Summer School Scholarships
Every year YCCSA runs a Summer Scholarship Programme which runs for nine weeks starting in July.
Applications for the 2019 Summer School have now closed. The School for 2019 runs from Monday, 8 July 2019 until Friday, 6 September 2019. Details of the Summer School for 2020 will be announced in the autumn.
If you have any questions about the Summer Scholarship Programme, please email yccsa-scholarships@york.ac.uk.
Background
YCCSA offers a number of interdisciplinary vacation scholarships to students from universities in the UK, EU and overseas. Students undertake 9 week placement during which time they pursue a research project with at least two academic supervisors from different disciplines.
Eligibility - All students who are committed to a course of study in the following year are eligible. This constitutes either a continuing undergraduate programme, or an offer for an MSc or a PhD has been given and accepted by the time applications have closed.
The scheme has supported 106 students over the last nine years working on interdisciplinary projects between the following Departments:
They proved to be an invaluable resource for academics to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations and students in turn receive training and experience of research.
- Past Scholarships offered from 2010 to 2018.
The scholarships carry a tax-free stipend and financial assistance will be given for travel expenses to and from York. Accommodation for successful students is available on the University of York Campus.
Projects for 2019
Applications for 2019 have now closed.
| No | Project Title | Supervisors |
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| 01 |
Tailored health-related information using the ‘magic triangle’ QoL assessment tool |
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| 02 | Citizen Science: Environment, Education and Activism Citizen Science (PDF  , 154kb) |
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| 03 | Automating the construction of the Tree of Life (PDF , 142kb) |
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| 04 |
‘Becoming human’: How did changes in group dynamics affect the emergence of |
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| 05 |
Creating a Carbon Computer – Unconventional Computing with Novel Nanomaterials |
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| 06 |
Dynamic Spectral modelling of Human Voice Directivity for Forensic Speech Science and |
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| 07 |
Spintronics-based reservoir computing with magnetic devices (PDF |
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| 08 |
What is (in) a relation? An interdisciplinary inquiry and applications on the |
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| 09 |
3D rendering of a viral genome organization from assembly kinetics data |
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Timetable for 2020
Applications for 2019 have now closed. The timetable for 2020 will be announced in the autumn.
Applying
Interested in applying? To apply you need to provide, as one PDF document:
- Your CV (maximum of 2 pages)
- A brief personal statement (maximum of 1 page) including:
- Which project(s) and/or which role(s) in (a) group project(s) you are interested in (as many as you like but in preference order)
- Your reasons for applying
- Your academic interest
- Your future aspirations
- A full written academic reference (not just contact details). Your application will not be accepted without this reference (maximum of 1 page).
Please note: Eligibility - All students who are committed to a course of study in the following year are eligible. This constitutes either a continuing undergraduate programme, or an offer for an MSc or a PhD has been given and accepted by the time applications have closed. If you are in any doubt, please contact yccsa-scholarships@york.ac.uk
Send these via e-mail as one PDF document to yccsa-scholarships@york.ac.uk Please note that your information will be made freely available to potential supervisors at the University of York and that by applying you consent to this.
If your referee would prefer to send the reference separately, they can do so to the email address above but we ask you to co-ordinate with your referee to ensure that the application and reference arrive more or less together. We cannot consider applications that are incomplete after the deadline has passed.
