Within the UK’s STEM-research community, students of Black or mixed Black heritage are underrepresented. To make a change, we have developed the R²Frontiers: BioSciences, Computing & Engineering programme, which is open to all year 2 and year 3 bioscience, computing and engineering students of Black or mixed Black heritage. This full scholarship opportunity will provide students with the multidisciplinary experience and skills needed to identify issues, source information and design solutions to critical global issues.
On the programme you will benefit from the following activities and experiences:
- work in teams on interdisciplinary projects
- have lectures from world-leading academics
- visit engineering, computing and biomedical sciences departments and research facilities
- have an opportunity to hear from, and network with, Imperial PhD students and postdocs
- take part in a competitive entrepreneurship workshop
- attend a social event
There is no cost to join the programme as this is a full scholarship opportunity! But please note, to be eligible to apply for this scholarship you need to be a UK (Home) student of Black or mixed Black heritage studying in year 2 or 3 of an undergraduate Biosciences, Computing or Engineering degree. The scholarship only covers tuition, you have to provide your own accommodation and transport within London. If you are travelling from outside London, the opportunity to exists to apply for the reimbursement of your travel costs. Please indicate within your statement if you would like to apply for this reimbursement. To apply, fill in the following details and give us a 150 word statement on why you would like to join the programme. In the event that places are oversubscribed, we will use the statements as tie-breakers.
BENEFITS: Intellectually-engaging fun! You will get to experience the benefits of multidisciplinary project-based thinking to identify issues, source information and design solutions to critical issues. A great opportunity to network with students from Imperial and other universities and to learn how to be creative, thinking laterally, collaborate and communicate across disciplinary boundaries, allowing you to build confidence in your own potential to be a proactive researcher/problem-solver. Other workshops will include Turning MY Vision into Reality and learning to be an Entrepreneur in 1 day. Opportunity to join world leaders in Africa Innovates Conference and network with over 200 Amos Bursary students on the last day of the programme.
Furthermore you will get the chance to hear from world-leading researchers in the Engineering profession specialising in the field of climate change, sustainability, randomized computing, artificial intelligent, 3D printing of structures, biomathematics, sickle cell, data science and deep learning, integrated space science and engineering during the 2 weeks spent at Imperial College London where there is a greater proportion of world-leading research than any other UK University and which is ranked 1st in the UK for research output, 1st for research environment and 1st for research impact (Research Excellence Framework, REF 2021). Imperial is currently the 2nd best University in the world and 1st in the UK and Europe (QS Ranking 2024).
DISCIPLINES: open to any discipline in Biosciences, Computing and Engineering. The design challenge will be based around solutions for humans facing difficult or extreme situations which need engineered solutions.
Find out more about Imperial College London’s engineering research.
“So many of the facilities were amazing, and it would be amazing to work in an environment like that.”
non-Russell Group University student, Year 2 Chemical Engineering
“Its given a show of the calibre and the teaching and the facilities available, so overall it’s given me an insight into studying at Imperial. And the postgrads that came around provided a lot of feedback as well.”
non-Russell Group University student, Year 2 Mechanical Engineering
“I’m actually thinking about going to Imperial now, the whole experience was good. They were talking about the scholarships available and seeing the Chemical Engineering display, the facilities were really good, better than what I’ve seen [elsewhere].”
non-Russell Group University student, Year 2 Chemical Engineering