The School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences (SMDBS) will award up to 5 students, who meet specific widening participation criteria, an 8-week summer studentship. The studentship is open to students currently enrolled (2024/25) in pre-ultimate years of undergraduate studies in Medicine, Dentistry, Biomedical Sciences or Human Biology degrees (ie Medicine or Dentistry years 1-4, Biomedical Sciences or Human Biology Years 1-2).

The scholarship will provide the selected students with a stipend of £200-400 per week for 8 weeks (towards expenses) to carry out research in one of the 6 teaching or research centres within SMDBS. The award will be subject to satisfactory performance on their course and good standing within the university. The successful candidates will be required to submit a report (250 words) on the experience and impact the studentship has had on their career development within 2 weeks of completing the studentship program. Further to this the successful candidates may be asked to participate in publicity regarding their activities.

To be eligible for this studentship candidates must normally be a resident of Northern Ireland (including outside of termtime) and meet ONE of the widening participation criteria below:

• Have a permanent residence postcode that is classified as being in a "disadvantaged neighbourhood" (Quintile 1) by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (please check eligibility of your postcode at http://go.qub.ac.uk/PostcodeCheckerQ1  
• Are in receipt of the full maintenance grant from Student Finance NI (based on family income less than £19,203)
• Are a care leaver or care experienced (foster/residential care)
• Are an asylum seeker or refugee

If you meet ONE of the criteria above, we invite you to apply for the awards using the link below:
https://forms.office.com/e/A0JR0LtNbf

Applications will close on Friday 4^th April 2025 at 4pm.
Only applications received before the deadline will be considered.

Applicants will be asked to provide a statement of no more than 250 words to outline why they should be considered for the studentship, their motivation in applying and what benefits they hope to gain. An additional (no more than) 250 words should be submitted detailing the area of research/training which they would be interested in pursuing during the summer studentship and why. Check out the following links to the teaching and research centres (Biomedical, Medical, Dentistry teaching centres and the PGJCCR, WWIEM and CPH research centres). You are very welcome to indicate an interest in one of the already existing studentships in any of the centres but we would also welcome your own ideas or outlines for any topic that you would be interested in working on.

A panel of judges will assess and shortlist applications for interview to determine the final recipients. The successful candidates will be announced in mid-late April 2025 with the studentships likely to run between June and August 2025 in conjunction with other studentship programmes running in the respective centres.

Please note: The application must be completed in one session and cannot be saved. We would suggest therefore that you complete your statements separately and then copy and paste it into the application form.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr Sean Roe s.roe@qub.ac.uk or Dr Mary McGahon m.mcgahon@qub.ac.uk