We shall now be able to offer full funding to the best MPhil or PhD applicants in need of support.
— Professor Judith Lieu
A new studentship fund for postgraduates in the field of New Testament Studies has been established at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge with a £1.2 million donation from the Kirby Laing Foundation, an educational and cultural trust.
The Kirby Laing Graduate Studentships will allow the best and brightest graduate students in New Testament Studies to study at Cambridge, regardless of financial background. The fund complements an earlier donation made by the Kirby Laing Foundation in 2007 to secure the future of the Lady Margaret Professorship in Divinity, the oldest Chair in the University, which was originally founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, in 1502.
Professor Judith Lieu FBA, the current Lady Margaret Professor, explained that each year a number of highly qualified students are unable to take up the offer of a graduate place at Cambridge because of a lack of funding. “We shall now be able to offer full funding to the best MPhil or PhD applicants in need of support, either from home or overseas, to cover both their fees and living costs," Professor Lieu said. “New Testament Studies at Cambridge has an international reputation for its breadth and for the excellence of its scholarship and research supervision. We expect keen interest in the Kirby Laing Graduate Studentships, which will be offered for the first time this year."
Read the full story
Image:Faculty of Divinity
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
_____________________________________________