Funding and Scholarships

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Energy Futures Lab Scholarships

Energy Futures Lab Widening Participation Scholarship

This scholarship is aimed at helping home students from underrepresented groups access our Sustainable Energy Future course. This studentship covers the full home tuition fee and a bursary of up to £5,000, which, in combination with postgraduate loans, is expected to enable a candidate to fully fund this one-year full-time course. A number of criteria must be met in order to be eligible for this scholarship. Please note if there are more eligible applications than places, meeting the criteria is no guarantee of an award.

The candidate must meet at least one of the criteria below to be considered for this scholarship. As we expect to receive many more applications than places, successful applications would normally meet more than one:

You have been in public care for a minimum of three months since the age of 11 and will be under the age of 25 on the course start date. Time spent in care could refer to foster care, residential care (mainly children’s homes) or other arrangements outside the immediate or extended family.
You're from a low-income background evidenced by receipt of a maintenance grant and/or a higher rate of maintenance loan during undergraduate studies. Consideration will be given to the number of years that a maintenance grant was received and the amount awarded, or the rate of maintenance loan received (if you started your undergraduate course following the phasing out of maintenance grants).
You come from one of the most deprived areas of the UK as indicated by ACORN and LPN data. This is based on home postcode before attending university.
You are/were in receipt of a Disabled Student Allowance (DSA) as part of your undergraduate studies or are receiving/received support from your undergraduate university’s disability office.
You have been recognised as a refugee or asylum seeker or been granted humanitarian protection status by the UK government, or are the partner or child of someone who has been granted refugee, asylum seeker or humanitarian protection status.
You regard yourself as being of African or Caribbean origin – for example, ‘Black British’, ‘Black-African’, ‘Black-Caribbean’, or ‘Other Black’ background. This includes people of Mixed heritage.
You are a carer. We define a carer as anyone who has a commitment to providing unpaid care to a family member or friend who couldn't cope without their support. This may be due to illness, disability, a mental health issue or substance misuse. A caring responsibility may be short term (such as supporting someone with their recovery following an accident) or long term (such as helping someone with a long term illness).
You consider yourself estranged from your family (not supported by your family). We define estranged students as under 25 and studying without the support of a family network. You'd usually have been assessed as independent by Student Finance due to estrangement and/or:

o You've had no communicative relationship with your parents/guardians for at least six months and this situation isn't likely to change;

o You've been homeless or ‘sofa surfing’;

o You've been in foster or local authority care but aren't classed as a care-leaver;

o Both of your parents have passed away and you have no alternative family support in place.

Applicants for this scholarship need to first apply online for the MSc Sustainable Energy Futures course (H9A1) and receive a College ID number. Once an admission offer is made, the applicants can complete the application form. The deadline for submission is 1 May 2022.

Shortlisted applicants may be invited for interview, possibly by MS Teams, and will be notified by email as soon as possible after the deadline.

Energy Futures Lab Overseas Scholarship for Development

This scholarship is aimed at supporting international students with financial difficulties, from low-income countries, to access our Sustainable Energy Future course. The maximum award of this scholarship covers the full international tuition fee and a £15,000 bursary. The candidate must come from Low or Lower Middle-Income Countries defined in ODA, have no previous experience of studying in the UK and demonstrate a clear need for financial support. Please note there are likely more eligible candidates than places, and therefore a selection panel will decide the final award considering the financial situation, the academic excellence, and the potential impact.

Shortlisted applicants may be invited for interview, possibly by MS Teams, and will be notified by email as soon as possible after the deadline.

Alan Howard Scholarship

The scholarship covers fees and a contribution towards living expenses up to a total of £50,000.

Applicants should fulfil all of the following criteria:

Be a national of (or permanently domiciled in) Israel
Be classed as an overseas student for fee purposes
Hold an offer to study the MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures
Have a good undergraduate degree (equivalent to a 1^st)
Meet the higher level English language requirement (for IELTS this is 7 or above overall and minimum 6.5 in each element)

Application

Once an offer has been made then applicants for the scholarship should write a personal statement of no more than 500 words, explaining how they meet the criteria and why they should be considered for the scholarship. The personal statement should be sent to mscinsef@imperial.ac.uk. The deadline to submit this additional statement is 1 June 2022.

Presidential Scholarship for Black Students

Presidential Scholarships for Black Students

Imperial College London is offering one undergraduate and one Master’s (MSc and MRes) Presidential Scholarship in each Faculty (Engineering, Medicine, Natural Sciences and Business for Master's study) for Black students with Home fee status.

Each scholarship:

covers the full cost of tuition for eligible courses;

includes an annual maintenance grant (Master's scholars only);

is for 2022 entry offer holders who reply with firm acceptance of their offer by the relevant deadline;

is non-repayable and available on top of any other funding that you may also be eligible for; and

comes with mentoring support to help you reach your potential.

Eligibility criteria

The scholarships are for Black students. To meet this eligibility criteria, you must be in one of the following ethnic categories (or their equivalent in the respective application systems):

Black – African

Black – Caribbean

Black – Other

Mixed – White and Black African

Mixed White and Black Caribbean

Other Mixed background including Black African, Black Caribbean or Other Black background