The Sam and John Dawson Scholarship
The Sam and John Dawson Scholarship will provide a maximum of £60,000 per student (£15,000 per year for three years, plus a Professional Training Year, if taken) for a care-experienced student at the University of Surrey.
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The Sam and John Dawson Scholarship will support an undergraduate care-experienced student during their degree programme at the University of Surrey. The scholarship will provide a maximum of £15,000 a year for three years of academic study, including a PTY (if taken).
Applicants studying a STEM course are encouraged to apply, but this is not a compulsory criterion.
The terms of the scholarship listed above are at the discretion of the donor and may be subject to change.
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible to apply, the applicant must be:
- A first-year undergraduate home/UK student
- From a care-experienced background (see definition below)
- Studying a STEM course at Surrey (see course list below) – this criterion is non-compulsory
Care-experienced is defined as students who “have spent time in local authority care, in a residential children’s home, have been looked after at home by a supervision order or have lived with relatives under kinship care."
Criteria for care experienced
- Living with foster carers under local authority care
- In residential care (e.g. a children’s home)
- Looked after at home under a supervision order
- Or in kinship care with relatives or friends, either officially (e.g. a special guardianship order) or informally without local authority support.
Eligible courses
- Aerospace Engineering
- Astronautics and Space Engineering
- Biochemistry
- Biological Sciences
- Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical Science
- Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Chemistry with Forensic Investigation
- Civil Engineering
- Computer and Internet Engineering
- Computer Science
- Economics and Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Electronic Engineering
- Electronic Engineering with Computer Systems
- Environment and Sustainability
- Financial Mathematics
- Food Science and Nutrition
- Mathematics and Physics
- Mechanical engineering
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Microbiology
- Nutrition
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Physics
- Physics with Astronomy
- Physics with Nuclear Astrophysics
- Physics with Quantum Technologies
- Psychology
- Sport and Exercise Science
- Veterinary Biosciences.
How to apply
To apply for this scholarship students entering the first year of their undergraduate degree in a STEM subject at the University of Surrey should complete all sections of the online application form.
Please note that you cannot receive this scholarship in addition to the other university bursaries.
Students will be advised of their application outcome during the first semester.
Please note that application to the Sam and John Dawson scholarship is competitive and not all applications will be successful.
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