“A very enjoyable, fun and enriching experience.” Abbie Marsh, scheme participant, 2022
Through an award from Santander, the AAPS, ART-AI and SAMBa Centres for Doctoral Training are supporting six Undergraduate Research Bursaries for women and people of under-represented gender identities (including non-binary, transgender, gender-fluid, gender non-conforming) during the summer of 2023. This scheme is only open to undergraduates at the University of Bath.
These bursaries provide a valuable experience for students who are considering a career in research to explore their potential and sample the research environment.
Each award is worth up to £2000 for a period of up to 10 weeks.
You can propose your own research project idea or select from one of our pool of predefined projects.
Spending a period of time immersed in a research environment is a great way to delve into the detail of an interesting and challenging question. It will give you the chance to experience how to go about developing research ideas and methodology, and how to implement them. Whether you would like to pursue a career in academia or industry, this experience can be invaluable.
Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) are large PhD training programmes which span a broad research area. Linking your research experience to a CDT means you will have access to a framework of additional support such as mentoring from current PhD students, skills training workshops, and vibrant research environments.
Read about previous research experiences
How to develop your application
The scheme will fund five research projects up to £2000 each for Bath undergraduates to take place between 5 June and 29 September 2023. All projects must be supported by an academic supervisor at the University of Bath and be aligned to one of the three Centres for Doctoral Training highlighted below.
To develop your application, you can:
You may wish to explore the research experience, but not have a clear vision of the project you want to do. A number of our academics have put together project proposals that they would be interested in supervising. If any of the projects are of interest to you please contact the named academic. There is scope to develop these projects further as part of the application process.
There is no preference given to these pre-defined projects during the panel process. All projects are judged on their own merits.
**Deadline 10 February 2023**
First complete the application form, which will need to include:
Then:
The AAPS CDT is a remarkable hybrid think-and-do tank where science, behaviour change and future engineering meet. We are supporting our students to pioneer and shape the transition to clean, sustainable, affordable mobility. Our interdisciplinary research themes cover low carbon fuels, gas purification, propulsion electrification, digital systems, optimisation and integration, chemical energy converters, sustainability and low carbon transition, driver and user behaviour, transport and society, and transport policy and economics.
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The ART-AI CDT trains researchers in accountable, responsible and transparent artificial intelligence. We are based across three faculties at the university and aim to develop artificial intelligence (AI) that is safe, fair and understandable. We recruit students from engineering, computer science and social science backgrounds to help ensure that developments in AI, and decisions on how and when to use it or not, are informed and ethical. Key research themes include: diversity and bias in AI, engineering applications of AI, innovation in data-driven and classical AI, policy-making with and for AI, risk and decision making with AI, safety and trust in human-machine systems, and transparency and intelligibility of AI.
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The SAMBa CDT is a vibrant research centre training the future generation of interdisciplinary mathematicians working at the interface of statistics with applied and computational mathematics. Working with partners from industry, government, and academic researchers from a broad range of disciplines, we deliver high quality collaborative research approaches, grounded in mathematical sciences with an application focus. We support PhD students to deliver multidisciplinary research, often in collaboration with external partners. Research ranges from modelling of data, to investigating fundamental movements of particles, to applying mathematics to real world phenomena.
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Scheme terms and conditions
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