Travel scholarships
Financial assistance is available to undergraduate students wishing to undertake travel projects during the summer vacation.
The University will consider the applications according to some of the undernoted criteria:
- benefit to others
- benefit to self
- financial need
- satisfactory academic progress
The application form for summer 2013 is now available (see Forms link at right). All students should complete only one application form. Awards will be given out according to available fund individual criteria and the applications received. Examples of the awards available are listed below. Completed forms must be submitted electronically and in hard copy to Julia Griffiths, Proctor's Office (email: jg81@st-andrews.ac.uk) by Friday, 8 March 2013.
Applications without references will not be considered. Applicants are responsible for contacting their referee directly and allow time for them to submit the reference by the deadline. References received after the deadline will nullify your application.
Please note that group applications are not accepted and students should submit separate applications.
The University considers the applications in April. Students who have been successful in their application will be required to complete a University risk assessment prior to any funds being released.
For additional information please contact Julia Griffiths in the Proctor's Office at jg81@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Fund information
Alexander H Smith Travel Bursary
One travel bursary of approx. £400 is available to matriculated students of the University for international travel. The travel bursary is only open to Modern Languages students taking at least two languages. The award is funded from a bequest from the late Dr Alexander H Smith, MA French-German, 1941.
Ede and Ravenscroft Travel Scholarship
Ede and Ravenscroft Ltd offer two travel scholarships (normally to the value of £500 each) to a first or second year student who has attained a high level of academic performance. The scholarship is to support an expedition or adventurous foreign travel during the long vacation
Nisbet Memorial Travel Scholarships
A small number of scholarships normally of £200 - £250 each are offered to undergraduate students for travel abroad, during the summer vacation. The travel must be undertaken while the student is an undergraduate and may be in connection with the student's course of study or with some other creative or practical purpose. Travel for the purpose of a holiday will not qualify.
Norman Kemp Smith Travel Scholarships
A small number of scholarships, normally approx. £250 each, are open to students in their Junior Honours year at the University or to those students in their final year of a General degree before progressing to further study in St Mary’s College or to a course of clinical medicine. The awards are for recreational purposes and need not necessarily be of relevance to academic study.
St Salvator's Hall Travel Scholarships
To mark the Golden Jubilee of St Salvator’s Hall in 1980 an endowment fund was established to provide one or more travel scholarships annually with a value normally of the order of £200 - £250. The scholarships will be tenable during the long vacation and their purpose is to assist students to partake in some form of interesting foreign travel. The travel does not need to be connected with their chosen academic disciplines. The scholarships are only open to residents of the Hall and will be made on academic merit and on the contribution the applicant has made to the life of the Hall.
Walker Trust Travel Scholarships
These scholarships are open to students who have attained a satisfactory level of academic progress, and are positive and active participants in the extra-curricular life of the University. The scholarships are intended primarily to further the useful application of students’ time and energies during the long vacation and are open to students who intend to carry out a course of study at a foreign university or a seriously planned visit of educational value to a foreign country, excluding an official university-planned expedition. Scholarships will be awarded by the Trustees of the Walker Trust on the recommendation of the Bursaries Committee.
Zannah Stephen Memorial Travel Scholarship
One or two undergraduate travel scholarships of the order normally of £300 are to be awarded to matriculated students of the University for international travel. The scholarships are open to third year students undertaking study within the Schools of Art History, Biology, Geography & Geosciences, History and Modern Languages.
