New Student Bursaries Launched for 2023
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CAT’s Graduate School of the Environment is once again able to offer bursaries to new students accepted to study with us from September 2023, thanks to generous donations from CAT supporters, members and charitable trusts.
For five decades, CAT has inspired, informed and enabled people to take action on environmental issues. CAT students and graduates are making a real difference across industries and sectors, developing and implementing climate solutions and making positive change happen.
Today, our postgraduate courses on practical solutions for a sustainable future are respected across the world. We aim for these courses to be as accessible as possible. Confronting climate change requires work on a global scale, with ideas and solutions coming from people from all backgrounds and disciplines.
Bursaries help us share climate solutions with an even wider and more diverse audience. The bursaries we offer ensure our courses are available to students who otherwise wouldn’t be able to study at CAT. They help them be inspired and gain knowledge to kick-start their careers as changemakers working in sustainability.
A previous recipient of a CAT bursary, Sonia Brookes, said: “I feel extremely fortunate to have received a bursary, allowing me the opportunity to pursue my passion for learning about sustainable solutions for climate change at the Centre for Alternative Technology. Being the recipient of the Sir John Houghton Bursary enabled the financial pressures of education to be preceded by an enthusiasm and awareness towards furthering my education, engaging with the mission of caring for our environment.”
Sonia graduated from CAT last year and now works for sustainable architecture firm Architype as Architectural Assistant & Passivhaus Designer. In 2022, she was also named the Young Architecture Scholarship Winner at the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru.
Applications for the bursaries are now open for people starting to study with us in 2023. Find out more about them and if you’re eligible below. We hope to see you at CAT soon.
The Llwyngwern Bursary
The Llwyngwern Bursary, named after the transformed slate quarry CAT calls home, was launched in 2022. CAT members kindly funded the bursary to support two new MSc students to study climate solutions on a CAT Graduate School course.
Motivated by CAT’s mission to inspire, inform and enable humanity to respond to the climate and biodiversity emergency, the bursary will this year be offered to two students starting our courses in September 2023. It will be awarded to a student on our MSc or MRes Sustainability and Adaptation course and another on our MSc Sustainability in Energy Provision and Demand Management course. The Llwyngwern Bursary will cover 75% of their tuition costs.
The Sir John Houghton Bursary
Worth £4,500 each year, the Sir John Houghton Bursary will be awarded to a promising student with an excellent academic record and a passion for finding solutions to the climate crisis.
The late Sir John Houghton, former co-chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientific Assessment Working Group and former Chief Executive of the Met Office, made a generous donation in 2016, which allows CAT to provide the bursary on an annual basis.
Sir John said, “I have spent a lifetime studying the atmosphere and the climate and latterly have been concerned with the reality of human induced climate change. I now want to help the next generation tackle this serious problem, possibly the biggest the world faces.”
The Ethel and Gwynne Morgan Trust Bursary
The Ethel and Gwynne Morgan Trust funds a bursary for a student starting one of CAT’s Graduate School of the Environment postgraduate courses. The bursary supports students who aim to use the skills and knowledge gained on the course to develop positive solutions to climate change in Wales. We are able to offer a bursary worth £4,500 each year, until 2024.
The generous donation from the trust, the main aims and activities of which focus on the advancement of scientific education in Wales, will partly fund a student who would otherwise be unable to study on a postgraduate course.
A representative from the Ethel and Gwynne Morgan Trust said: “Climate change is a challenge for us all. The aims of the Ethel and Gwynne Morgan Trust include educational advancement and environmental improvement. One of our trustees visited CAT recently and told us of its commitment to reducing the national carbon footprint and its innovative educative programme. So, we are delighted to offer a bursary with a focus on learning and research to reduce climate change and the development of a sustainable future for generations to come.”
The Rose Jessica-Maia Bursary
The Rose Jessica-Maia Bursary was created in 2021 to honour the memory of Rose Jessica-Maia. The annual bursary will enable one new MSc student who has experienced, or is experiencing, mental health difficulties to have half their fees paid for them. The bursary will be open to students on the following MSc courses: Sustainable Food and Natural Resources, Sustainability and Ecology, and Sustainability and Behaviour Change.
Applications for all bursaries are now open and will close in May 2023. For further details on how to apply, see our Fees and Funding page.
To find out more about applying for one of our postgraduate courses for 2023 entry, get in touch with our Graduate School Marketing Officer, Alis Rees.
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