There's a good opportunity for those who want to study in the UK! Durham University's Geography department, in partnership with Collingwood College and the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), offers scholarship of £33,000 (for accommodation, visa, tuition and financial support during the course period) to international students who want to pursue a scientific (MSc) or social (MA) master's degree in Geographical Risk.
The scholarship will only cover one student and those interested must apply until April 15th of this year for master's degrees focused, for example, on Risk, Science and Communication; European Security; Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Hazard; Hydro-Meteorological Hazards. The courses last one year, starting in 2018.
Applicants must demonstrate that they intend to use the skills and knowledge acquired in the course for international and humanitarian purposes, specifying on the scholarship application form how they intend to implement this.
The scholarship may require the student to sporadically present their research and work at university events and/or have texts published on university platforms.
To sign up, go to scholarship application page and check the necessary documents and requirements before filling out the forms. O loveUK can help you in this step, maximizing your chances of being accepted.
Durham University Founded in 1832 in the city of Durham, England, this is the third oldest university in the country, after Oxford and Cambridge. Durham is a member of Russell Group and has students from more than 150 countries, offering a multicultural environment to the students.
The Archeology, Geography and Theology departments are among the top 10 in the world, while the Arts and Humanities departments are among the top 50 worldwide. The university has eight research institutes that are internationally leading in the fields of energy; risk and resilience; particle physics; medieval and pre-modern studies; and computational cosmology, with the partnership of great names such as Procter and Gamble, IBM, Dong Energy and Center for Process Innovation.
