Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards

Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards (DHPA) is a scheme aiming to bring outstanding students from all over the world to come and study for PhDs in top rated UK research facilities. The initiative was launched by the Prime Minister in November 2003.

Candidate profile: The scheme is open to top quality science, engineering, medicine, social sciences and technology students who want to study for PhDs over a period of three to four years, at an average annual cost per student of £25,000 (up to an overall maximum of £75,000 per student) primarily to cover fees and maintenance. The over-riding criterion of the scheme is excellence and DHPA scholars should be easily recognisable as the “best of the best”.

About the course: The scheme is named after Professor Dorothy Hodgkin, a pioneering crystallographer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her work in determining the structure of important biochemical molecules. Advances in insulin treatment for diabetics are a direct result of her work. The awards were named in her honour in recognition of the work she undertook abroad in helping overseas students studying in the UK.

The scholarships are at 25 universities that have been selected to take part in the scheme e.g. LSE, University College London, Oxford, Cambridge, Reading…

For more details of the scholarships please visit www.rcuk.ac.uk/hodgkin.

What is covered by the scholarship:
The scholarships cover all university and college fees, travel to and from the UK, and basic living expenses for a single person.

Application details: Students wanting to apply for a DHPA should contact the individual recipient universities available at www.rcuk.ac.uk/hodgkin. A list of these universities, together with their DHPA allocations and primary contact for the scheme, to whom applications should be made, is available on the website above.