Grants and grant making

The Trust provides ongoing support for medical and dental education at Barts and the London Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, through scholarships for undergraduate students, studentships for postgraduate researchers and support for the Dean's Benevolence Fund.

The Trustees work closely with Queen Mary University of London ("the College") in order to assess applications for funding from Barts and the London Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry ("the School") and to ensure that its funds are being used subject to the conditions of the grants and represent the best use of the Trust's resources.

The Trustees welcome applications for grants that accord with the College's strategy (including research grants) and other meritorious applications for funding to support medical and dental education at the School.

The Dean's Benevolence Fund

The Trust has made several grants to support the Dean's Benevolence Fund for the relief of student hardship. It works with the College and the Barts and The London Students' Association to assess the level of student need and how the Trust can help to alleviate this.

For more information on the Fund visit Queen Mary's information on University Hardship Funds.

HARP PhD Awards

The Trust supports pre-doctoral fellowships through the HARP PhD Programme. This is a doctoral training programme for health professionals, offering full salary and consumables for three years.

For more information on the HARP PhD Awards visit the HARP website - What is HARP?

Other grants

The Trust has also made substantial grants to fund:

• the Google Glass project to determine the availability and use of simulation in surgical teaching, training and assessment within the undergraduate curriculum and to run such a curriculum;
• two posts with the College’s Development Directorate for the sole benefit of the School, namely a Development Manager and an Alumni Officer;
• the fit-out of the William Harvey Research Institute, Charterhouse Square;
• the Chair of Vascular Inflammation at the Heart Centre;
• Early Career Research fellowships at the School;
• the Joan Adams Fellowship, a clinical academic training fellowship to provide funding for registrars in endocrinology at the School;
• student outreach workers, known as Explainers, at the Centre of the Cell;
• the development and delivery of a lay teaching associate programme in gynaecology for fourth year medical students at the School;
• the College's Pathology Museum in preserving its specimen collection for the benefit of future generations of students;
• recreational facilities for medical and dental students at Dawson Hall;
• a clinical lectureship programme at the School;
• the human tissue bank component of a major research project funded by Cancer Research UK;
• the QM Model, a four-year project run by the College to provide an innovative teaching and learning initiative that will broaden opportunities for the School's undergraduates within and beyond higher education;
• "Pride of Place", a project run by the Barts and The London Students' Union to educate and inform students and visitors about the history of Barts and The London;
• the post of Grants Officer at the School;
• the cataloguing, conservation and digitisation of the Barts archive; and
• the Chair (and other ancillary administrative positions to support the Chair) of the newly formed Institute of Population Health Sciences for five years.

Further information

Information about the lives of those after whom the Trust's awards are named is available in the list of biographies [PDF].