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Travel Fellowship

The Society offers up to five travel fellowships per annum for eligible trainees and to CCT residents and portfolio aspirants to present their work at an international meeting.
Each fellowship has a value of £600.

The Award

The Travelling Fellow award is an annual award made by the North of England Ophthalmological Society to trainee members in the North of England. The purpose of the award is to providing funding to cover registration fees, hotel, and travel costs to help trainees go to foreign conferences and present their work. For 2025 the amount is a fixed sum of £600.

Process of the Award

Trainees (including CCT residents and portfolio aspirants) who are members of NEOS are invited to submit abstracts of papers, posters or videos they plan to present at an international meeting. These abstracts are for work to be submitted or in preparation for submission. The abstract must be accompanied by an indication of which international meeting it is destined for. If the abstract is already accepted a copy of the notice of acceptance must be included with the application. If it is not accepted, and is in submission, then once acceptance has been given this notice must be forwarded to NEOS.

Entrants may submit one abstract for consideration in a twelve-month period (irrespective of whether an award is made or not).

The winner is notified via email, so please provide a valid email address.

If awarded, the Society will send a conditional offer of the Award subject to proof of acceptance of the abstract from the meeting organisers and proof of registration/copy of conference fees receipt to attend the meeting. Once attendance at the meeting has taken place, NEOS will send the money and certificate to the winner. 

Travelling Fellows’ responsibilities and conditions of the Award

On receipt of the award the Travelling Fellow must:

be a current member of NEOS

declare the support of NEOS on their presentation, eposter or video (and supply a copy of the relevant media to NEOS for approval)

present their work to NEOS at a meeting within one year of the grant of the Award

ensure the research work presented has been wholly undertaken in a department of ophthalmology affiliated to the North of England Ophthalmological Society or in a university or research institute directly affiliated to that department

If for whatever reason the Travelling Fellow cannot fulfil any of the above criteria the Prize must be returned to NEOS. The Travel Award is subject to review by the NEOS Council and can be withdrawn at any time.

2024
Miss Emily Stedman – Royal Hallamshire Hospital
4-year outcome data for Trabex + procedures
European Glaucoma Society, Dublin 1st- 4th June 2024

Miss Christine Putri – Royal Hallamshire Hospital
A decade of experience with Coleman micro-fat graft for orbital volume augmentation in postenucleation and evisceration sockets?
39th APAO Congress in February 2024 in Bali

Dr Boon Lin – Sunderland Eye Infirmary
Reducing the use of fluorinated gases in vitreoretinal surgery
39th APAO Congress in February 2024 in Bali

2023
Miss Ruth Jones – Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Eyecee One Preloaded Intraocular Lens – Are glaucoma and ocular hypertensive patients more at risk of significant post operative rises in Intraocular Pressures?
ESCRS 2023 Congress in September 2023

Miss Yunzi Chen, Cumberland Infirmary
Real-world long-term outcomes of selective laser trabeculoplasty
World Glaucoma Congress, 28-30 June 2023

Mr Dan Maskill – St James’ University Hospital, Leeds
Repeat Corneal Collagen Cross Linking After Failure of Primary Crosslinking in Keratoconus, The Leeds Experience
EU Cornea Meeting, Barcelona, 26-28th May 2023

2022
Dr Hayou (Derek) Wang – Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Practice of Immediate Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery Since Covid‐19: The Sheffield Experience
40th ESCRS Congress

Mr Arthur Okonkwo, Stepping Hill Hospital
Specialist Nurse-Led Cross-Linking Service For Keratoconus, The Leeds Experience
ESCRS 2022: 16th-20th September 2022

Mr Shane Liu, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
Manchester eye removal study: 15 years of real-world eye removal experience in a tertiary centre
European Society of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2022: 15-17 September 2022

2019
Dr Abigail Hopkins – York Hospital
An unusual case of intradural haemangioma of the optic nerve mimicking optic neuritis
19th EURETINA Congress

2018
Mr Darren Ting – Sunderland Eye Infirmary
The Research Attitudes, Perceived Barriers to Conducting Research, and Views on Trainee Research Networks amongst the Ophthalmology Trainees
36th World Ophthalmology Congress, June 2018, Barcelona, Spain

Dr Claire Tomkinson – Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
Early Changes in retinal thickness when using intravitreal Ranibizubmab for age-related macular degeneration
EVER international conference, October 2018, Nice, France

2017
Dr Stephanie Chiu- Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Comparison of different surgical techniques for secondary intraocular lens implantation for aphakia without capsular support
ESCRS, October 2017, Lisbon, Portugal