Overview
The Foundation’s Physiotherapy Special Interested Group (PSIG) is offering a scholarship of $2,500 for a suitably interested and qualified physiotherapist to attend the International Children’s Continence Society (ICCS) conference 2025. It is envisaged that this scholarship will also be offered in 2026 and 2027.
In 2025 the meeting is a combined one of European Society of Paediatric Urology (ESPU), SPU, ICCS, AAP/SOU, SIUP and SFU and is the 35th Congress of the ESPU. It will be held in Vienna from 3rd-6th September. Online registration is open on May 5th 2025 so the successful applicant will be announced at the National Conference (NCIO) during the physiotherapy forum.
Terms and Conditions
Applications will be judged by a panel of 3 suitably qualified and independent members. Applications should be of no more 500 words and cover the following points:
- The applicant should be a member of both the Foundation and PSIG
- Post graduate qualifications in pelvic health including from which institution and when these were achieved
- Professional development activities in paediatric continence – where appropriate, list where these were accessed and when.
- Place of work where you practise paediatric continence care currently, and previously if relevant, and whether this is public, private, sole practitioner of multidisciplinary.
- Research interests you have and the research activities in which you have been involved, and in what capacity.
- Your length of membership of CHA and ICCS and involvement in contributing to the implementation of the Continence Health Australia (CFA) strategic pillars.
The successful applicant will, on return, be obliged to, in the next 3 months:
- Plan with the CHA PTSIG committee a 30-45 minute webinar to the PSIG members on relevant presentations of interest at the conference and present this within 6 months of the conference finishing, or at the discretion of the committee.
- write and submit an update on a particular topic or an overview of the conference to the ANZC Journal
The successful applicant must present to the committee invoices of how the grant money in its entirety was used.
If for some unforeseen reason the successful applicant is not able to attend the conference as planned, the committee must be informed, and the money must be returned to the Foundation’s PSIG immediately. Alternatively, if the applicant was not able to attend, and if the committee deems it appropriate, the applicant may attend the ICCS meeting in 2026.
Applications must be submitted online by April 30th.