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

Please select which project/s you are interested in and mark these clearly in your application.

Note: 25 January, another project has been added.

No	Project Title	Supervisors
01	Tailored health-related information using the ‘magic triangle’ QoL assessment tool Quality of Life (PDF , 113kb)	Dr Angelika Sebald - Chemistry Professor Christina van der Feltz-Cornelis - Health Sciences  Mr David Mitchell - YCCSA  Dr Sarah Allen - Health Sciences
02	Citizen Science: Environment, Education and Activism Citizen Science (PDF , 154kb)	Dr Lynda Dunlop - Education Dr Sarah West / Alison Dyke - Stockholm Environment Institute Dr Lizzie Rushton - Institute for Research in Schools
03	Automating the construction of the Tree of Life (PDF , 142kb)	Dr Jon Hill - Environment & Geography Dr Katie Davis - Biology
04	‘Becoming human’: How did changes in group dynamics affect the emergence of our species? Becoming human (PDF , 106kb)	Dr Penny Spikins - Archaelology Professor Calvin Dytham - Biology Jennifer French - Institute of Archaeology, UCL
05	Creating a Carbon Computer – Unconventional Computing with Novel Nanomaterials Creating a Carbon Computer (PDF , 111kb)	Dr Matt Dale - Computer Science Dr Simon O'Keefe - Computer Science Dr Andrew Pratt - Physics Dr Martin Trefzer - Electronic Engineering
06	Dynamic Spectral modelling of Human Voice Directivity for Forensic Speech Science and Virtual and Augmented Reality Spectral modelling (PDF , 147kb)	Dr Helena Daffern - Electronic Engineering Dr Gavin Kearney - Electronic Engineering and DC Labs Dr Jez Wells - Music Amelia Gully - Language and Linguistics
07	Spintronics-based reservoir computing with magnetic devices (PDF , 119kb)	Dr Richard Evans - Physics Dr Angelika Sebald - Chemistry Professor Susan Stepney - Computer Science Dr Matt Dale - Computer Science Jack Dewhirst - Computer Science
08	What is (in) a relation? An interdisciplinary inquiry and applications on the nature of relations and relational processes What is (in) a relation? (PDF , 155kb)	Professor Susan Stepney - Computer Science Professor Richard Law - Biology/Mathematics Dr Ana Teixeria de Melo - Centre for Social Studies, Univerity of Coimbra, Portugal Dr Leo Caves - Independent Researcher, Portugal Dr Phil Garnett - York Management School
09	3D rendering of a viral genome organization from assembly kinetics data 3D rendering of a viral genome (PDF , 162kb)	Pofessor Reidun Twarock - Biology/Mathetmatics Dr Eric Dykeman- Mathematics Professor William Latham - Computing Dept, Goldsmiths Dr Lance Putnam - Computing Dept, Goldsmiths Professor Stephen Todd - Computing Dept, Goldsmiths

Timetable for 2019

Timtable for applying for the Summer School 2019 

• Thursday, 10 January - projects will be published at noon and applications will be accepted from this date
• Friday, 22 March noon - deadline for applications
• Friday, 29 March - scholarships will be awarded
• Week comencing Monday, 01 April - successful and unsuccessful students will be notifed

Applying

Interested in applying? To apply you need to provide, as one PDF document:

1. Your CV (maximum of 2 pages)
2. 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
3. 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.