Guy Beresford Scholarship

Hatfield College is offering the Guy Beresford Scholarship of £15,000 for a full-time  student from the North East of England (including Cumbria) and from a lower income household, to study full-time for a STEM taught masters degree at Durham University, for the year 2025-26.

If you are considering applying for this opportunity, please contact: hatfield.scholarships@durham.ac.uk.

We would welcome queries from those who are thinking of applying for a Masters course or are waiting for offers to start their study in 2025-26.Applications will be considered on a rolling basis over the summer.

Please fill in the form here to apply.

Applicants who fit the eligibility criteria, including current Durham students, are welcome to apply. 

Eligibility

- Applying for a taught masters course in a STEM subject at Durham University for academic year 2025-26. We welcome applications from those who have not yet received an offer of study but we would need the successful candidate to have received an offer in time for the beginning of the academic year 2025-26.

Eligible courses are those based in a Department within the Science Faculty, plus the Master of Science programmes offered by the Department of Archaeology: Bioarchaeology, Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology and Human Bioarchaeology and Palaeopathology and the following from Geography:  MSc in Climate, Risk and Society and MSc in Environmental Hazards and Risks.

- Have been from a lower income household in the final year of their undergraduate degree, University. This will be tested through evidence of the assessment by Student Finance England of income data made available to the awardee’s University in the final year of their undergraduate studies, or, in the absence of evidence of a recent such assessment, by other relevant means as defined by the University.

- Be from the North East of England. North-East students, eligible home postcode regions: CA, DH, DL, NE, SR or TS.

Queries:

If there are any other queries to be made about the Guy Beresford Scholarship, please contact: hatfield.scholarships@durham.ac.uk. Please refer to the Guy Beresford Scholarship in the subject of your email.