Saturday, March 10, 2018

Masters in Disaster at University College London

We need many more disaster anthropologists.
Join us in London, UK to study for the following University College London Masters programmes 
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/rdr/graduate-study/masters-programmes in disasters at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (UCL IRDR). 
Applications are open until 27 July 2018.
We have scholarships for IRDR Masters Programmes for overseas students wanting to study in 2018-2019. These include (A) The Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme ; and (B) IRDR Scholarships for Overseas Students.
For further details please see below and the IRDR website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/rdr/graduate-study/masters-programmes

A) Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme - deadline 17th April
Applicants to the MSc in Risk Disaster and Resilience can apply for scholarship funding through the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme, if they meet the eligibility criteria below. The award will cover tuition fees, a maintenance allowance, economy air travel to and from the UK at the beginning and end of the scholar’s degree programme plus additional discretionary allowances. Eligibility Requirements: Applicants must:   


  - Be a Commonwealth citizen, refugee, or British protected person

  - Be permanently resident in a developing Commonwealth country (for a full list of eligible countries, see the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission terms and conditions

  - Be available to start your academic studies in the UK by the start of the UK academic year in September/October 2018

  - By August 2018, hold a first degree of either first or upper second class (2:1) classification, or lower second class (2:2) classification plus a relevant postgraduate qualification (usually a Master’s degree)

  - Not have studied or worked for one (academic) year or more in a developed country

  - Be unable, either yourself or through your family, to pay to study in the UK

  - Apply for admission to UCL for the MSc in Risk Disaster and Resilience (selected other UCL MSc programmes also eligible).


(B) IRDR Scholarships - deadline 27th April
The IRDR have four new scholarship awards for overseas fee paying MSc and MRes students in the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction for academic year 2018/19. All of these scholarships are awarded as a reduction in overseas full-time student fees, and are open to students applying to any of the following programmes:   


  - MSc in Risk Disaster and Resilience

  - MSc in Risk and Disaster Science

  - MSc in Space Risk and Disaster Reduction

  - MRes in Risk and Disaster Reduction