Scholarships

Eligibility

Applications are open to post-graduate students, e.g. Masters or PhD, enrolled at any university worldwide. Applicants must be the lead researcher on the research project (e.g. their thesis, dissertation, etc).

Value

Each scholarship winner will receive $2000 USD, without any restrictions on how the money is spent. The winner will receive free access to 1000minds software for their project, if they wish to use it.

Dates

Applications close on 1 December each year. The scholarship will be awarded by 25 December.

Selection criteria

• Overall merit (including significance and novelty of the application)
• Applicant’s academic record and relevant experience
• Quality of the research proposal

Selection process

Applicants will be short-listed by a panel of at least two 1000minds staff. Short-listed applicants may be asked to present their research proposal in a 20-minute Zoom call. The panel will make the final decision.

The panel is not obligated to make an award in any year if it determines there are no applications of sufficient merit.

Winners 2025

Bravo! Congratulations to Marta Staff of University of Exeter and David Wagaba of Makerere University.

Marta and David are this year’s winners of the two 1000minds $2000 USD scholarships offered to post-grad students worldwide. Marta and David also received 1000minds academic licenses for their projects.

Marta Staff

University of Exeter, UK

Marta’s project is to use 1000minds to develop a prioritization tool for allocating donor human milk available through community provision to infants in need who cannot access their mother’s own milk. A broad range of stakeholders, including experts and members of the general public, will be consulted to determine the relative importance of the prioritization criteria.

David Wagaba

Makerere University, Uganda

David is using 1000minds to create an antenatal web-based app for identifying and prioritizing pregnant women at risk of miscarriage. Five hundred obstetrics and gynecology experts will be involved. The app will be piloted in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Congo, and then disseminated to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa and translated in to multiple languages.

Winners 2024

Hooray to Natalija Momirović of Institute of Forestry, Serbia and Jaber Ghorbani of University of Nebraska-Lincoln!

Natalija and Jaber are this year’s winners of the two 1000minds $2000 USD scholarships offered to post-grad students worldwide. Natalija and Jaber were also awarded academic licenses to use 1000minds for their projects.

Natalija Momirović

Institute of Forestry, Serbia

Natalija is using 1000minds to develop a decision-making tool for assessing the risk of torrential floods with the aim of reducing the enormous damage and destruction, including loss of life, caused by torrential flooding. The project will be applied to Serbia’s Rasina River watershed upstream from the Ćelije reservoir.

Jaber Ghorbani

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Jaber’s project is to use 1000minds to rate antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs) arising from antibiotics administered to animals according to their threat to human health. The many thousands of ARGs potentially present in water samples taken from two agricultural watersheds across Nebraska and Iowa will be assessed.

Winners 2023

Bravo, Mostafa Ismail of Cairo University and Andre Poyser of the University of Otago!

Mostafa and Andre are this year’s winners of the two 1000minds $2000 USD scholarships offered to post-grad students worldwide, as well as receiving academic licenses to use 1000minds for their projects.

Mostafa Ismail

Cairo University

Mostafa’s project is a techno-economic MCDA evaluation of alternative approaches to decarbonizing energy generation using hybrid technologies for large-scale industrial applications, e.g. including wind, solar and fossil fuels (to be phased out). A case study is performed of Egypt’s Abu Rudeis Oil District, which is rich in wind and solar resources and electricity is currently generated by 11 gas turbines.

Andre Poyser

University of Otago

Andre’s project was gifted the te reo Māori name, He Tiro Whānui Ki Ngā Tikanga Mō Te Pūtea (An Overview of the Principles of Finance). Using a discrete choice experiment, the project seeks to uncover the most important Māori values driving investment and spending decisions informed by mātauranga and tikanga (Māori knowledge, beliefs, values and customs).

Winners 2022

Congratulations to Jack Powers of Queensland University of Technology and Paul Schneider of the University of Sheffield!

Jack and Paul are the inaugural winners of two 1000minds’ $2000 USD scholarships offered to post-grad students worldwide. Jack and Paul were also awarded academic licenses to use 1000minds for their projects.

Jack Powers

Queensland University

Jack’s project is about prioritizing patients for elective surgery (an important 1000minds application since 2004). In the context of Queensland’s health system, he will develop a prioritization system that supports clinicians’ decision-making.

Paul Schneider

University of Sheffield

Paul’s project is a head-to-head comparison of 1000minds’ PAPRIKA method and the “Online elicitation of Personal Utility Functions” (OPUF) method that he co-developed. OPUF and PAPRIKA are used for valuing people’s Health-Related Quality of Life.