Competitions
The following is list of annual competitions for UK undergraduate bioscience students. Prizes and closing dates vary. Please note; if you would like any further information on any of the competitions or awards listed on this page, please contact the organisation organising the competition or award.
If you have details of any competitions or awards open to UK bioscience students you would like to add to the list please contact Dr Allison Carrington
International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition
Open to: Undergraduates
iGEM is an annual competition that encourages teams of undergraduate students to develop innovative synthetic biology projects based around biological building bricks, or 'BioBricks', in the same way that engineering students might develop a robot using standardised parts. http://igem.org/Main_Page
Stipends for the competition may be available from the Wellcome Trust, see http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Funding-schemes/
Royal Entomological Society Student Award
Open to: Undergraduates and Postgraduates
Submit an article about an Entomological topic that would be of interest to the general public. The article to be easy to read, in a popular style and no longer than 800 words.
http://www.royensoc.co.uk/awards/RES_student_award.htm
Society for Endocrinology Undergraduate Essay Prize
Open to all students currently studying on an undergraduate course.
The essay has to be endocrine-related and based on a topical aspect of endocrinology.
http://www.endocrinology.org/grants/prize_undergraduateessay.html
Society for Reproduction and Fertility Stewart Rhind Science Writing Prize
Open to: Undergraduates
Open to any undergraduate studying in the UK or Ireland, the essay must be about an aspect of reproductive biology and will be assessed on scientific content, style and topicality.
http://srf-reproduction.org/grants-awards/awards/stewart-rhind-science-writing-prize/
The Undergraduate Awards
Open to: Undergraduates
The world's largest academic awards programme is open to students in any field who are in their penultimate or final year of study or those who have recently graduated.
Candidates can apply with any piece of individual undergraduate coursework which received a CGS grade of B3 or higher. For full details visit the site at http://www.undergraduateawards.com/