Travel Awards, College Awards and Prizes:
Each year, a number of Awards, Funds and Prizes are available to students or graduates of the College. The awards and prizes available this year are listed below and applications are invited from eligible current and former students. Further details of each award can be found by clicking on the title of the award below. The closing date for applications is Friday 30th April 2010.
Application Form- Travel Awards and College Funds 2010
Application Form- College Awards and Prizes 2010
Travel Awards and College Funds 2010
Ethel
Beatrice Abrahams Travel Award
Number of Awards: 1 of £1,000.
Open to postgraduate students pursuing research or advanced studies
in Greek. Normally awarded for one year, but may be renewed annually
for a maximum of three years.
Lionel
Butler Travel Bursary
Number of Awards: 2 of £300 each.
Open to
undergraduate or postgraduate students. This bursary contributes towards
travel expenses, where travelling will enable the students to enhance
their academic work or broaden their experience. It cannot be used towards
conference expenses.
Helen
Cam Awards (History Students only)
Number of Awards: 1 of £2,000.
Open to postgraduate students of the College, other students who are
or have been registered at the College for a postgraduate programme
and to Research Fellows attached to the Department of History. Awards
are made in the fields of Medieval History and Legal and Constitutional
Modern Western European History and provide a contribution towards exceptional
research expenses.
Grenville
Cole Travel Bursary
Number of Awards: 1 of £100.
This bursary assists with travel expenses in the UK or abroad for worthwhile
extra-curricular activities.
Una Ellis-Fermor Award
(Postgraduate Students only)
Number of Awards: 2
of £2,000 each.
This award assists with expenses, including travelling, connected
with publication of scholarly work in the fields of English, Scandinavian
and Irish Drama.
Victoria
Hazlitt Memorial Fund
Number of Awards: 2 of £250 each.
Open to undergraduate (3rd year only) and postgraduate students in the
Department of Psychology. Students must have been enrolled onto the
programme for at least two academic sessions. Awarded to assist with
travel or research equipment.
Dame
Felicity Lott Bursary
Number of Awards : 1 of £1,500.
This bursary assists with the part payment of fees for further study
or professional training as a performer.
Peter
Marsh Prize in Ecology or Conservation (Biological Sciences Students
only)
Number of Awards: 1 of £400.
Normally
awarded to assist second-year undergraduates with field-trip expenses
for an Ecology or Conservation project.
Irene Marshall Scholarship
(Faculty of Science Students only)
Number of Awards: 1 of £2,000.
This scholarship may be awarded for travel within the Commonwealth for
study in the fields of Geography and Botany.
Edna
Purdie Memorial Fund
Number of Awards: 1 of £3,000.
This grant is intended to assist with completion or publication of scholarly
work in Germanic or English Studies.
The
Helen Shackleton Fund
Number of Awards: 6 of £2,000 each.
Open to undergraduate and postgraduate students. This bursary will be
awarded to assist students in their studies, usually towards foreign
travel connected to their academic work.
Dame Margaret Tuke Travel Bursary (Postgraduate Students only)
Number of Awards: 2 of £200 each.
This bursary is open to postgraduate students and contributes towards
expenses for travel abroad in connection with a definite cultural project
(not necessarily academic research).
Constance West Travel Award
(Modern Languages Students only)
Number of Awards: 1 of £150
This award contributes towards travel expenses, cost of further courses
and/or training for students of Modern Languages.
College Awards and Prizes 2010
Max
Cary Memorial Prize (Undergraduate Students only)
Number of Awards: 3 of £500 each.
This prize is awarded for work showing initiative and enterprise. Academic
work will not be usually considered, except if it is of exceptional
merit and originality.
Mary
Macpherson Prize (Undergraduate Students only)
Number of Awards:
2 of £1,000 each.
The prize will be awarded for the best piece of Journalsim appearing in either The Founder or The Orbital
Kathleen Nixon Award (Women
only - Professional or Vocational Training)
Number of Awards: 1 of £3,500.
Open to women graduating this academic year, the award is intended to
help with training for a profession or a vocation at the end of the
current degree programme. Normally awarded for one year.
DETAILS OF AWARDS
Conditions of Award.
- The value of the Award is not less than £50 and may be varied according to the income available and the merit of the applicants.
- The Award is given to
assist a graduate to continue research or advanced study in Greek.
The Student Awards Group will consider applications for the Award and consult the Head of the Department of Classics before making a recommendation to Academic Board. The holder of the Award must be registered at the College, as a full-time or part-time postgraduate, for a Higher Degree of the University of London, under the supervision of a teacher of the College.
This fund was set up to commemorate the life and work of Dr. Lionel Butler, Principal of the Royal Holloway College from 1973 to 1981.
Conditions of Award.
- A Travel Bursary is offered annually or as funds permit. This year, the bursary will be approximately £300. Applications are invited from undergraduate or postgraduate students of the College who consider that such an award, by contributing to the costs of travel, would enable them to enhance their academic work and/or broaden their experience.
- The Bursary is not available to cover conference expenses.
- A short report on the travel undertaken will be required after completion of the travel.
- Applications will be considered by a sub-group of the Student Award Group for recommendation to the Academic Board.
Helen Cam, BCE, was an undergradaute student at Royal Holloway College during 1904-1907, an MA student in 1909 and a member of staff from 1912 to 1921. She was appointed Fellow of Bryn Mawr College (Pennsylvania, USA); she then moved to Girton College, Cambridge. Her academic career culminated in her appointment to the Samuel Zemurray Professorship of History at Harvard (she was the first woman to be appointed Professor at that University). Her research interests were Anglo-Saxon government and politics.
Conditions of Award.
- One Helen Cam Award will be offered this year, of up to £2,000 in value, in the form of a contribution towards exceptional research expenses (other than normal subsistence) which are not covered by any other grant or award.
- The Award is open to History graduates of the College, to other History students who are, or have been, registered at the College for a postgraduate programme, and to Research Fellows attached to the Department of History. Normally preference will be given to applicants under the age of 30.
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The research for which an award will be made must be in one of the following fields:
(a) any aspect of Medieval History;
(b) legal and constitutional Modern Western European History. -
No one may receive the Award on more than one occasion.
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Applications will be considered by a sub-group of the Student Awards Group to include the Head of the Department of History and other full-time and permanent teachers in the Department of History.
This Prize was founded in
1968 by Mrs A M G Cary and her daughter in memory of Professor Max Cary,
Professor of Ancient History, who was a member of staff of Bedford College
from 1908-1946. The fund was originally used to provide prizes for male
students who would have been nominated for established Bedford College
Prizes, had these not been restricted to women.
All prizes were opened to both men and women students at the time of
the merger between Bedford College and Royal Holloway College and it
was agreed that the Max Cary Memorial Fund should be used to replace
three former Royal Holloway College prizes, known as College Prizes
and financed from general College funds. The prizes are open to all
undergraduate students of Royal Holloway, for work which shows initiative
and enterprise.
Conditions of Award.
- The College offers annually up to three Max Cary Memorial Prizes funds permitting, for work which shows initiative and enterprise.
- Competition for Max Cary Memorial Prizes is open to undergraduate students in any academic department of the College.
- The competition is intended to stimulate creative enterprise. Prizes will be awarded for work of high distinction in any field. A submission may fall within a student’s degree speciality or outside it, but prizes will not usually be awarded for activities carried out as part of a student’s normal academic work, or an entry which extends in some way prescribed coursework, although submission based on academic work which is of exceptional merit and originality may be considered. A prize may be awarded for work on a project approved by an academic department of the College, but where such a project requires the assistance of members of staff, work which the candidate claims to be his or her own must be indicated clearly. Students shall indicate where any assistance has been received or where results or findings have been obtained in collaboration with others.
- Where the entry is a written work or a score, four copies must be submitted.
- All written work must be presented in typescript and must not exceed 10,000 words.
- Photographic entries should be restricted to six pictures..
- Scientific, technical and mathematical projects or essays may be supported by models and/or records of experiments.
- Music compositions should be in the form of a score supported by a recording on tape of the entry.
- Visual entries should be accompanied by a written introduction. Photographs should include a technical statement.
- Candidates may, if they wish, attach to their submission a brief introductory note stating the theme and intention of the work. However, no disadvantage will be incurred to a candidate who chooses not to exercise this option.
- Submissions will be judged by a sub-group of the Students Awards Group for recommendation to the Academic Board.
Conditions of Award.
- A bursary of up to £100 (funds permitting)is offered to undergraduates in any Departments to assist with expenses in the UK or abroad incurred in connection with worthwhile extracurricular activities. It is not available to cover expenses for conferences or compulsory field/vacation courses.
- The bursary may at the discretion of the Student Awards Committee be used to supplement the Lionel Butler Travel Bursary.
- A short report on the activity undertaken will be required after its completion.
- Applications will be considered by a sub-group of the Student Awards Group.
UNA
ELLIS-FERMOR AWARD
The Una Ellis-Fermor
Memorial Research Fund was established
at the former Bedford College in 1959 in order to promote studies which
had been the subject of research by the late Professor Ellis-Fermor,
member of staff of the English Department from 1918 to 1958 and Hildred
Carlile Professor of English Language and Literature from 1947.
Conditions of Award.
- A grant of £2,000, will be awarded from the Fund for assistance towards the publication of scholarly work in the field of English, Irish or Scandinavian Drama, or for a comparative study of which English, Irish or Scandinavian Drama is a component.
- The Award may be used to meet expenses connected with publication, including travel.
- Men and women of any nationality who are graduates of any University in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland are eligible for the award. There is no age limit.
- The recipient of the award will be expected to acknowledge the award in his/her published work and to present a copy of it to Royal Holloway, University of London, Library.
- Applications will be considered by a sub-group of the Student Awards Group for recommendation to the Academic Board.
VICTORIA HAZLITT MEMORIAL FUND
Conditions of Award.
- Those eligible to apply
for grants from the Victoria Hazlitt Memorial Fund are undergraduate
and postgraduate students at Royal Holloway, University of London,
who are undertaking a course of study in the Department of Psychology
at the College.
- Applicants must have
attended courses in Psychology at the College for not less than two
sessions. In exceptional cases grants may be made to students who
have attended courses in Psychology for less than two sessions, provided
the Committee are satisfied in each case that the applicant proposes
to continue psychological work to an advanced standard.
- The Head of the Department
of Psychology will be consulted in making the award.
- A recommendation for
an Award shall be made to the Academic Board through the Academic
Awards Committee.
- The income from the fund
shall be used to make grants for such purposes as: payment of fees,
travelling expenses, purchase of books, purchase or hire of apparatus.
- The value of a grant shall be at the discretion of the awarding group and according to the income available.
Following a Bicentary Recital given by Felicity Lott at Crossland House in 2000, a small bursary fund was established. The aim of this fund is to support a student graduating from Royal Holloway University of London who wishes to seek professional training as a performer.
Conditions of Award
1.The bursary is open to all final year students who intend to progress
to a professional career as a performer of music. ( not limited to those
pursing a music degree)
2. If pursing a BMus degree applicants must have taken Performance in
the final year
3. Applicants must be able to provide evidence of excellence in their
field as an intending professional musician, supported by a statement
of their achievements and two references one of which must be from an
academic source.
This Prize was established
at Bedford College in 1940 by a bequest from the late Fenton Macpherson
in memory of his wife, a former student of the College.
Mr Macpherson spent
his working life in Fleet Street and it was his hope that a hidden talent for good quality
journalism would be found.The prize was intended to encourage the ability to write
cogently and concisly in good English, particularly by students considering
a career in journalism. The Prize is clearly intended to promote good journalistic writing and
will be awarded accordingly.
Conditions of Award.
- Open to undergraduate students only, the College offers two Mrs Mary A Macpherson Prizes to the value of £1,000.
- The Orbital and The Founder will recomend articles to the Awards Group for consideration.
- If considered suitable, the winning piece of Jounalism, signed by its author, may be forwarded to the Press Association for circulation to the daily papers throughout the country for publication if they see fit.
PETER MARSH PRIZE IN ECOLOGY OR CONSERVATION
Mr and Mrs J Marsh have endowed this prize in memory of their son Peter Marsh, who was a student at Royal Holloway College from 1979 to 1981. The prize may be awarded each year to an undergraduate student of the College, who will normally be in the second year of his/her course of study, and will take the form of a bursary to assist with a field project in ecology or conservation.
Conditions of Award.
The value of the prize will vary depending on the project and the amount available in each year. The maximum award this year will be £400.- The prize will be awarded by a committee consisting of the Head of the School of Biological Sciences, two other members of staff concerned with ecology or conservation and the Dean of Students. The award will be reported to the Student Awards Group for formal recommendation to the Academic Board.
- Recipients of the Prize are required to submit a brief account of the activities for which they utilised the Prize, to be submitted by 1 November in the year of the award.
Miss Irene Marshall was a student of Bedford College from 1907 to 1910. She died in 1943, making provision in her will for the foundation of this scholarship.
Conditions of Award.
- The value of the Scholarship is £2,000 and may be varied according to the income available.
- The competition is open to students in the Faculty of Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, with preference being given to applicants in the Department of Geography.
- The Scholarship may be
used for one of the following purposes:
- (a) travel for the
study of Geography and/or Botany;
(b) research other than research entailing vivisection;
(c) study for a Second Degree;
(d) completion of a Special Degree course; - (e) undertaking a course of study in Geography and/or Botany in any University in the United Kingdom or abroad.
- (a) travel for the
study of Geography and/or Botany;
- Science students other than those studying Geography or Botany can be considered in respect of clauses (b), (c) or (d) only.
- A sub-group of the Student Awards Group will consider applications for the Scholarship and consult the relevant Head of Department before making a recommendation to the Academic Board.
- The Scholarship will be awarded initially for one year, but in the case of postgraduate work it may be renewed annually for a total tenure of not more than three years.
Kathleen Nixon was a student at Royal Holloway College from 1925 to 1928. This award was founded by her father in 1955.
Conditions of Award.
- One or more Kathleen Nixon Scholarships may be awarded annually. This year one will be awarded of up to £3,500.
- Candidates (women only) must have graduated at Royal Holloway College, Bedford College or Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, or be a finalist at Royal Holloway, University of London, in the term in which the award is made.
- The Scholarship(s) shall be awarded to provide a contribution towards the cost of further professional or other vocational training.
- A Scholarship shall normally be awarded for one year, but the holder of a Scholarship may apply for its renewal.
- Applications will be considered by a sub-group of the Student Award Group for recommendation to the Academic Board.
The Student Awards Committee will expect candidates to explore all other possibilities of financial help in addition to applying for this award.
The Fund was instituted in 1970 in memory of Edna Purdie, Professor and Head of Department of German at Bedford College (1933-62), by the amalgamation of donations from friends and colleagues.
Conditions of Awards.
- Students and former students of Royal Holloway, University of London, and graduates of Royal Holloway College, Bedford College and Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, are eligible to apply to the Fund for assistance with completion and/or publication of scholarly work, dissertation and thesis in Germanic and English Studies or in Comparative Studies where there is a substantial Germanic element.
- Application for assistance may be made at any time and awards need not to be restricted to the income from the sum of money invested. It shall be a condition of award that recipients will acknowledge the award in their published work, dissertation or thesis.
- Applications shall be
considered by a Special Committee, to be known as Edna Purdie Memorial
Fund Committee, which shall consist of:
- Recommendation for the Award shall be considered by the Student Award Group and approved by the Academic Board.
the Head of the Department of German;
the Head of the Department of English;
one other member of the Department of German nominated by its Head;
the Academic Registrar, as Secretary with power to co-opt.
THE
HELEN SHACKLETON FUND
The Helen Shackleton Fund was established in 2003 following the death
of Mr WHJ Richardson. Mr Richardson bequeathed the fund in memory of
his late wife neé Constance Helen Rickards Shackleton. Miss Shackleton
was a graduate of the College in circa 1929 and died just a few weeks
after being married to Mr Richardson in 1943. The fund will be used
to support undergraduate or postgraduate students in their studies,
usually as a bursary to contribute towards the costs of foreign travel connected to their academic work.
Conditions of Award.
- The value of the award may vary from year to year, depending on the funds available. For the current academic year, up to 6 awards of £2,000 each will be made.
- Applications are invited from all students of the College who believe such an award may enhance their academic work, with preference being given to the support of foreign travel.
- The holder of the award shall, on completion of the travel, provide to the Student Awards Committee a brief report on the travel undertaken.
Applications will be considered
by a Sub-group of the Student Awards Group for recommendation to the
Academic Board.
DAME MARGARET TUKE TRAVEL BURSARY
This Bursary was established at Bedford College in 1949 to commemorate the life and work of Dame Margaret Tuke, Principal of the College from 1907 to 1929.
Conditions of Award.
- The Award shall be made to a postgraduate student of Royal Holloway, University of London, or to a graduate from Royal Holloway, University of London, Royal Holloway College, Bedford College or Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. In the case of a graduate, preference will be given to applicants of not less than five years’ standing.
- The Bursary shall be used for travel in connection with some definite cultural project, not necessarily for academic research.
- Applications shall be considered by a sub-group of the Student Awards Committee for recommendation to the Academic Board.
- The holder of the Bursary shall, on completion of the travel, provide the Student Awards Group with a brief report on the travel undertaken.
Constance West was a lecturer in the Department of French at Royal Holloway College.
Conditions of Award.
- The Award will be made to a student of Modern Languages for travel expenses, cost of further courses and/or training .
- The application must include a reference from the Head of Department concerned.