Cambridge Trust Gonville & Caius Tammy Chen Studentship

The Cambridge Trust Gonville & Caius Tammy Chen Studentship is intended to support one postgraduate Masters student who wishes to apply for Arts/Humanities subject (excluding Law and Judge Business School-run courses). The Studentship will contribute £12,000 towards the costs of one postgraduate Masters student with home fee status. The award is being offered in partnership with the Cambridge Trust, with a £6,000 contribution from the Cambridge Trust and a £6,000 contribution from the College. Candidates are expected to be of outstanding academic ability and preference is given to those who put Caius as their first-preference college. The Tammy Chen Fund was established in memory of Tammy Chen, a PhD candidate at Caius killed in a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso in August 2017. Tammy, originally from Canada, was completing a PhD in International Development, focusing on poverty, gender and women's empowerment. In 2011, Tammy co-founded and ran a Canadian registered charity called Bright Futures of Burkina Faso, which sought to extend both education and microcredits to women in some of the poorest parts of the world.