Bursaries

The BCME 10 bursaries committee is pleased to announce bursary applications have reopened with a renewed and expanded eligibility criteria, so that Early Career Researchers, recent ITE graduates and teachers from all UK maintained schools and colleges are now eligible. More than 30 bursaries are available, including two Nick Lord bursaries*  

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 essential criteria for one of the pathways:

Teacher pathway

Essential:

1. Teaching in a UK maintained school or college (any of the four nations) or recently completed ITE in the UK (any of the four nations)
2. Based in the UK (any of the four nations)
3. Member of a JMC member body at the time of the conference e.g. AMiE, BSRLM https://www.jmc.org.uk/our-members/
4. Must be willing to provide a brief summary of the anticipated impact that attendance could have on their school or college after the conference.
5. Not in receipt of funding from another source.

Desirable:

6. Working in a school or college in an area of high deprivation or with high levels of disadvantage

Research pathway

Essential

1. Participating in a research degree (MA/MSc/PhD/EdD/MPhil) or an Early Career Researcher
2. Based in the UK (any of the four nations)
3. Member of a JMC member body at the time of the conference e.g. AMiE, BSRLM https://www.jmc.org.uk/our-members/
4. Must be willing to provide a brief summary of the anticipated impact that attendance could have on their research after the conference.
5. Not in receipt of funding from another source.

Desirable

6. Research relates to disadvantage, equity, or similar

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

• £150 for successful applicants from Northern Ireland and Scotland
• £100 for successful applicants from England and Wales

Bursaries will be paid after the conclusion of BCME 10 on receipt of a short report about impact.
Applications will remain open until 7th September and can be made via online form you can access here

Applicants will be notified of the bursary committee’s decision by 14th September.  
*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.