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Dr Brian Rees Bursary

This significant bursary will cover a home student’s full fees and an annual substantial maintenance stipend for 5 years (stipend circa £10,000 per year).

For your chance to be successful in being awarded this bursary please read the criteria assessment below and apply using the application form by Monday 9 June 2025, 17:00.

Who can apply?

  • A home undergraduate student domiciled in the CF11 or CF24 postcode area starting their first year in 2025 and studying Medicine
  • A student who can demonstrate financial need (either receiving free school meals or an Education Maintenance Allowance)

What are we assessing?

  • Suitability against criteria
  • Personal ambitions

How to apply

To be considered for the Dr Brian Rees Bursary, please fill in the attached form by Monday 9 June 2025, 17:00.

Apply here

All applications will be considered by a panel. The panel’s decision is final, and there is no right of appeal. Applicants will not hear about the outcome of the application until after 17 August 2025.

This bursary has been generously supported through philanthropy. Contact: donate@cardiff.ac.uk with any questions.

The bursary is named after Dr Brian Rees who was a proud Welshman, doctor and rugby player. His medical career began as a general surgeon at the University Hospital of Wales. He was the lead cancer clinician from 2000-2006 and established a unit for the teaching of skills in surgery and laparoscopic techniques, which is used by many disciplines within the medical world. In 2000, he was awarded an OBE for services to medicine.

Please check your eligibility before making an application. Awards may be withdrawn if we later become aware successful scholars have not met eligibility criteria or to have provided false information.

  1. This significant bursary will cover a home student’s full fees and an annual substantial maintenance stipend for 5 years (stipend circa £10,000 per year).
  2. The home fees will be paid directly to the University
  3. The remainder of the bursary will be paid out as a maintenance grant to be used at the successful applicant’s discretion.
  4. The stipend will be paid in 3 instalments during the winter, spring and summer terms.
  5. The successful applicant must pass each year to access funding for the following year. If the student fails to meet the minimum pass grade the University reserves the right to reallocate funding to another student.
  6. The successful applicant will need to have firmly accepted an offer of a place by the relevant UCAS deadline on a first undergraduate full time degree programme at Cardiff University commencing study in the 2025-2026 academic year.
  7. The bursary is dependent on the student meeting the conditions of your offer, the bursary does not guarantee a place at Cardiff University
  8. The successful applicant will need to have enrolled by the date confirmed in your offer letter.
  9. If the successful applicant fails to enrol by the date stated, the University reserves the right to reallocate the funding to another student.
  10. The successful candidate will be expected to write a thank you email to the donor, submit an end of year report to show your progress and meet with the donor.
  11. The successful candidate may also be required for a photograph, and to submit a quote to help us publicise other bursaries internally and externally to the University.
  12. The student may be asked to participate in further opportunities to thank donors however the recipient may choose not to participate.
  13. All applications will be considered by a panel. The panel’s decision is final, and there is no right of appeal. Applicants will not hear about the outcome of the application until after 17 August 2025.
  • The successful candidate must be domiciled in the CF11 or CF24 postcode area
  • The successful candidate will be studying the Medicine undergraduate course
  • The successful candidate must demonstrate financial need (either receiving free school meals or an Education Maintenance Allowance)