Background
Professor Mary Fowler, Master of Darwin College from 2012 to 2020, and great-granddaughter of Lord Rutherford, established the scholarship in 2022 in conjunction with Darwin College of the University of Cambridge. The scholarship is in memory of Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS, HonFRSE, Nobel Laureate (1871–1937). Lord Rutherford, who was a student at Canterbury College (BA, MA, BSc), the forerunner of Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, came to be known as the father of nuclear physics.
Darwin College, Cambridge, is a postgraduate-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It has around 700 students, who are studying in PhD and master's courses, and around 70 fellows. It is informal in nature; its community provides an atmosphere in which interdisciplinary work can flourish, and its community of scholars come from all over the world.
Value
For the duration of the Visiting Studentship (from two to twelve months):
- Admission fees and academic fees for a Visiting Studentship at the University of Cambridge.
- Specified privileges at Darwin College, Cambridge
Criteria
Applicants must:
- be enrolled in a programme for a PhD at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury.
- have been accepted as a Visiting Student by a department or affiliated institute of the University of Cambridge.
Preference is given to: (a) citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand and holders of Aotearoa New Zealand residence class visas; and (b) those studying in the areas of engineering, health sciences, mathematics, science, or technology.
The scholarship must be taken up in the year following the year of application.
See the Regulations for more detail.
