant knowledge through biological recording and collections work, but some methods used may have negative welfare consequences for the animals. This award supports amateur recorders in innovating and testing improvements via the 3Rs, covering supplies, travel, and assistance with study design and reporting.
The IWRS Teaching Innovation Award supports instructors developing new approaches to teaching insect or invertebrate biology that incorporate the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, and refinement).
Our small meetings grant program facilitates in-person or virtual meetings, workshops, or conferences, focused on insect (or understudied invertebrate) welfare research. These events should be considered ‘small’ – meaning equal to or less than three work and/or weekend days in length. The event should also be standalone – we do not fund series of events.