Eligibility
To be eligible for the Google DeepMind Research Ready programme, you must meet the following criteria:
- A resident in the UK and eligible to pay UK home fees.
- Be in the penultimate or final year of undergraduate study. OR have completed undergraduate study.
- Have achieved, or be on track to achieve, a final undergraduate degree grade of a strong 2:1 or 1st in Computer Science or an AI-related subject.
- Have an interest in undertaking a postgraduate research degree (MPhil or PhD) in Computer Science or an AI-related subject.
- Not have already completed, or be currently studying, a postgraduate degree (e.g. MPhil, PhD, etc.) or have an offer to start a postgraduate degree.
- Meet at least one of the following criteria:
- Have been eligible for free school meals at secondary school.
- Live in an area in the lowest two deciles according to a postcode measure such as IMD or POLAR. (If you are not sure, please use the included links to check).
- Have entered university at undergraduate level from a care background or as a Foyer resident.
- Have been in receipt of full state support for maintenance for their course of
undergraduate study. - Have been a young carer under the age of 18 or have/had caring responsibilities during your undergraduate study (providing unpaid support for a family who has a physical or mental health condition, or misuses substances).
- Receive/received the maximum Maintenance Loan for undergraduate study.
- Have refugee status.
- Be in the first generation of your family to study at undergraduate level.
- Be estranged from your parents/guardians.
- Be either a single parent, or lone guardian of a young person who is aged under 18 and/or is still in full-time education.
This programme is not open to applicants who have previously studied or are currently studying at the University of Cambridge. For current University of Cambridge students, please see the UROP internship scheme.
We also encourage applications from candidates who are not studying at a Russell Group university.
The Google DeepMind Research Ready programme welcomes applications from candidates who identify as belonging to groups that are underrepresented at postgraduate level at the School of Technology. These include the following:
- Mature undergraduate students/those who would be mature postgraduate students (i.e. aged 21 or over at start of undergraduate study of 25 or over at start of postgraduate study)
- Those who identify as belonging to one of the groups highlighted below:
- Ethnicity -
- Bangladeshi or Bangladeshi British
- Pakistani or Pakistani British
- Black - African or African British
- Black - Caribbean or Caribbean British
- Any other Black background
- White or White British and Black Caribbean or Black Caribbean British
- Any other White background (including Gypsy, Irish Traveller, Irish and Roma)
- Gender -
- Female
