{"id":2160,"date":"2021-02-18T12:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2021-02-18T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:59:28","slug":"undergraduate-summer-vacation-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2021\/02\/18\/undergraduate-summer-vacation-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Summer Vacation Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The Institute of Cancer Research<\/p>\n<h4>The ICR offers a limited number of paid undergraduate summer vacation scholarships every year.<\/h4>\n<p>The summer 2021 scheme is now open for applications. <strong>Deadline 26 February 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are now inviting applications for our 2021 Summer Vacation Scholarship Scheme. Funds are available for up to seven undergraduate students to undertake a six to eight week research project (with a stipend of \u00a3250 per week). Research projects will be supervised by our research teams based at either our Chelsea or Sutton site.<\/p>\n<h4>Aims<\/h4>\n<p>The scheme is for undergraduate students at UK Higher Education institutions in the middle years (i.e. second of three, second\/third of four) of their undergraduate degrees. Applicants in their first year are not eligible to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are encouraged from students who have not previously undertaken any form of summer placement. Placements will be offered to exceptional students.<\/p>\n<p>Research projects are available to undergraduate students with back grounds in Biology, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, <strong>biomedical engineering<\/strong>, chemistry, <strong>computer science<\/strong>, <strong>mathematics<\/strong>, physics and <strong>statistics<\/strong>. Browse the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icr.ac.uk\/studying-and-training\/undergraduate-vacation-scholarship-scheme\/research-teams-interested-in-hosting-a-summer-vacation-student\">list of research teams inviting applicants<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>Find out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icr.ac.uk\/studying-and-training\/undergraduate-vacation-scholarship-scheme\/how-to-apply\">how to apply <\/a>\u00a0and see what previous students had to say about their experience at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icr.ac.uk\/studying-and-training\/undergraduate-vacation-scholarship-scheme\">https:\/\/www.icr.ac.uk\/studying-and-training\/undergraduate-vacation-scholarship-scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline for applications is\u00a026<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further information can be found in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icr.ac.uk\/studying-and-training\/undergraduate-vacation-scholarship-scheme\/faqs\">FAQs<\/a>. Please contact\u00a0<a>Dr Silvia Alvarez Perez<\/a>\u00a0for any questions regarding eligibility or remaining questions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2164\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/files\/2021\/02\/Flyer-2021.jpg\" alt=\"ICR Summer Scholarships poster\" width=\"720\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Cancer Research The ICR offers a limited number of paid undergraduate summer vacation scholarships every year. The summer 2021 scheme is now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2021\/02\/18\/undergraduate-summer-vacation-scholarships\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":2162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205105,9653,205104,5343,205131,178026],"tags":[9658,872,9653,57948,37,151407,149978,9650],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}