Funding and Opportunities

Opportunities and funding that may appeal to Mathematics Students:

Warwick In Schools (WinS)

Previously the SAS scheme, this programme is open to students registered for IE3E1 Introduction to Secondary School Teaching.

WinS introduces students to teaching as a career by placing students in schools and providing training to prepare them for working with young people.

There is information on the very popular scheme at the website http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wie/wins/

Warwick In Africa

WIA

WinS students will be eligible to apply for a place on the Warwick in Africa Project in the summer of 2012. Students taught in schools in South Africa, Tanzania and Ghana in July and August 2010 & 2011.This is a project supported by Giving to Warwick that started 5 years ago with a handful of Mathematics undergraduates going out to South Africa, the success of which has led to the scheme expanding to more countries with support fort African teachers as well as students.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity! See the website for more background http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/giving/priority/responsibility/warwickinafrica.

Application information will be available in December, through the WinS Training Sessions.

The Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL)

The objective of the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning is to help shape teaching and learning across the University and disseminate, embed and raise the profile of new approaches and successful innovation. It aims to promote student engagement wherever possible. Its focus is

Academic literacy
Engagement with global culture
Interdisciplinary activity
Performance-based learning
Research-led teaching

IATL has funds for various activities, with deadlines throughout the year under their "Student as Producer" moniker including "Research Grants" and "Performance Grants" as well as money from their "Collaboration Fund" for joint projects between staff and students. Don't be put off by the names which suggest a theatrical bent, there have already been some successful Mathematics projects and there is another one taking place during the 2011/12 academic year.

More information on the funds can be found at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/funding/

The Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme (URSS)

URSS

Every year we have a number of students on this scheme spending the summer working on a research project with a member of staff. It pays a modest bursary to allow students to spend their summer having a go at research and has proved very popular in the past. You will need to find a member of staff willing to supervise, sometimes staff members will take the initiative and actively look for a student to do this with, other times it has been the student's initiative to find someone.

More information can be found here http://go.warwick.ac.uk/urss

Nuffield Undergraduate Research Bursaries

This is an external scheme that works in a similar vein to Warwick's URSS, it is limited to 4 applications per department, but acts as an alternative way to spend the summer doing some research. The department will attempt to coordinate applications for any students that are interested.

More information on this scheme at http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/undergraduate-research-bursaries-science

Lord Rootes Memorial Fund

The Lord Rootes Memorial Fund is intended to encourage personal development by supporting challenging projects proposed by individual and groups of Warwick students, especially projects:

involving observation and the intelligent use of experience in the scientific, cultural, environmental or business context.
demonstrating creativity of thought and the development of an original and personal idea or objective.

More information at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/topic/teachinglearning/rootes