URSS Application 2021

The URSS is great opportunity lead your own research project, develop valuable transferable skills, enhance your CV and career prospects, as well as building your confidence.

This year the URSS funded 215 undergraduate students to carry out a summer project, with 45 students applying to carry out their research project.

To apply you will need to find a supervisor, an academic or post doctoral student, and discuss the project with them before applying. The URSS application is now open and should be completed in conjunction with your lead supervisor by the closing date of Sunday 28 February 2021 at 11:59pm. Please note that this is the absolute deadline and we will not be able to accept any further applications beyond this date. You will need to prepare the content of the application with your supervisor in advance in order to complete the online application.

The URSS application Review Board will meet in March and the outcome will be communicated by email to both staff and students in April 2021.

We are also pleased to announce that the EUTOPIA partnership are offering funding to carry out a URSS summer project at one of the EUTOPIA campuses. The application deadline is Sunday 28 February 2021..

First name

Family name

Uni ID

Home department

Year of study
(full-time equivalent if part-time)

Alternative email

Mobile number

Yes

Part 1 - Project Details (to be completed by the applicant)

Title of research project

What is your project? Explain your project to an interdisciplinary non expert audience (max 1000 characters)

How do you plan to carry out your project? (max 1000 characters)

How does your project fit in to the research culture of the department? (e.g. contributing to the knowledge base, community, internationally) (max 1000 characters)

What do you hope to gain from doing a URSS research project? (max 1000 characters)

Project Department/Centre

First name of academic supervisor (do not include title, Professor, Dr)

Last name of academic supervisor

Supervisor’s email

Name of additional supervisor (optional)

Length of project (weeks)

Proposed start date of project

Proposed end date of project

Please ensure that your project finishes far enough in advance of the URSS deadline to ensure that you have enough time to complete and submit the Moodle URSS Experience that is a requirement.

Yes

If yes, please provide details. Please not that you will be required to provide a full travel itinerary and risk assessment if you are travelling outside the UK.

Where do you plan to travel to? Please list all countries/cities (Leave blank if you are staying in the UK)

What is the estimated cost to carry out the project ? (£1000 max for UK/£1500 max for overseas projects)

Please include a breakdown of your anticipated costs that your bursary would support (e.g. accommodation, travel, living costs) The bursary cannot be used to purchase project-related equipment or services (e.g. laboratory consumables or other equipment, photocopying, library access cards).

Yes

If yes, what funding will you be applying for?

Yes

If yes, please state the year, your reasons for wanting to do another project and the additional skills and experience you hope to gain from this project. Please note that you are not eligible to apply for a urss bursary if you have previously received funding from the urss to carry out a research project. You may apply for alternative sources of funding (e.g. EGRP, Infineum, EPSRC etc)

Ethics consideration - you may want to discuss this with your supervisor before completing.

What are the ethical considerations of your project if any? (e.g. NHS, social care, human participants, data/tissue etc). If necessary discuss this with your supervisor (max 500 characters)

If ethics approval is required please provide details of how you will manage this (max 500 characters)

Personal Data

All successful URSS applicants may be invited to participate in other opportunities to showcase their research at University exhibitions and events, such as the International Conference of UG Research. This may involve passing your details and project information onto other departments within the University. If you do not wish your details shared, please tick here.

All successful URSS applicants may be invited to participate in other opportunities to showcase their research at University exhibitions and events, such as the International Conference of UG Research. This may involve passing your details and project information onto other departments within the University. If you do not wish your details shared, please tick here.

No

Terms & Conditions of Application Please note your application will be refused if you do not/cannot agree with all the Term & Conditions.

Terms & Conditions (required)

I am the student wishing to take part in this URSS project. By ticking the box I give my consent that I have read and agree to the Terms & Conditions set out by the URSS.

Part 2 - Departmental Support (to be completed by your Academic Supervisor)

Do you agree with the student’s research project proposals above? (e.g. dates, destination, budget,ethics etc) (required)

Yes

No

Please note that if the project is successful we will require full travel assessment details.

Is this part of an ongoing research project/initiative? (required)

Yes

No

If yes, what is the research project?

How many students will be working on the project? Please provide the name of all the applicants working on the project so we can assess the applications together by the same review pair. (required)

Supporting information from the supervisor about the project

How do you think this project will contribute to (a) the student’s learning and development and/or (b) the research culture of the project department? (max 1000 characters) (required)

What support will the student receive from the project department? (e.g. academic/post doc/phd supervision, lab facilities, desk space etc) (required)

Please note, the student's application will be refused if you do not/cannot agree with the Terms & Conditions set out by the URSS.

Terms & Conditions (required)

I am the lead supervisor and a full Warwick employee supporting this URSS application. By ticking the box I give my consent that I have read and agree to the URSS Terms & Conditions.

Privacy notice

This data on this form will be used in conjunction with the Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) at the University of Warwick. We will store this information and your contact details for 10 years for use only in conjunction with the URSS, but we will not send you information beyond that which you have requested.

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