Scholarships at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Applications are invited for an MSc studentship in Climate Change & Planetary Health, to start in the academic year 2024-25. This scholarship has been generously funded by the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation and the LSHTM Centre for Climate Change & Planetary Health in order to recruit one full time London-based intensive Masters student in 2024-25.

Funding

The studentship will provide:

• tuition fees (at the LSHTM Home or Overseas fee rate), and

• a student stipend (at the UKRI studentship rate, which is GBP 20,622.00 in 2023-24) for the duration of the award.

Eligibility

This scholarship is open to applicants intending to study the London-based intensive MSc in Climate Change and Planetary Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 2024-25. Only full-time students are eligible.

Applicants must meet minimum LSHTM entry requirements.

These studentships are open to applicants assessed as both ‘Home’ and ‘Overseas’ fee status. 

To be eligible for this scholarship, applicants must meet all of the following criteria:

• have a strong rationale on why they would like to study the MSc programme

• be able to explain how the MSc would enable them to pursue their anticipated career path linked to climate change and planetary health

• have received formal mathematics education beyond the age of 16 (e.g. secondary school exams, or mathematics modules in undergraduate or post-graduate degrees).

• confirm in writing that they would not otherwise be able to pay for the proposed programme of study