The scholarships are designed to help with the costs of a specific project that may last up to 3 years. The average total award is about £6,500 and the maximum in any one year is £10,000.
Applicants applying within the area of medical research must provide evidence that the proposed project is of a cross-disciplinary nature, not appropriate to the traditional major medical research funding bodies. In addition, the following entry criteria must be satisfied, as candidates must be:
* living in the British Isles during the period of application
* 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 they have been resident in the United Kingdom at least 3 years)
* aged 24 or over on 1 September
Further information
For more details, see: Wingate Foundation website
http://www.wingatescholarships.org.uk/overview.php
