The Geoffrey Kneebone scholarship is available for a full-time postgraduate student studying MSc Mathematics for Applications or MSc Mathematics of Cryptography and Communications at Royal Holloway.

The Geoffrey Kneebone scholarship is offered as a £1,000 tuition fee reduction, and applications should be received by the closing date on 1 July 2021.

One scholarship is available for a student with Home or international fee status.

Find out how to apply on the Scholarships page here:

Remembering Geoffrey Kneebone

The scholarship is named in honour of former Bedford College Mathematician Dr Geoffrey Kneebone, and was founded by two of his former students, Dorothy Foster and Glenys Ingram.

An alumnus of University of London, Geoffrey Kneebone taught at Bedford College when it was a women's college. In the mid 1960s the College became fully coeducational and Dr Kneebone remained at Bedford College for the rest of his career, where he was promoted to Reader in the Foundations of Mathematics in 1964 and Reader in Mathematics from 1976 until he retired in 1983. Two years after he retired, Bedford College merged with Royal Holloway College to become Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.

Dorothy Foster was a student at Bedford College during the early 1950s, graduating with a BSc in Mathematics in 1956. She described the Mathematics department at Bedford College as being:-

"... quite small in the 1950s and staff-student relations were informal and friendly. All our lecturers had a heavy teaching load, not uncommon at that time, so there was no provision for weekly tutorials. Nevertheless, Dr Kneebone, as well as giving excellent lectures, always managed to discuss our weekly written work with us individually. In our first year both he and Mrs Kneebone invited us to their home. On revisiting him on the occasion of the sesquicentenary celebrations of Bedford College in 1999 he was as friendly and welcoming as ever."

(source credit MacTutor Maths histories)