Plan family-friendly work trips
Taking your family on work trips can be stressful, but help is available to reduce the stress and maximize your enjoyment.
Academia involves travel, whether to attend a conference or to meet international colleagues. When you travel for work, it is not always practical or desirable to leave your children behind. Here we provide resources to make your next work trip family-friendly, from choosing the best airline to fly to picking kid friendly conferences and destinations.
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Interview with Anna CohenMiller on attending conferences with kids.
Resources for academic parents traveling with kids.
Traveling Without The Kids
Global
This blog piece from Parents Magazine provides some key things to consider and prepare for when you are faced with leaving your child at home when you go to a conference or on a research trip.
Conferences & Childcare
Global
To get a handle on whether conference organisers are beginning to take the need to be family-friendly more seriously, these articles look at initiatives to support parents at conferences and the prevalence of childcare at conferences across the US in 2018.
Conferences & Kids
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This article explores the challenges of taking kids to conferences and how to make it work for you. The author also provides a list of funding opportunities focused on covering the childcare costs you may incur when attending a conference.
Childcare Grants for Conferences & Work Travel
Global
Women in Cell Biology is an advocacy group that promotes gender equity in the field of cell biology. One of their initiatives is providing childcare grants for academics attending conferences with their kids (Global $)
ORPHEUS Conference – The Association of European Biomedical and Health Science Faculties and Institutions provides child care grants for their annual conference. Julie Gould provides a quick summary of her experiences attending the 2018 conference with kids (EU+)
Entomological Society of America Conference provides childcare grants (USA+)
UK Microbiology Society Conference provides childcare grants (UK+)
British Society for Cell Biology provides grants to cover childcare for members presenting at a scientific conference or meeting (UK)
Capstone Editing provides a carer grant for childcare or similar support for academics attending conferences or traveling for work (AU&NZ)
Georgina Sweet Award For Women In Quantitative Biomedical Science provides grants that cover a range of logistical costs (AU)
Australian Mathematical Society offers a grant that covers childcare costs for members (AU)
Franklin Women provide a grant for childcare or similar support for academics attending conferences or traveling for work (AU)
Conference-provided Childcare
Choosing an Airline
Flying with Baby
Flying with a baby describes itself as the ‘utlimate guide to family travel’, and we certainly think it is a life saviour when travelling with a little one. It provides lots of guidance and tips, including a great summary table of different airlines and their bassinets so you can check whether your child will fit!
Childcare Services for Conferences
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Accent
Accent is an organisation that specialises in providing childcare at conferences in USA, Canada & Caribbean. If you are organising a conference, this organisation may be able to help you. Note we have not used or tested Accent on Children Services and are in no way endorsing their services.