newest scholarship de Rohan 2011 Oxfoord Brookes University, UK

newest scholarship  de Rohan 2011 Oxfoord Brookes University, UK

Study Subject: Creative Writing, English or History
Employer: Oxfoord Brookes University
Level:Masters

Applications are invited from students registering in the academic year 2011/12 for an MA in Creative Writing, English or History for this scholarship of £5,000. The Scholarship is open to full-time Home, EU and International students.

Applicants are invited to fill in and submit the application form, together with a CV, to Harriet Irvine, Senior Tutor by July 1st 2011. The Scholarship will be awarded to the candidate judged to have the greatest potential to make a difference to their subject, and for whom achieving an MA is likely to contribute significantly to their career and/or personal development. Academic achievement to date will also be taken into account.

Applications will be assessed on the basis of the statements make in the application and on previous academic achievement and performance by a panel to be convened by the Dean of School.
Background to the De Rohan Scholarship

Margaret de Rohan writes:

In 2006, at the time of the heroic ‘Bike to the Future’ venture, undertaken by Graham Upton (former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University), my husband, Maurice, and I pledged £5,000 for an Oxford Brookes postgraduate scholarship for one year if Graham successfully completed his ride. And, of course, being the man he is, he did.

Thus The Alison and Francis Gaillard Scholarship was born. Alison (nee de Rohan) and Francis Gaillard met and fell in love while reading for their BA degrees at Oxford Polytechnic in the early 1980s. They married in September 1985 and had their honeymoon in the Greek Islands.

A year later they returned to Greece to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.

A few months later – on 6 March 1987 – after a day trip to Bruges to see some of the art treasures there, they died together, within sight of Zeebrugge harbour, when ‘The Herald of Free Enterprise’ ferry capsized and sank in less than three minutes. One hundred and ninety one other people also died that tragic day.

In early November 2005, my husband, Maurice, was diagnosed with cancer. Despite a major operation and six months of chemo-therapy, he lost his valiant fight on 5 October 2006, and once again our family suffered a devastating loss.

But out of tragedy, good can often flow. It is now my great pleasure to establish a new postgraduate Scholarship – ‘The de Rohan Scholarship’ – in memory of Alison, Francis and Maurice – which will provide one postgraduate Scholarship in the School of Arts and Humanities (for one of the M.A. in Creative Writing, English, History or History of Art) per year for at least the next ten years.

For further information, go to:http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding_source/the_de_rohan_scholarship/