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Croucher Foundation is offering research studentships for the academic year 2016-2017. These studentships are awarded for full-time study or research in natural sciences, medicine or technology in approved academic institutions in Hong Kong. The application deadline is 16th November 2015.
Study Subject(s): Studentships are awarded in the field of natural sciences, medicine or technology in approved academic institutions in Hong Kong.
Course Level: Studentships are intended for those engaged in full-time study leading to a PhD degree.
Scholarship Provider: Croucher Foundation
Scholarship can be taken at: Hong Kong
Eligibility -These awards are intended for those engaged in full-time study leading to a PhD degree. Applicants must have obtained First Class Honours in their first degree. Otherwise they must obtain substantively an MPhil degree by September 2016 to become eligible (MPhil transfer to doctoral candidature is not considered as equivalent). Students in their final year of first degree may also apply, but any offer of award will be conditional on their obtaining First Class Honours upon their graduation by July 2016.
-Research Studentship holders must be full-time students.
Scholarship Open for International Students: Hong Kong permanent resident are eligible to apply for these Research Studentships.
Scholarship Description: The Croucher Foundation is a private endowment set up in 1979 and permanently domiciled in Hong Kong, with the objective of promoting excellence in natural sciences, technology and medicine in Hong Kong. One of the Foundation’s regular funding initiatives is to provide financial support for promising young people in Hong Kong to pursue scientific research at postdoctoral and doctoral levels. The awards offered by the Croucher Foundation Limited (“the Foundation”) are intended to enable applicants who are permanent residents of Hong Kong to devote themselves to a period of full-time study or research in natural sciences, medicine or technology in approved academic institutions in Hong Kong.
Number of award(s): Not Known
Duration of award(s): A Studentship will cover only up to and including the third year of the relevant PhD studies programme. This does not therefore necessarily mean that all recipients will get three years of support, e.g. a candidate starting the Studentship from the second year of his/her PhD study will get only two years of support, starting from the third year of PhD will get one year, etc. The length of the award will be explicitly stated in the grant letter when the offer is made. If the award is for more than one year, the candidate will in the first instance be “on probation” for one year, and the award for the remaining period is entirely at the Foundation’s discretion subject to confirmation upon evidence of satisfactory progress in the first year. All awards will be subject to the candidate’s acceptance by the institution in which he/she proposes to work.
What does it cover? The award comprises an annual cash award (currently at HK$80,000 per annum), and an academic development allowance of up to HK$15,600 per annum to allow recipients to attend conferences, workshops or courses during the tenure of their awards, and may be held concurrently with a university postgraduate studentship or another award.
Selection Criteria: Not Known
Notification: Short-listed candidates may be required to attend an interview in March/April 2016.
How to Apply: All applications should be submitted to the Croucher Foundation online. While proceeding with your application, please invite two referees to provide signed letters of reference for you (with your full name) under confidential cover to be sent to cfadmin-at-croucher.org.hk (in PDF), or fax to (852) 2730 0742 by the deadline above. Please make sure the following documents in PDF format (each not exceeding 8MB) have been uploaded to your application:
-a document, up to 6 pages in length, including:
-a proposal describing the research to be undertaken which should include the names of potential supervisors and their research groups. To ensure fairness in competition to all applicants, a proposal once submitted cannot be amended;
-a description of the candidate’s research experience, and a list of publications;
-copies of the applicant’s HKCEE and HKALE certificates (or equivalent) and transcripts of his/her university records;
-copies of reprints of the applicant’s three most significant publications (if applicable); and
-one set of relevant documentation to provide proof of identity in respect of the applicant’s status as a permanent resident of Hong Kong which is pre-requisite to the award. (For applicants who choose to use their ID card copies, please make sure that both sides of the ID card must be provided. The Foundation is not prepared to take an application any further if there is doubt of the residential status of an applicant upon incomplete documentation.)
Scholarship Application Deadline: The application deadline is 16th November 2015.
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