Overview
Scholarship type
Number of scholarships to award
Grant
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
The scholarship is intended for students interested in careers that use data and digital skills to support public-sector organisations or public missions, including health, renewable energy and climate change.
Benefits
Each recipient receives £5,000.
Eligibility
Applicants must satisfy all of the following to be considered for this scholarship:
- Permanently reside in the Liverpool City Region. This is defined as a student who attended secondary school and college in the Liverpool City Region (defined as the boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, Wirral, St. Helens, Runcorn and Sefton) and have applied for your undergraduate student finance from a postcode in the Liverpool City Region
- This must be your first postgraduate degree, and you must not already hold an equivalent qualification
- You must have made an application to Student Finance England for a Postgraduate Master’s Loan
- You must have been assessed for fee status as a 'Home' student, or expect to be assessed as a 'Home' student.
- You must have been considered a student from a widening participation background during your undergraduate degree. Please see below for information on what qualifies as a widening participation background.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Locations
Nationality
Study experience required
Age
Application
Application deadline
To help us to get to know you, we will ask you for a personal statement of 4000 characters answering the following questions:
Why would the scholarship be beneficial to your studies? How would you use the scholarship to enhance your studies?
What are your academic and career goals, and how would the scholarship help you to achieve these goals?
How will your education and career provide future benefit to the Liverpool City Region?
What achievements, academically or personally, are you most proud of?