Terms And Conditions


Notes of award eligibility

  1. The University at which the applicant intends to study, and to which the award would relate, must be a UK Higher Education Institution.
  2. Applicants must have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least 3 years prior to the start of the studentship (the UK includes the United Kingdom and Islands (i.e. the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man).
  3. Awards cannot be made retrospectively.

Application

  1. All applications and supporting documents must be entirely electronic.
  2. An honours degree in a relevant subject (including civil engineering, geography, environmental science, ecology, statistics, physics or mathematics) is required, with at least upper second class honours.
  3. If an applicant has applied for or is applying for any other sources of grant funding, this should be stated in the application.

Assessment

  1. The review panel (comprising representatives from the BHS and JBA Trust) will review applications, assessing academic performance, references, and personal statements, and rank candidates accordingly.
  2. Short-listed entries will be reviewed by at least one academic and one practising BHS member.
  3. Short-listed applicants may be invited to a brief informal chat to discuss their application.
  4. The review process will be conducted in a spirit of equal opportunity, adhering to all relevant equal opportunities legislation, specifically including but not limited to age, gender, religion and belief, sexual orientation, race and disability.
  5. Review panel members must declare any specific interests through knowledge of individual candidates and must be excluded from review of any such candidates.
  6. BHS reserves the right to verify academic credentials by reference to the awarding institution.
  7. The decision of the review panel in the selection of students under this scheme is final and no correspondence will be entered into. No feedback on your application is possible.
  8. The successful recipient will be notified by email and/or telephone.

Payment of the award

  1. The recipient of the award is expected to pay their course tuition fees directly to the university. The recipient must then provide a copy of their receipt to the BHS Treasurer.
  2. After the BHS Treasurer has seen a copy of the tuition fee receipt, they will then arrange payment of the Studentship Award directly to the recipient via BACS transfer. The recipient will need to provide relevant bank details.

General

  1. Recipients of a Studentship Award agree to be named on the BHS website as well as the websites of any sponsoring organisations, unless there are specific extenuating circumstances.
  2. Recipients of a Studentship Award will be required to provide feedback on completion of the taught component of the course and on submission of the dissertation, detailing briefly the academic activities being undertaken on the course, and listing any factors affecting academic progress.
  3. BHS will not keep any funds paid by third parties: its options will be only to wholly use the funds for one or more student awards, or to return funds in full to the senders.
  4. BHS reserve the right to claim some or all of the studentship award back from the applicant in the event that the applicant does not complete the course. The amount reimbursed will be determined by the BHS committee and JBA Trust on a case by case basis.
  5. BHS reserves the right to advertise other studentship schemes in hydrology which we may become aware of, and subject to the permission of the promoters of such schemes.