From Left to Right: Ripin Kalra, Nikki Linsell, Dana Sagenkahn (representing the John McAslan Family Trust), Julia King, Nigel Vaz, Sophie Handler
The RIBA/ICE McAslan Bursary exists to support architectural and engineering students, graduates and newly-qualified architects and engineers committed to the progress of environmental and community issues in economically deprived areas in the UK or abroad.
The bursary supports individuals or teams for medium term projects (ideally between 6-12 months) in communities where the focus is on improving or modifying the physical environment to enhance the quality of life for the local community.
Ideally, projects have an environmental, ecological and resource conservation focus for the benefit of a deprived community and can involve individuals in hands-on building work for either a new-build structure or to rebuild/re-equip an existing building, public space or other infrastructure element.
One or more bursaries with values up to £10,000 (made available through the John McAslan Family Charitable Trust) will be provided to support an individual or a team for projects undertaken during 2008. Recipients are expected to contribute 25% of total project costs – either through in kind sponsorship or direct grants from other organisations or group fund raising.
Applicants must:
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be enrolled in a RIBA validated Part 1, 2 or 3 course or with candidate course status, in the UK or overseas or have been granted a place of study in a validated or candidate architecture course by the beginning of the period covered by the bursary (Part 2 only)
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be enrolled in a JBM-accredited undergraduate, or JBM-approved postgraduate, programme
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have graduated from a RIBA validated Part 1, 2 or 3 course or with candidate course status within the past 5 years and working in an architectural practice
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have graduated from a JBM-accredited undergraduate, or JBM-approved postgraduate, programme within the past 5 years and be working in the field of engineering
Preference will be given to applicants who are RIBA student, graduate or chartered members; or who are ICE members.
To apply, please download and complete an application form:
*Please note the deadline for receipt of applications in 2008 has now passed.*
Judging took place on Wednesday 23 April 2008 by the following panel members:
John McAslan, John McAslan & Partners
David Gloster, RIBA
Paul Jowitt, Sistech
Louisa Hutton, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
Bob Emmerson, Arup
George Henderson, RIBA Education Trust Funds Committee
Applicants will be notified of the outcome shortly after this date.
For further information please email: andrew.davies@inst.riba.org|, call: 020 7307 3678, or download previous bursary recipient booklet, 'Beginnings':
Recipients of the RIBA/ICE McAslan Bursary 2008:
Dr Heather Cruickshank - "Community Infrastructure in Rural Nigeria" - received £2,000
Sophie Handler - "Alternative Seating Arrangements (for pensioners in East London)" - received £2,500
Ripin Kalra - to revisit three sites in India affected by earthquakes and cyclones in the 1990s - received £6,000
Asif Khan and Julia King - "Mass Sustainability: Zero Carbon Chair and School Desk" - received £3,000
Nikki Linsell - to work alongside The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) - received £6,850
Recipients of the RIBA/ICE McAslan Bursary 2007:
Asif Kahn & Julia King - 'One Year House', refugee housing on the Thai-Burma border - received £7,242
Sophie Handler - 'How to Set Up Workable Interventions in Public Space for Older People in Newham' - received £5,000
Nikki Linsell - heads a team working with Architects for Aid on a project for the 'Conservation of Saxon Buildings in Transylvania' - received £3,290
Julia Bouvy - 'Regeneration of Embankment Life in West Africa' - received £1,000
Recipients of the RIBA McAslan Bursary 2006:
Claudia Amico - Building a workshop centre in the Community of Women (Cité des Femmes), Senegal - received £6,500
Craig Bamford - The displacement of Tuavi Ambau village, India - received £4,250
Recipients of the RIBA McAslan Bursary 2005:
Joann Tang - Pilot school outreach project - received £2,500
Pascale Scheurer - Introducing People in Space – the new generation of architecture - received £2,500
Henry Travers, Elizabeth Babister, Allan McRobbie - Proposal to develop a prototype third generation emergency family shelter - received £10,000