Undergraduate Research Assistantship Scheme

Following an extremely successful inaugural year the Research Board is delighted to announce the return of the Research Assistantship Scheme for 2008. Awards will be made to researchers (not directly to the student) to allow them to provide an undergraduate with 'hands-on' experience of research during the summer vacation, to gain an insight into scientific research and to encourage them to consider an academic career.

The scheme is a prestigious award that marks out a student as a future researcher and potential academic. It is hoped that the senior researcher, to whom the award is made, will develop the student's potential and interest in research.

• Applicants must be members of the Society who are active researchers employed by a UK HEI, who may then appoint an undergraduate student who is finishing the penultimate year of their degree to become their Research Assistant in the summer break before the start of the final year of their degree.
  
• The award provides a student stipend at a weekly rate of £200, for a 6-8 week project.

One of the grants will be given to an animal welfare project, funded by The Standing Committee for the Welfare of Animals in Psychology (SACWAP) Vacation Scholarship Award Fund.

Further details, including the full criteria and an application form, can be obtained from liz.beech@bps.org.uk