Applicants to the PhD Physiology, Development and Neuroscience who have received a conditional offer of admission to start in October 2023, are eligible to apply for a PDN SBS DTP PhD Studentship in support of their studies here at Cambridge. This award is aimed at students from low-income households with experience of educational disadvantage and students from under-represented groups, including Black, British Bangladeshi or British Pakistani, backgrounds who will be charged University fees at the Home or UK rate.
To qualify for consideration for this award you must:
· be a Home (UK fee rate) student
· hold a conditional offer
· be predicted to achieve, or have already achieved, a 1st or high 2i in your undergraduate degree
· not have existing financial means (in the form of savings, assets, or an income independent of hours worked) to finance the proposed course of study yourself
· have applied by the funding deadline of Thursday 5 January 2023
· have completed the online Funding Application Form.
In addition, your answers to the questions on the online Funding Application Form, which will be made available to all applicants who receive an offer of a place to study, will be taken into consideration.
The questions are provided here for your information only.
1. Full name (first and surname)
2. Email address (as used on university application form)
3. Application Reference Number:
4. Are you a Home (UK fee status) student?
5. Have you applied for or are you in receipt of other funding for this PhD degree course?
6. Ethnicity – please indicate which, if any, of the following apply to you:
7. Please provide the postcode of your secondary school (if you attended more than one secondary school, please use the postcode of the last one you attended):
8. At secondary school, were you in receipt of Free School Meals?
9. At secondary school, did you spend any time in local authority care or as a Foyer resident?
10. At secondary school, did you have caring responsibilities for a family member who could not cope without your practical support?
11. When you applied for your undergraduate course, were you living in one of the most deprived areas of the country? (This is defined according to the government's IMD database. You can check your postcode ranking using the government website for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)
12. If you started your undergraduate course prior to August 2016: were you in receipt of a full or partial Maintenance Grant from the UK Government as an undergraduate? Or, if you started your undergraduate course after August 2016: were you eligible for a means-tested maintenance loan from the UK Student Loans Company and your residual household income was assessed as £42,620 or less?
13. Are/were you in the first generation of your immediate family to do an undergraduate course?
14. As a full-time undergraduate, are/were you estranged from your immediate family or care-givers?
15. As a full-time undergraduate, do/did you have caring responsibilities for a family member who could not cope without your practical support?
16. As a full-time undergraduate, are/were you a single parent, lone foster parent, or lone guardian of a young person under the age of 18 or still in full time education?
17. As a full-time undergraduate, do/did you face disruption due to physical or mental health difficulties, or bereavement of close family?
18. If you were offered admission to your chosen course at Cambridge, would you be in the first generation of your immediate family to do a PhD?
19. Are there other challenging life circumstances you feel should be taken into account? For example, educational disruption due to moving school or illness, doing paid work during full-time undergraduate study, circumstances that limited your choice of undergraduate university, an unusual route to postgraduate study, or anything else. Please give brief details (maximum 150 words).
20. What would receiving this award mean to you (maximum 150 words)?