TheLaidlaw Foundation Leadership & Research Programme at Cambridge University is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of leaders. Undergraduates can apply in their first year of study.

→ Undergraduates (First Year)

The Fox International Fellowship is a graduate student exchange program between Yale University, USA and Cambridge. Selection in Cambridge is managed by Sidney Sussex College.

→ Postgraduates (PhD)

The Trinity Hall Prize in Student Journalism recognises excellence in journalism among students at the University of Cambridge. It is open to all Cambridge undergraduates and postgraduates in all fields of study.

→ Undergraduates & Postgraduates

Get financial support for your sporting participation. Applications are asses on the basis of sporting attainment and financial need.

→ Undergraduates & Postgraduates

£500 on offer to student book-collectors. The University Library is offering students the chance to win a cash prize by building and writing about their own book collection.

→ Undergraduates & Postgraduates

The Cambridge Climate Challenge, run by Cambridge Zero, empowers the next generation of climate entrepreneurs and innovators to make a difference. Prizes of up to £5,000 in cash are on offer for winning teams and runners-up.

→ Postgraduates & Postdocs

A national poetry competition with £1000 prize money.

→ Undergraduates & Postgraduates

Society for scientists founded in 1815. Membership is open to graduates of Cambridge and other universities who at the time of application are resident in or near Cambridge. Members are also known as Fellows, and become eligible for travel grants and research funding.

→ Postgraduates

Girton College has established the William Dusinberre Prize to support and recognise student research and engagement with the legacies and practices of enslavement.

→ Undergraduates & Postgraduates

The Gordon Duff Prize is awarded annually for an essay on a subject relating to the science or arts of books and manuscripts. It is open to all University of Cambridge members, students, staff and alumni. There is an award of £500.

→ Undergraduates & Postgraduates

An annual essay prize to stimulate intellectual discourse on themes related to the work of the Black Advisory Hub and provides an opportunity for students to make original contributions to conversations about Black student experiences at Cambridge. 

The awards focus on the processes and partnerships required to create significant economic, social and cultural impact from, and engagement with, research.

→ Postgraduates & Postdocs

The Trinity Bradfield Prize is a competition open to students and researchers with innovative science or technology ideas, offering up to £10,000 in funding, expert mentoring, investor connections and access to the Bradfield Centre to help turn an idea or research project into a viable business.

CSAR PhD Student Awards of £1,000 each, are intended to recognise outstanding research with real world application and to assist students to pursue their research or careers. Open to students in any discipline.

→ Postgraduates (PhD)

Since 1750, this annual poetry prize is for the best English poem on a sacred subject and comes with a cash prize of about £3000. Open to anyone with MA or MA Status (postgraduates).

→ Postgraduates

The Centre for Risk Studies, in conjunction with McKinsey & Company, runs an annual competition awarding a prize of £3000 for the best submission on risk management.

→ Postgraduates

The Cumberland Lodge Fellowship is a unique two-year programme for emerging changemakers. They offer 10 places each year for doctoral students and early career professionals ready to tackle social division and build more inclusive communities.

→ Postgraduates (PhD)

An interdisciplinary community producing world-class research and practice in the heart of Rome. Inspired by this remarkable city, staff and fellows collaborate across art, architecture, archaeology and the humanities, drawing on deep networks, skills and knowledge to contribute to the intellectual and creative cultures of the UK, Italy and the wider world. Lots of different funding awards available.

Compete in our Global Ideas Competition and qualify for an all-expenses-covered participation as a Leader of Tomorrow in the world’s premier opportunity for cross-generational debates: The St. Gallen Symposium.

→ Postgraduates

The national Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics is an annual competition open to all enrolled in UK universities. The winner from each category will receive a prize of £500, and the runner up £200. Revised versions of the two winning essays will be considered for publication in the Journal of Practical Ethics.

G-Research NextGen have a range of prizes, grants and funding available for undergraduates and postgraudates designed to support and celebrate students with exceptional academic potential in mathematics, computer science and related fields.

Iliad develops AI safety as a theoretical and experimental science through research, training and fieldbuilding. They offer a number of programmes.

→ Postgraduates

The Global Leadership Challenge (GLC) aims to help emerging leaders to grow in the wisdom and character required for responsible leadership that makes a difference in the world — leadership that doesn’t simply seek to fulfil personal ambition but furthers societies’ sustainable development.

→ Postgraduates

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize, run by the Stuart Hall Foundation, supports a new generation of writers. The prize is open to a range of stylistic approaches; academic, journalistic, creative, biographical or other modes of writing are welcomed, inviting entries from academics, journalists, students and other kinds of writers.

Annual Deadline: February

The awards are intended to give undergraduate students at Oxford or Cambridge an opportunity to travel abroad and extend their knowledge of foreign countries.

✪ External

Applications Open: December

The Mosley, Worts and Frere travel funds (the Travel Awards) are available to undergraduate and postgraduate students to encourage travel outside of the UK in pursuit of study or research.

✪ University

The Baltic Geopolitics Summer Schools offer a unique opportunity for Cambridge students to enhance their understanding of a region that is of strategic importance today in Europe. The summer schools are held by the Baltic Geopolitics Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics.

Annual Deadline: May

Administered by King’s College, the H E Durham Fund give small grants to undergraduates for the purpose of advancing, improving, or disseminating knowledge of human or animal life in health or in disease.

✪ University (King’s College)

The Devon Cambridge Society awards grants to current undergraduates from Devon or Cornwall for projects undertaken during the long vacation.

✪ University

Annual Deadline: March

Placements for volunteer tour guides to Europe’s churches and cathedrals.

✪ External

Applications Open: April

Internships for undergraduate and graduate students to experience the Ditchley model of leadership, engage in career development, learn new skills and participate in our network, as well as gaining exposure to new people and ideas.

✪ External

The Spectator magazine runs an annual internship with a double-blind application (They don’t ask for a CV or name) but ask for completion of tasks. You’ll come in for a week of your choosing in the summer. It’s a useful window into journalism and gives us the chance to meet new talent.

✪ External

The Fast Stream Summer Internship Programme (SIP) gives people from lower socio-economic backgrounds the opportunity to see what a career in the Civil Service is like. It puts talented undergraduates on a work placement in a government department. As a successful applicant, you’ll get an insight into the broad range of opportunities available across the Civil Service.

Each year, Spotify offers a range of opportunities across their business, product and technical teams in multiple locations around the world.

✪ External

The Trust supports research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health. They host 8-week Summer internships for current undergraduates.

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Read the Get Started Guide: Postgraduate Scholarship Applications with tips for finding and applying for funding. If you have questions, send us an email!

Special funding available only for Emmanuel students and recent graduates to undertake a year of study at Harvard, USA.

✪ Emmanuel

The Trust awards scholarships to make substantial contributions to the cost of tuition fees for one-year postgraduate courses in journalism at approved institutions (both in the UK or overseas) to Cambridge students.

✪ University

University aministered scholarships for study at American Ivy League Universities. Henry Fellowships (Harvard & Yale), Procter (Princeton) and Choate (Harvard).

✪ University

A prestigious one-year, fully funded master’s program in global affairs at Tsinghua University, China.

✪ External

Fully funded postgraduate studies at an Australian university for up to three years.

✪ External

Each year the Swiss Confederation awards Government Excellence Scholarships to promote international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and over 180 other countries.

✪ External

The Kennedy Scholarship is an academic award for study at at Harvard and MIT, USA.

✪ External

The Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship program provides funding for students from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to conduct graduate study at Harvard University.

✪ External

A fully-endowed, multidisciplinary leadership development program for graduate students at Stanford University.

✪ External

Annual scholarship awarded by Japanese Government to anyone who wishes to continue their studies in Japan. Grantees can pursue a postgraduate degree in any field as long as it is related to their area of expertise or previous study.

✪ External

If you’re not a British citizen then you can apply for a Rhodes Scholarship for postgraduate study at Oxford University.

✪ External

If you’re not a British citizen and want to continue your studies in Cambridge, you can apply for a Gates Cambridge scholarship towards a postgraduate course, including current Maters students seeking to undertake PhDs.

✪ University

You can make an appointment with the Careers Service to go over your postgraduate or scholarship application.

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