2017-18 Travel Award & Prize Winners

The funding has been awarded to a wide variety of projects and pieces of work and all of the 2017-18 awardees have been asked to provide the piece of work or a report on their project for which they received funding for. You can find out about these fascinating projects and read their reports by clicking on the students' pictures below and this page will be updated as the projects progress.

Hopefully reading these projects will inspire you to make your own application for the 2018-19 awards which we expect to open in November 2018.

Mary MacPherson Essay Prize

The Mary MacPherson Essay Prize is open to undergraduate students from any academic department of the College and is awarded for a piece of journalistic writing of high distinction. The subject of the essay is chosen by the candidate. For more information please read the Mary MacPherson Prize criteria.

 

Max Carey Memorial Prize

The Max Carey Memorial Prize is open to undergraduate students from any academic department of the College and is awarded for work which shows initiative and enterprise. The submission may fall within a student's degree speciality but the prize will not usually be awarded for activities carried out as part of a student's normal academic work. For more information please read the Max Carey Memorial Prize criteria.

Dame Felicity Lott 

The Scholarship is open to all final year students who intend to progress to a professional career as a performer of music. It is not limited to those pursuing a music degree. If pursuing a BMus degree, applicants must have taken Performance in the final year. Applicants must be able to provide evidence of excellence in their field as an intending professional musician, supported by a statement of their achievements and two references one of which must be from an academic at Royal Holloway. For more information please read the Dame Felicity Lott Award criteria.

 

Royal Holloway Travel Award & Santander Travel Award

The Travel Award is available to current students from any discipline and from any level (Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught or Postgraduate Research). The award shall be used towards travel, whether within the UK or abroad which enhances the student's academic work including travel to conferences. The award is also available to those who wish to travel in order to pursue an extra-curricular or cultural project which has an indirect benefit to their academic work. For more information please read the Royal Holloway Travel Award criteria and the Santander Travel Award criteria.

 

 

Helen Cam Award

The Helen Cam Award is given to contribute towards exceptional research expenses (other than normal subsistence) which are not covered by any other grant or award and is open to History graduates of the College, to other History students who are, or have been, registered at the College for a Postgraduate course and to Research Fellows attached to the Department of History. For more information please read the Helen Cam Award criteria.

 

Ethel Beatrice Abraham Award

The Award is to assist a graduate of Royal Holloway continue research or advanced study in Greek or Classics and can be used for the purchase of books or to assist with travel costs.

 

Peter Marsh Prize

Mr and Mrs J Marsh have endowed this prize in memory of their son Peter Marsh, who was a student at Royal Holloway College from 1979 to 1981.The award is given to an undergraduate student of the College, who will normally be in the second year of his/her course of study, to assist with a field project in ecology or conservation.

 

Irene Marshall Scholarship

Miss Irene Marshall was a student of Bedford College from 1907 to 1910. She died in 1943, making provision in her will for the foundation of this Scholarship. The Scholarship is open to students in the Faculty of Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, with preference being given to applicants in the Department of Geography.