Hop aboard for £10k towards a transport-related MSc

23/10/2024 |

Hop aboard for £10k towards a transport-related MSc

The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund is again running its Transport MSc Bursary programme, for the academic year 2025-26.

Up to eight bursaries of £10,000 each are available for a range of transport-related topics and are aimed at students who would not be able to afford to study without the bursary.

The Trustees of the Fund said they are hoping to encourage more people to study for a transport related MSc – both those who are new to the transport sector and people who are currently employed in the sector who may wish to add to their professional skills or knowledge.

The Fund prioritises applicants with a strong commitment to developing a new career or further developing their existing career centred in the highways and transport sector in the UK.

Applications are welcome from students of any age and background, including applicants who are mid-career.

Bursaries are available for both full-time and part-time studies and are intended to cover course fees.

People interested in studying for a transport-related MSc should initially speak to one of the 14 universities who run transport related MSc programmes. They are listed on the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund website.

Chair of trustees Ginny Clarke said: ‘We are keen to continue the life work of our founder William Rees Jeffreys by supporting today’s highways professionals to have access to high quality professional education, by funding once again the MSc Bursary scheme and look forward to hearing how this supports people to progress their careers.'

Dr Antoneta Horbury (pictured) was awarded a bursary to study for an MSc in Transport run jointly by UCL and Imperial College in 1992.

She said: ‘I was unsure what to do after university and the MSc in Transport looked interesting so I thought I would give it a go and have been hooked on transport ever since.

‘I stayed on at UCL and completed a PhD on "Automatic vehicle location technology: Applications for buses" in 1997.

‘Since then I have been a post doc at UCL looking at railway safety cases, a service planner at London Underground, a research analyst and principal transport planner at London Councils, a rail policy analyst at the ORR and the transport policy manager at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

‘I am now the director of policy and technical affairs at the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation and have the Bus Centre of Excellence within my team. I have enjoyed my career in transport enormously and I am very grateful to the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund for making it all possible.’

The deadline for universities to apply for a bursary on behalf of students is 27 June 2025.

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