Carnegie Vacation Scholarships

Carnegie Vacation Scholarships enable undergraduate students to develop their abilities and knowledge through the design and execution of an independent summer research project. The scheme is open to students from low-income households who are ordinarily resident in Scotland and enrolled on an undergraduate degree course at an eligible Scottish institution. Scholarships are intended to cover recipients living costs while they undertake their research, learning how to design and manage a self-developed project, gaining useful experience and skills in preparation for postgraduate study or the workplace. Students often see their research results published in academic journals or reported in conference presentations. The project must address a clearly specified research question or hypothesis and engage students in personal research over a period of 4-12 weeks between May and August. Projects must be supervised by an academic member of staff and can be based at the student's home university or another research organization.