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Analysis of Vacation Scholarships

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March 2019 deadline

1. Submissions and review process

1.1. Summary data

251 applications were received

7 applications were withdrawn

224 were sent for assessment by peer reviewers in the Scottish universities

121 awards were made, 33 of which were in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences and 88 in Science, Engineering and Technology – 11 awards have since been declined by the students

The total amount awarded was £264,500 with the average value of an award being £2,186

The scheme experienced an almost 60% increase in applications as a consequence of the expansion of the applicant eligibility criteria arising from the amendment of the Trust’s Royal Charter

It should also be noted that this is also the first round of the scheme in which students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and The Glasgow School of Art have been eligible to apply

1.2. Peer review process

In total, 109 Carnegie Reviewers contributed to the review process, 38 from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and 71 from Science, Engineering, and Technology.

Assessors were asked to review proposals against the following criteria:

Candidate fit

Academic ability

Significance and originality

Overall quality

A Selection Committee was formed to consider the short-listed proposals and the Reviewers’ comments. The

Committee consisted of members of the Trust: Professor Andy Walker, Dr Patricia Krus and Dr John Thompson.


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2. Awards and success rate

2.1. Overall success rate

Excluding withdrawn applications, the overall success rate was 49.6 per cent. The table below shows the numbers of

applications received and the awards made by university of affiliation:

University Applied Cancelled Withdrawn Awarded Success Rate

Abertay University 5 0 0 3 60%

Edinburgh Napier University 5 0 0 2 40%

Glasgow Caledonian University 1 0 0 0 0%

Glasgow School of Art 1 0 0 0 0%

Heriot-Watt University 8 1 1 3 38%

Queen Margaret University 5 0 0 1 20%

Robert Gordon University 2 0 0 1 50%

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 3 0 0 1 33%

University of Aberdeen 18 1 1 5 28%

University of Dundee 20 0 0 9 45%

University of Edinburgh 48 2 3 23 48%

University of Glasgow 53 2 0 24 45%

University of St Andrews 12 0 0 6 50%

University of Stirling 8 1 0 2 25%

University of Strathclyde 45 0 2 26 58%

University of the Highlands & Islands 8 0 0 4 50%

University of the West of Scotland 9 0 0 4 44%

Total 251 7 7 114 45%

Success rate excluding ineligible & withdrawn applications: 49.6%

The chart on the following page displays the proportion of awards made by university:


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Abertay, 3%

Edinburgh Napier, 2%Heriot-Watt, 3%

Queen Margaret, 1%

Robert Gordon, 1%

Royal Conservatoire, 1%

Aberdeen, 4%

Dundee, 8%

Edinburgh, 20%

Glasgow, 21%

St Andrews, 5%

Stirling, 2%

Strathclyde, 23%

UHI, 4%UWS, 4%


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2.2. Success rate by field

The following table provides a breakdown of applications by research area, excluding those that were withdrawn. Arts,

Humanities and Social Sciences subjects received 76 applications and Science, Engineering and Technology subjects

received 168 applications. Within Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Art and Humanities and Social Sciences

attracted an almost equal number of applications (39 and 37 respectively). Within Science, Engineering and

Technology, Health and Human Sciences attracted the highest number of applications with 41, followed closely by

Astronomy and Physics with 39.

Breakdown by Panel and Research Area Applied Awarded

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 76 33

Arts and Humanities 39 15

Social Sciences 37 18

Science, Engineering and Technology 168 88

Anatomy, Physiology and Neurosciences 4 1

Astronomy and Physics 39 27

Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology 5 3

Biological Sciences 10 5

Chemistry 25 15

Earth and Environmental Sciences 3 1

Engineering 13 9

Health and Human Sciences 41 20

Mathematics and Computer Science 13 4

Microbiology, Immunology and Developmental Biology 2 1

Organismal Biology, Evolution and Ecology 13 2

Grand Total 244 121

The doughnut charts on the following page display the percentage of applications and awards by research area,

excluding withdrawals.


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Arts and Humanities, 16%

Social Sciences, 15%

Anatomy, Physiology and Neurosciences, 2%

Astronomy and Physics, 16%

Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, 2%

Biological Sciences, 4%

Chemistry, 10%

Earth and Environmental Sciences, 1%

Engineering, 5%

Health and Human Sciences, 17%

Mathematics and Computer Science, 5%

Microbiology, Immunology and Developmental Biology, 1% Organismal Biology, Evolution and Ecology, 5%

Applications by Research Area

Arts and Humanities, 12%

Social Sciences, 15%

Anatomy, Physiology and Neurosciences, 1%

Astronomy and Physics, 22%

Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, 2%Biological Sciences, 4%

Chemistry, 12%

Earth and Environmental Sciences, 1%

Engineering, 7%

Health and Human Sciences, 17%

Mathematics and Computer Science, 3%

Microbiology, Immunology and Developmental Biology, 1%Organismal Biology, Evolution and Ecology, 2%

Awards by Research Area


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The below charts display the success rate by panel and research areas, excluding withdrawals. 43 per cent of

applications under the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences category were successful, whereas 52 per cent of

applications under Science, Engineering and Technology were successful.

The most successful research areas were Astronomy and Physics and Engineering both of which returned a success

rate of 69%, followed by Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at 60%. In a repeat of 2018 the lowest

performing research area was Organismal Biology, Evolution and Ecology with a success rate of only 15%, a 35 per

cent drop compared to the previous year.

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3. Equal opportunities

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4. List of Awardees

First Name Surname Title of the research project University Award amount

Asim Ali Microscale study of the mechanisms of erosion prevention by granular filters

University of Glasgow £3,000

Riya Atanasova Comparing inhibition and ironic process accounts of resisting desire

University of Dundee £3,000

Gulsevim Aydin A Microbial Defence-inspired Approach to Creating Chemo-compatible Cells for Industrial Biotechnology

University of Edinburgh £3,000

Kamilla Bonnesen Do we need orientation perception for successful letter posting?

University of Aberdeen £2,500

Eve Brandon Transgender Identities in the Medieval Past: Eleanor Rykener in Context


Skye Brettell p53 Degradation Using PROTACs as a Potential Approach to Cancer Therapy


Conal Brosnan Infrared Immersive Imaging. University of Glasgow £2,000

Aileen Campbell Clean Energy Production from Mammals' Urine


Jun Yu Chen Skin sodium accumulation and water balance in hypertension


Arianna Chiti Life-history trade-offs affecting scavenger fly fitness and species coexistence.

University of Stirling £2,500

Maureen Cohen Space Traffic Control: Monitoring Low Earth Orbit

Heriot-Watt University £2,000

Rosa Crevecoeur Investigation of factors affecting the extraction of Ta by a simple primary amide extractant


Lisa Crossley Developing a sensitive and simple field-effect transistor (FET) device for the detection of circulating tumour DNA.

University of Strathclyde £3,000

Teya Daneva Can Plant-Based Food Labels Attract Meat-Eaters?



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Aimie Davies Is the fitbit charge 3 a valid device for monitoring energy expenditure and heart rate during walking, jogging and running?

University of the Highlands & Islands

£1,500

Lewis Doak Characterising turns in community walking using an inertial sensor


Catalina Dobas Epsilon-near-zero frequency resolved optical gating (ENZ-FROG)


Fergus Donnan Compare Line Emission Pre- and Post-Outburst in S255IR

University of St Andrews £2,000

Ezra Dorsch Assessment of the limits and potentials of earthquake early warning systems for Europe


Alex Drysdale An affordable timing box for 3D fluorescence light sheet cardiac imaging.


Alan Duncan Evaluation of pharmaceutical particle agglomeration and breakage during agitated drying


Jennifer Duncan Investigating the role of the anti-cell death protein MCL-1 in macrophage mediated chemoresistance in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia


Catherine Eckersall Influence of the Environment on the People and Art of Iceland

Robert Gordon University £1,000

Annabelle Ferguson The effects of knocking out the autophagy gene Atg16l1 on type 2 helper T cells


Julia Fisher I want you to want to: How to make participatory performance which audiences want to participate in

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

£1,500

Patricia Foia Mapping optimization problems to Rydberg quantum computers


Alasdair Forsyth Vile Words and Dangerous Ideas: Is it right and proper to criminalise hateful speech?


Orrin Fraser

Self-Warning Hybrid Composite Repair Patches: A study into the Repair and Critical Status Monitoring of Cracked Aluminium Panels


Olivia Fraser Molecular mechanisms controlling plant growth plasticity



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Robyn Gee

From mean tweets to death threats: the problems with current legislation in regulating online speech in the United Kingdom.

Abertay University £1,500

Jamie Gemmell An Analysis of James Knight's "History of Jamaica" (1742).


Scott Gibb Developing Robotic Systems with Security in Mind


Robert Gilfillan A research project focusing on the Scottish Governments policy of Universal Free school meals for all P1-P3 pupils.

University of the West of Scotland

£3,000

Thomas Graham The Intrinsic Value of Democracy University of Glasgow £1,250

Julie Graham "Modelling of realistic fragmentation approaches for destructive analysis of re-entering space objects"


Eilidh Green The knowledge and views of GPs surrounding the healthcare entitlements of refugees and asylum seekers: a questionnaire study


Carolina Guidolin Optimal electrode positioning for cervical vagus nerve stimulation


Ferenc Gutai Computational modelling of decision making behaviour and synaptic plasticity in patients with schizophrenia


Synnøve Heimvik Re-assembling the Trampled Remains: Faunal Data from the Sieved Floor Contexts at Çamlbel Tarlas

University of Edinburgh £750

Grant Henderson Theoretical and simulation analysis of experiments with a Caesium Bose-Einstein Condensate at Strathclyde


Kirsty Hennen Time Course of Supraspinal Changes throughout 4 Weeks of Strength Training.

University of Stirling £1,500

Abbie Irving The effects of an anticipated regret intervention on intention to get the annual flu jag


Paul Jack Iron Age Furnaces: a data driven experimental approach to understanding the experience of metalworking in prehistory


£1,000

Linnea Johansson A sociological analysis of the efficacy of museum community engagement outreach programmes

Queen Margaret University

£2,000


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Daniel Johnston Analysis of the Compressible Blasius Equation using the Padé Approximant


Paulius Jonusas Frequency stabilization of a Helium Neon laser using a microcontroller


Alexia Karamoula Modelling proton transport in new liquid crystal electrolytes.


Elsa Larsson Numerical study of the performance of a laser plasma thruster in low-pressure environment


Gary Lloyd An assessment of stone Neolithic Spatulate Tools from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney.


£2,000

Lewis Longworth Exploiting Electron Spins for Quantum Information Processing


Aidan MacColl A Data-Driven Investigation Into Flight Path Trajectory Planning and its Optimisation


Katherine Macdonald The microbiology of diabetic foot infections University of Edinburgh £2,000

Jack MacLean Small Scale Autonomous Vehicles University of Aberdeen £3,000

Saumya Maheshwari Unlocking the global gene expression profiles from distinct populations of Kiss neurones


Calum Mallorie Investigation into the Performance of Deterministic Lateral Displacement Devices in the Inertial Flow Regime


Pasquale Giuseppe

Mandara Geminate attrition in Italian-English bilinguals residing in Glasgow: an acoustic and perceptual study


Bethany Martin Impulsivity and self-harm in the general population


Connie McAlpine Who and what gets represented on BBC Question Time?


Andrew McDevitt Accurate Weight Scale for Hospital Application



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Siobhan McDonald Factors Which Effect the Relationship Between Suicide Method and Location: A systematic Literature Review


Calum McDougall Radiative feedback and the evolution of molecular clouds in spiral galaxies


Cameron McEleney Negative Refractive Regions within Natural Crystalline Materials


Cheryl McGregor Defensive Forms / Forms of Defence: Masculinity, Insecurity and Mental Health in Post-war Poetry


Lisa McGuiness

Gendered help seeking in mental health; does the construction of masculinity impact on men engaging with therapeutic services in Scotland.


Niall McHugh Matter/Anti-Matter Asymmetries at the LHCb Experiment


Sarah McQuistan Measuring nanometer porosity in cements using positronium annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS)


Chloe Mellor Is the 'Face Inversion Effect' simply a 2D phenomenon?

Edinburgh Napier University

£2,500

Lennard Miller Chemical analysis and numerical modelling of pyroclastic density current flow from the July 2015 eruption at Volcán de Colima


Anna Miller Linking genes and compounds in fungi: The first steps to engineering brasilanes


Katherine Milne 20’s plenty? Evaluating the effect of 20mph speed limits in Edinburgh.


Andrew Minty A study of oxygen content and diffusion at the transition boundaries in zirconium alloys


Saoirse Murdoch A Study of Neuropathic Pain Characteristics in Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders.


Redha Nacef Optimisation of an Ultrasonic Levitator University of Aberdeen £3,000

Conor Nally Finding Protostellar Outflows in Carina University of Edinburgh £2,000


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Charlie Nason Analysing Barocaloric Materials for use in Refrigeration Technology.


Petras Nasvytis Targeting c-Myc in CML by modulating the PKC/ERK and p38 MAPK signalling axes.


Tabea Neumann Autobiographical memory retrieval and level of depression: a virtual reality investigation


Olivier Newman Cheap and Robust Electrocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction based on Nickel Bipyridine-Dithiolate Complexes.


Boyko Nikolov Coherent optical control of electron-nuclear spin states via Quantum Hilbert Hotel operations


David O'Connor Relations between two and three point functions on elliptic curves


Isabella Ogilvy Development of UV-NMR for Kinetic Monitoring of Organic Photo-switches


Toluwanimi Olatunji Drug repositioning in combination as an effective anti-leishmanial for Leishmaniasis.


£3,000

Myles Oliver Why is spin-orbit splitting at some crystal surfaces so much larger than in the bulk?


Molly Parry Development of Photoactive Porous Materials by Grafting Photoactive Groups on Metal-Organic Frameworks


Christopher Parsonage Development of compact quantum technologies using bespoke metal-ceramic vacuum components


Hristo Petkov CodRep: Machine Learning on Source Code Competition


Hamish Phelan Did British Cold War nuclear war films and public information broadcasts impact public opinion through news media?

University of Glasgow £750

Roslyn Potter Beyond Burns: Restoring the Lost Presence of a Forgotten Culture.


Lea Riehn The use of sea gliders to identify precipitation induced changes in the stratification of the Arctic Ocean.


£2,000


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Matthew Robb Optical ground station technology for satellite-based quantum communications


Finlay Rowe Fabrication of ultra-low loss mirrors for future gravitational wave observatories


Justinas Sakas Hyphenated nD NMR experiments for complex mixture elucidation


Kyle Sandilands A study of monolayer translation metal dichalcogenides.


Shuvam Sarkar Investigating the effects of clinically relevant sodium channel inhibitors in colon cancer cell invasion


Luzia Seeburger The Effect of Priors on Cosmological Analysis University of Edinburgh £2,000

Gintare Semyte Food labelling: are meat-based food descriptions more taste-focused than plant-based ones?


Marion Short Capsule Catalysed Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reactions


Zachary Sole Library for Compositional Game Theory University of Strathclyde £2,500

Oliver Speed Cosmological Radiative Transfer with GPUs University of Edinburgh £1,500

Stephanie Spence Needs not Deeds: The impact of mock children's hearing systems in professionals development.


£3,000

Marcin Stankiewicz Simulating a new model of quantum cosmology


Moa Sundström Psychological and physiological benefits of dance therapy for people living with Parkinson?s disease


Sophie Thrippleton

A Systematic Review of Cerebral Radiological Phenotypes associated with Mutations in Mendelian Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Genes


Spyridon Tsipis Silk hydrogels for drug delivery - assessment of drug binding and release



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Margot van Laar Roadmap to Gateway Earth: Geostationary Space Station Business Case and Legal Position.


Catherine Watson

Using high-throughput flow cytometry to identify inflammatory-mediating drugs that can enhance neutrophil killing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa


Jonathan Webb Pathways to scalable quantum computing University of Strathclyde £2,500

Rebekah Wood Effect of microplastic ingestion on the Common Brown Shrimp (Crangon crangon).


£2,000

Jason Yang Pilot Study for Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis using Infrared Spectroscopy


Luke Zhu

Does right ventricular strain by feature tracking magnetic resonance imaging predict outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease?


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