This Royal Society scheme provides support for outstanding early career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining experience across international borders.
ELIGIBILITY:
Supports outstanding early-career researchers in developing independent research careers.
Open only to researchers based outside the UK who do not hold UK citizenship.
Applicants must hold a PhD by the start of funding and have no more than seven years of full-time postdoctoral experience.
A mutually beneficial proposal must be developed with an Oxford Physics host scientist.
Offers flexibility for personal circumstances, including part-time working.
The College works with the Trust, the Boustany Foundation and the Institute of Astronomy to offer the Boustany Scholarship in Astronomy, which is awarded to a PhD applicant in Astronomy once in every three years, and with the Trust and the Boustany Foundation to offer the Boustany Cambridge Pembroke Scholarship in Philosophy, which is also awarded once every three years.
ELIGIBILITY:
This scholarship is only tenable at Pembroke College, and is offered every three years to a PhD applicant in Philosophy
Boustany Scholars will become members of Pembroke College (applicants are not required to specify Pembroke on their admissions application, but must be willing to transfer)
Scholars are required to spend a 2-month internship at the Boustany Foundation
No separate application is required for this scholarship, only the application to the University of Cambridge for admission, which must be submitted by the funding deadline specific to your course (please refer to the Postgraduate Course Directory)