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Susan Sun from Oxford High School who took a 6-week bursary placement in the Culham Science Centre. Susan is pictured here with her project supervisor Dr A Thyagaraja.We’re always looking for new partners. Hosts provide one or more projects lasting between four to six weeks, during July and/or August.

Join an initiative which helps young people contribute to your organisation through real science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) project work and fresh thinking. Demonstrate your commitment to (STEM) education, develop skills through mentoring a young student, and spread knowledge of your organisation’s activities.

What to do next if you’re interested in becoming a project provider

Please contact your nearest Nuffield co-ordinator for more details.

By agreeing to host a project for the scheme you can:

• Spread knowledge of your organisation’s activities

• Bring fresh-thinking to your existing projects

• Develop staff skills through the mentoring of bursary students

• Strengthen education/industry links

• Demonstrate your commitment to education

• Further the work of your organisation

If you are a project provider who has agreed to offer a placement to a bursary student this Summer, you might find the following checklist useful.

If you are interested in becoming involved in the scheme on a national level, please contact Jo Oladejo.

Last Updated Fri, 5 December 2008

Quotes from project providers who took part in the scheme in the Summer of 2008

Charlotte was absolutely brilliant and a pleasure to have in the lab for the 4 weeks, she has a genuine interest in plants and ecology which I hope she pursues at University. The quality of her work was exceptionally high and the data obtained was very interesting not only for her but for the whole of our research group.
Su Hodgson, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London

The main reason I do this is to help in motivating more young people to take up science.
Raghu Padinjat, Group Leader, Babraham Institute

The scheme allows us to conduct short research projects to investigate topics that we are interested in, but are not yet part of the group's main research programme. Our Nuffield projects have sometimes led to further research being carried out.
Dr Simon Butler, Senior Technical Officer, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge

The bursary scheme strengthens links with local schools.
John Chilton, RCUK Academic Fellow, Peninsula Medical School

I gained by having someone ask me about basic assumptions that we make: this was a good "sanity check" on the direction of the work being done.
Martin Bell, Staff Six Sigma Black Belt, Seagate Technology

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