The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for a DPC member to attend the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) 2025 Conference, 29-31 July, taking place in person at at Durham University and online via the hybrid-conferencing platform Pheedloop.
This Career Development Fund grant will cover 100% of conference registration and provide an additional contribution towards travel and accommodation if attending in person. More details about the grant are provided below, and applications are welcomed from DPC members until the grant application deadline of 7:00 UTC on 22 April 2025.
About the DCDC25 Conference
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) is an international, cross-sectoral conference, hosted each year by The National Archives (UK), the British Library and Jisc. Founded in 2013, it brings together delegates from the gallery, library, archive, and museum sectors and the academic community (GLAMA) with the key aim of promoting cross-sector collaboration and knowledge sharing between communities. The physical and virtual meetings attract over 500 delegates from across the UK and around the world.
The DCDC 2025 Conference (DCDC25), 29-31 July 2025, will be a fully-hybrid event, held in person at the Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, UK and online via the hybrid-conferencing platform Pheedloop. The theme of DCDC25 is Choose Your Own Future: Resilient Communities and Sustainable Solutions: “A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come together, no matter where you are in the world or the stage of your career, to choose your own future: to celebrate what is already being achieved and debate what more could be done, to explore the challenges we face across the GLAMA sector and to work together as a community to find sustainable solutions.”
To find out more, you can view the hybrid DCDC25 programme here and more information about the DCDC25 conference is available at https://dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/.
About the DPC Career Development Fund Grant
This DPC Career Development Fund grant will cover 100% of the fees for online or in-person conference registration.
The grant will also provide funding to help with expenses incurred if attending in person. This may be used towards any one or all of the following expenses:
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Hotel booking for up to three nights (Monday 28th July – Thursday 31st July) based on the suggested/preferred hotels list of conference organizers
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Contribution towards travel expenses (e.g., economy flight, train, public transport to/from Durham)
The amount of funding is at the discretion of the review panel and will be explicitly stated in the grant offer letter to successful applicants.
For more information on bursaries being offered by DCDC25 organisers, please visit https://dcdcconference.co.uk/bursaries/.
Eligibility
DPC Members are eligible to apply for this Career Development Fund grant. This grant is not available to non-members. Prospective members are eligible if their membership application is approved by the application deadline of 07:00 UTC on 22nd April 2025. For information about joining the DPC, see https://www.dpconline.org/about/join-us.
Please note that only one grant is available per DPC member. DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised grant for DCDC25 (e.g., one application for a person representing a DPC member organization). We recommend that any member organization which supports an application discusses appropriate outcomes and benefits for the organization prior to submission. Moreover, because only one grant is available per member institution, we recommend that applicants ensure that they are not inadvertently competing with colleagues.
For more details about eligibility and criteria for the grants, please read the full Career Development Fund Guidelines. Applicants are also encouraged to contact the Training and Grants Manager, Amy Currie (amy.currie@dpconline.org), should any questions arise.
How to Apply
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The application form for this grant and the full Career Development Fund Guidelines are available on the DPC website’s Career Development Fund page.
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned to Amy Currie (amy.currie@dpconline.org), accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor via email or attached letter, by 7:00 UTC on 22nd April 2025 (click here to see the application deadline in your local time).
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DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised grant. There cannot be multiple applicants representing the same DPC member, so please coordinate with colleagues to ensure one application is submitted.
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Applicants are encouraged to email any questions about the grant or process to amy.currie@dpconline.org.
Important Dates
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned, accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor, by 7:00 UTC on 22nd April 2025 (click here to see the deadline in your local time).
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Successful applicants will be notified on or before 20th May 2025.
Further Information
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For information relating to the DCDC 2025 conference, see https://dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/
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For questions relating to the grant programme, email amy.currie@dpconline.org.
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For a list of other Career Development Fund grants available to DPC Members, see https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/prof-development/cdfund/dpc-grant-calendar
Acknowledgements
The Career Development Fund is sponsored by the DPC’s Supporters who recognize the benefit and seek to support a connected and trained digital preservation workforce. We gratefully acknowledge their financial support to this programme and ask applicants to acknowledge that support in any communications that result. At the time of writing, the Career Development Fund is supported by Arkivum, Artefactual Systems Inc., boxxe, Cerabyte, Evolved Binary, Ex Libris, Iron Mountain, Libnova, Max Communications, Preferred Media, Preservica and Simon P Wilson. A full list of supporters is online here.