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Final Report Form
The final report form for Nuffield Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2010 is now available. To download a copy of the form, please click here.

All applicants have now been notified of the outcome of their applications. Grant letters and cheques have been sent out directly to supervisors. For details on grants awarded this year, please click here.

What are Nuffield Undergraduate Bursaries?

The Nuffield Foundation offers around 400 Undergraduate Research Bursaries each year, allowing students across the UK to experience first hand what it would be like to be a scientific researcher by taking part in a research project during their summer holidays. For examples of projects that previous students have undertaken, please click here.

Supervisors

If you are hoping to have an undergraduate student next summer, have you considered hosting a school student as well? Click here to read how Professor Alan Gange has run our two schemes side by side for the past 16 years.

Final Reports

Final report forms for 2010 are now available. You can download the form here.

Contact us

For enquiries about the scheme please email urb@nuffieldfoundation.org or call Sarah Saunders or Sharmila Metcalf on 020 7631 0566.
For postal enquiries please write to us at:
The Nuffield Foundation, 28 Bedford Square,
London WC1B 3JS.

Last Updated Wed, 4 August 2010

Latest News

In 2008, Chris Young spent his Nuffield Bursary working with Dr Joanna Ashbourn in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Dr Lies Geris of K.U. Leuven, Belgium. Their work has recently been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, and a copy of the publication can be read here.

Nick Wardle, was awarded a bursary in 2008 to work with Dr Claire Foullon at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Their work has recently been published, and Nick is now studying for a PhD at Imperial College London. Read more about their project here.

Sam Timson has just completed a project with Dr Max Ryadnov at the University of Leicester. His work on biomaterials has now been published by the American Chemical Society. Click here to read the JACS article, or to hear more about the project.

Malcolm Spain worked with Professor David Procter in the Chemistry Department at Manchester University last summer. His work has just been published by the American Chemical Society. To read more about Malcolm's project, please click here.

Tafadzwa Charidza (pictured top left) has opened up a new avenue of drug therapy research through her Nuffield placement at the University of Ulster, and earned herself admission to the British Pharmacological Society. Click here to read the full story.

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