Orskov Foundation: Dr Neville Suttle scholarships Grant

The Ørskov Foundation is offering the Dr Neville Suttle scholarships for graduate students from low-income countries, focusing on sustainable land use and poverty alleviation. Grants of up to £2,500 will support online or in-person training costs. Eligible students must demonstrate university support and commitment to relevant training. This initiative aims to promote education and sustainable practices in developing regions.

About the Ørskov Foundation
Professor Bob Ørskov made a significant contribution to research and graduate student education, especially in developing countries in Asia and Africa. In recognition of this, in 2004 his colleagues and contacts established a trust, in his name, to promote the education of graduate students from developing countries, and to ensure the development of sustainable land use through relevant research projects. The ultimate goal is to have a positive impact on poverty alleviation and provide sustainable environmental benefits.
In the past years we have offered grants for students to receive training to supplement their studies, on subjects related to sustainable land use and poverty alleviation. In 2024 we paused this scheme but we are happy to announce that in 2025 we are again welcoming applications from students. These 2025 awards are titled "Dr Neville Suttle scholarships” in memory of the late Dr Suttle, who has kindly supported the Ørskov Foundation.
Guidelines
If you are a graduate-level student in a lower income country, working on a subject related to sustainable land use and poverty alleviation, and you need extra training, then our grant scheme may be of interest to you.
The Trustees will only consider projects with a budget up to a maximum of £2,500. This is the upper limit, not an indication that you should request this amount.
The type of items that we will fund depend on whether you have applied for ‘online’ training (that does not require travel) OR in-person training (that does require travel
For the ‘online’ students grants, we are open to supporting any item or cost which is required to enable access to online training. This can include, enrolment charge by the course provider, the cost of network data charges, the cost of local travel to access a site with reliable internet connection, the cost of a device such as a tablet to enable online learning to be efficiently accessed. We will not fund international travel for these grants for online training.For the ‘in-person’ travel grants, you can apply for local and international travel costs including flights, accommodation and visa costs. You can also apply for training fees, enrolment charges, lab-books or other essential equipment needed to do the training. We will not fund the cost of laptops or data connections for these grants for travel to in-person training.

Eligibility

If your application does not meet all the following criteria it will not pass the initial shortlisting for consideration by the Trustees.Applications must be from students registered at university in a country classified by the UN as lower middle income, or low-income. For applications made October-December 2023, for training to be completed in 2024, grants are provided EITHER to support costs of online training OR to support the costs of travel for in-person training. The choice of online or in-person training affects what types of cost are eligible to claim for us.Training can be provided by any university or research organisation, but not the university/college with which you are normally registered, at the time of the application.Eligible students MUST be registered for graduate degrees (e.g. Masters or PhD level) and MUST be able to demonstrate that they have full support from the relevant university department/organisation that they are seeking training from.

Ineligibility

Applicants registered at universities in other countries will NOT be funded.Applications seeking funding for equipment only, or attendance at conferences, will NOT be funded.Applications seeking scholarships to cover the costs of complete Bachelor, Masters or Doctorate courses, or parts of Bachelor, Masters or Doctorate courses will NOT be fundedApplications seeking funding to cover the costs of Bachelor, Masters or Doctorate research projects will NOT be fundedApplications that cannot demonstrate any relevance to sustainable poverty alleviation will NOT be funded.Applications from students studying degrees unrelated to agriculture, land use or the environment will NOT be funded.Training outwith these areas will not be funded.