Overview
Under the auspices of the Robert Cormack Bequest fund, the Royal Society of Edinburgh is pleased to invite applications for a limited number of undergraduate Summer Vacation Research Scholarships in the field of Astronomy. These may include one Piazzi Smyth Bequest Research Scholarship for work clearly related to mountain top observing/data.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must be full time undergraduates (normally up to and including the summer before final year), be nominated by a Department in one of the Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and have a class record indicative of good research potential. There is no restriction on home institution or nationality.
A Scholarship may be held at any of the Scottish HEIs but not necessarily at the applicant's home HEI. Students interested in holding a scholarship at another institution are advised to contact that institution at the earliest opportunity. Projects will be specified by the Institution and must be astronomical in content. The Scholar must be involved in original research work requiring initiative on his or her part (for example, library survey projects are not supported).
Value of this scholarship
The value of each Cormack Scholarship is £100 per week and of the Piazzi Smyth Scholarship £120 per week, and the maximum length of each Scholarship is six weeks. Therefore the maximum values of these Scholarships are £600 and £720 respectively.
A Scholarship cannot be held in conjunction with other vacation awards (eg Carnegie, Nuffield) though additional Departmental support is permissible. Normally not more than one Scholarship will be made to an individual during their degree. Applicants should indicate on the form if they are applying for other funds for similar vacation scholarship schemes.
The financial support of the Royal Society of Edinburgh is limited to the amount of the student subsistence Scholarship, and excludes further overheads, bench fees and the like.
Form Submission
It is essential that all three forms i.e. Scholar's application form, Project Supervisor's form and Academic Referee's form, are completed and returned to the Research Awards Coordinator by the closing date.
The three forms should be merged and submitted by the Project Supervisor as an email attachment to resfells@royalsoced.org.uk. Alternatively, the three forms can be printed, completed in typescript and returned with TEN copies of each form to the Research Awards Coordinator at the address given below. It is the Project Supervisor's responsibility to ensure that the forms are returned, by whichever method, to the Coordinator by the closing date of MONDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2010. If submission is made by email then a single, signed paper set of forms should also be sent to the Research Awards Coordinator by the closing date.
The Project Supervisor and academic referee must not be the same person.
Final decisions will be announced by letter in APRIL 2010 and publicly at the Cormack Meeting at the University of Dundee, to which successful applicants will be invited.
Report
A Report approximately 10 pages in length, and in no case more than 20, including all figures and tables on the results of the work undertaken during the tenure of the Scholarship will be prepared by the Scholar and submitted by the Supervisor. (Should, exceptionally, a lot of graphic or even video material on results be thought crucial to the report, they should be submitted as separate files) This report must indicate very clearly where it is providing a review of previous work, whether and where it uses existing material such as codes, precisely what the Scholar did her/his-self, and how s/he sees the future direction of further work in the area. On submission of the report, the supervisor of the vacation project should also submit a short commentary on the work enclosed, avoiding comment on the student themselves, but explaining the degree to which the work is in his/her view the students own or original ideas, versus prescriptive application of an existing code/project, and the level at which the work is to be disseminated, e.g. published in its own right, used in future work etc.
Application and How to apply
Application form can be downloaded here Word
Cormack Poster PDF
Completed application forms should be returned to The Research Awards Coordinator, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22/26 George Street, EDINBURGH EH2 2PQ or resfells@royalsoced.org.uk by Monday 22 February 2010. Please note that all application forms shall be acknowledged.
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
Under the auspices of the Robert Cormack Bequest fund, the Royal Society of Edinburgh is pleased to invite applications for a limited number of undergraduate Summer Vacation Research Scholarships in the field of Astronomy. These may include one Piazzi Smyth Bequest Research Scholarship for work clearly related to mountain top observing/data.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must be full time undergraduates (normally up to and including the summer before final year), be nominated by a Department in one of the Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and have a class record indicative of good research potential. There is no restriction on home institution or nationality.
A Scholarship may be held at any of the Scottish HEIs but not necessarily at the applicant's home HEI. Students interested in holding a scholarship at another institution are advised to contact that institution at the earliest opportunity. Projects will be specified by the Institution and must be astronomical in content. The Scholar must be involved in original research work requiring initiative on his or her part (for example, library survey projects are not supported).
Value of this scholarship
The value of each Cormack Scholarship is £100 per week and of the Piazzi Smyth Scholarship £120 per week, and the maximum length of each Scholarship is six weeks. Therefore the maximum values of these Scholarships are £600 and £720 respectively.
A Scholarship cannot be held in conjunction with other vacation awards (eg Carnegie, Nuffield) though additional Departmental support is permissible. Normally not more than one Scholarship will be made to an individual during their degree. Applicants should indicate on the form if they are applying for other funds for similar vacation scholarship schemes.
The financial support of the Royal Society of Edinburgh is limited to the amount of the student subsistence Scholarship, and excludes further overheads, bench fees and the like.
Form Submission
It is essential that all three forms i.e. Scholar's application form, Project Supervisor's form and Academic Referee's form, are completed and returned to the Research Awards Coordinator by the closing date.
The three forms should be merged and submitted by the Project Supervisor as an email attachment to resfells@royalsoced.org.uk. Alternatively, the three forms can be printed, completed in typescript and returned with TEN copies of each form to the Research Awards Coordinator at the address given below. It is the Project Supervisor's responsibility to ensure that the forms are returned, by whichever method, to the Coordinator by the closing date of MONDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2010. If submission is made by email then a single, signed paper set of forms should also be sent to the Research Awards Coordinator by the closing date.
The Project Supervisor and academic referee must not be the same person.
Final decisions will be announced by letter in APRIL 2010 and publicly at the Cormack Meeting at the University of Dundee, to which successful applicants will be invited.
Report
A Report approximately 10 pages in length, and in no case more than 20, including all figures and tables on the results of the work undertaken during the tenure of the Scholarship will be prepared by the Scholar and submitted by the Supervisor. (Should, exceptionally, a lot of graphic or even video material on results be thought crucial to the report, they should be submitted as separate files) This report must indicate very clearly where it is providing a review of previous work, whether and where it uses existing material such as codes, precisely what the Scholar did her/his-self, and how s/he sees the future direction of further work in the area. On submission of the report, the supervisor of the vacation project should also submit a short commentary on the work enclosed, avoiding comment on the student themselves, but explaining the degree to which the work is in his/her view the students own or original ideas, versus prescriptive application of an existing code/project, and the level at which the work is to be disseminated, e.g. published in its own right, used in future work etc.
Application and How to apply
Application form can be downloaded here Word
Cormack Poster PDF
Completed application forms should be returned to The Research Awards Coordinator, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22/26 George Street, EDINBURGH EH2 2PQ or resfells@royalsoced.org.uk by Monday 22 February 2010. Please note that all application forms shall be acknowledged.
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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