Bursaries

The BCME 10 committee is pleased to announce a total of  47 bursaries, 40 funded by a supporting organisation and 7 Nick Lord bursaries* offered by AMiE.

These bursaries are a fixed-sum award that delegates may use flexibly for travel, accommodation, or conference fees related to BCME 10.

Eligibility criteria
Applicants must meet all of the following for one of the pathways:

A. Teacher pathway

1. Teaching in a UK maintained school (any of the four nations)
2. Based in the UK (any of the four nations)
3. Working in a school in an area of high deprivation or with high levels of disadvantage
4. Member of a JMC member body at the time of the conference https://www.jmc.org.uk/our-members/
5. Must be willing to provide a brief summary of the anticipated impact that attendance could have on their school after the conference.
6. Not in receipt of funding from another source.

B. Research pathway

1. Participating in a research degree (MA/MSc/PhD/EdD/MPhil)
2. Based in the UK (any of the four nations)
3. Research must relate to disadvantage, equity, or similar; must provide a short summary of their research
4. Member of a JMC member body at the time of the conference https://www.jmc.org.uk/our-members/
5. Must be willing to provide a brief summary of the anticipated impact that attendance could have on their research after the conference.
6. Not in receipt of funding from another source.

The supporting organisation bursaries have been allocated to each of the four UK nations as follows:

• Ten bursaries of £150 for participants from Northern Ireland
• Ten bursaries of £150 for participants from Scotland
• Ten bursaries of £100 for participants from Wales
• Ten bursaries of £100 for participants from England

The seven additional *Nick Lord bursaries will be allocated at the rates above to applicants from any of the four nations. Bursaries will be paid after the conclusion of BCME 10 on receipt of a short report about impact. Pathway A applications, that meet all the criteria, will be given priority. Applications will remain open until July 8th and can be made via an online form you can access here.

Applicants will be notified of the bursary committee’s decision by July 17th.

*Nick Lord was a member of the Council of the Mathematical Association (now AMiE) between 2002 and 2008. 
Nick believed that there was no point in doing mathematics if you could not communicate your ideas enthusiastically to other people, and, in particular, to school pupils. His belief was reinforced by an excellent series of Teaching Notes in The Mathematical Gazette, whose objective was to suggest ways to bring depth and enthusiasm into the ordinary mathematics syllabus.

He will be particularly remembered for his 20 years in charge of the Problem Corner within the Mathematical Gazette, during which time he supervised the selection of some 250 tantalising challenges for readers of the journal to tackle. These covered topics from combinatorics, conics and constructions to polynomials, probability and packing. His comments on the solutions were both rigorous and imaginative, and he was always keen to emphasise that a published solution is never the final word – there is always something new and unexpected to develop.