Eligibility

To be eligible for the Lady Ryder medical scholarships, you must:

• hold an offer to study on the MB ChB Medicine (A100) course in 2024/25 having been awarded a place following a successful interview, or are currently on year zero of the MB ChB Gateway to Medicine (A108)
• be a Home/UK student
• be resident in the United Kingdom
• be eligible for the financial support available from the UK Government (in the form of tuition fee and living cost loans from the Student Loans Company)
• have applied for or intend to apply for means-tested support from your regional funding provider (such as Student Finance England) and have consented to share your household income details with the University.

You must apply for means-tested support to enable the University to get confirmation of your household income from the Student Loans Company. However, you will not be required to take out any loans you are eligible to receive if you do not wish to take them.

Eligibility for multiple awards

Recipients of the following schemes are eligible to receive a Black Futures Scholarship:

• University of Bristol Bursary (or Access to Bristol/Bristol Scholars bursary)
• Accommodation Bursary
• Bristol Standalone Bursary

Recipients of the following schemes are not eligible to receive a Black Futures Scholarship:

• The Futures Scholarship
• The Black Futures Scholarship
• The Black Futures Vertical Aerospace Scholarship
• The Futures Plus Scholarship
• Cratchley Scholarship in History
• Qube Research and Technology Scholarship
• Sanctuary Scholarship
• VC Scholarship
• Lloyds Scholarship
• Anne and Peggy Sleigh Bursary
• Nicholl’s Arts Bursary
• Christopher Frederick Edwards Bursary
• Eilieen Drummond and Sheila Anderson (EDSA) Law Bursary

This list is reviewed on an ongoing basis and the University reserves the right to add further scholarships or bursaries at any time to ensure a fair distribution of funding.

The University operates a Financial Assistance Fund and several hardship funds. Recipients of the Lady Ryder Medical Scholarship can apply to these funds but the value of the scholarship would be taken into account during the assessment process.

Scholarships

The Lady Ryder Medical Scholarships will provide a living cost stipend of £7,500 per annum for five years of study, paid in termly instalments.

How to apply

Lady Ryder is part of the Additional Funding programme. You can apply from the Additional Funding page.

Assessment process

Information provided in the application will be used to determine which applicants display the most demonstrable need.

Priority will be given to applicants who:

• have a low household income;
• are from areas of low participation in higher education;
• are mature (over 21);
• have attended an aspiring state school;
• are care leavers, care experienced or estranged;
• have a disability.

Consideration will also be given to the information provided in your supporting statement.

Successful applicants

The University will make offers of a scholarship to successful candidates. Full details of the scheme being offered, including these terms and conditions, will be made available in the award notification.

Awardees are expected to reply to the scholarship offer notification and confirm their acceptance of the award, and the relevant terms and conditions, via email.

Successful applicants are required to provide regular updates on their academic progress (usually once a term) to the Lady Ryder of Warsaw Memorial Trust. These will be requested by the Development and Alumni Relations Office.

Reserve applicants

To ensure that all available funding is distributed, the University selects students to be on a reserve list. Such applicants will be notified accordingly.

Students on the reserve list may be informed at a later date that they have been offered an award, should funding become available.

Being placed on the reserve list is not a guarantee of an award.

Other criteria

To continue to receive scholarship payments, you should:

• be registered at the University, engaged with your studies, and have an attendance record of 80% or over;
• not be the subject of any investigations under Fitness to Practice;
• be eligible and have applied for means-tested financial support available from the UK government (in the form of tuition fee and living cost loans from the Student Loans Company);
• provide your (and, as appropriate, your partner/parents’/guardians’) consent to the Student Loans Company, via their regional funding provider, to share your household income data with the University.

Timetable

You will find out if your scholarship application is successful in early June 2024.