Reed Innovation Scholarship

Overview

This scholarship has been established by Sir Alec Reed for undergraduate students of any discipline, to reward and encourage innovative and creative problem solving.

The scholarship is a £15,000 cash award, £5,000 paid each year for the first three years of study.

Am I eligible?

You must have minimum expected or final grades at GCE A-Level of AAA or equivalent and a strong scholarship statement.

You must demonstrate outstanding innovation and creative problem-solving skills, which will be assessed via your scholarship statement.

You will also need to hold a current conditional or unconditional offer to study at Royal Holloway before you can apply.

Application guidelines

You will need to complete a 400 word scholarship statement as part of your application (please note that statements that exceed the word count will automatically be rejected). This should include three ideas of entrepreneurs which you admire and three original ideas of your own. Your ideas could be inspired by the following themes:

• Solving an artistic, scientific or technical problem in a new or unusual way.

• A unique and distinctive solution to a problem faced by your school/college, club or community.

• Creating a new group, organisation, institution or product that meets an important need.

Applications must be submitted through RH Direct by 11.59pm (UK time) on Monday 9 May 2022. Applicants will be made aware of the outcome of their application after Thursday 19 May 2022.