Wingate: Scholarships 2008/2009

Wingate Scholarships are awarded to individuals of great potential or proven excellence...

Wingate Scholarships are awarded to individuals of great potential or proven excellence who need financial support to undertake pioneering or original work of intellectual, scientific, artistic, social or environmental value, and to outstandingly talented musicians for advanced training.

They are designed to help with the costs of a specific project which may last up to 3 years. The average total award is about £6,500 and the maximum in any one year is £10,000.

There is no upper age limit and the Scholarship Committee welcomes applications from mature candidates and those from non-traditional academic backgrounds. Wingate Scholarships attempts to provide funding for cross-disciplinary projects that might not fall comfortably into any of the conventional funding categories.

We Do Offer Funding For:

• Independent Research Projects in most subjects (this includes writing projects in biography, fiction and non-fiction, poetry, translation etc)
  see opposite for exceptions
• Doctoral and Post-Doctoral studies
• Field Work associated with Independent Research, Doctoral or Post-Doctoral Projects
• Advanced Music Training
• Craft & Design Research Projects

We Do Not Offer Funding For:

• Medical Research (unless the project has a highly cross-disciplinary flavour, not appropriate to the traditional major medical research funding
  bodies)
• Performing Arts (except music but including theatre, cinema, film, television & dance studies)
• Taught Courses (this includes all Undergraduate and Masters degrees with the exception of post-grad music degrees - inst. or voice - & advanced music training for practising musicians)
• Courses or Diplomas leading to Professional Qualifications or Electives
• Courses or Diplomas at Drama, Art or Business Colleges - Fine Art or Photography

Applicants must be:

• living in the British Isles during the period of application (this applies to all applicants)
• able to satisfy the Scholarship Committee that they need financial support to undertake the work projected
• able to show why the project (if it takes the form of academic research) is unlikely to attract Research Council, British Academy or major agency funding
• citizens of the United Kingdom or other Commonwealth country, Ireland or Israel or citizens of another EU country (provided that they have been resident in the United Kingdom at least 3 years)
• aged 24 or over on September 1st , 2008

Applications from abroad are not accepted and previous Wingate Scholars are not eligible.

For more information and to apply, please see www.wingatescholarships.org.uk.