The Anglo-California Foundation Scholarships
Guidelines

Pembroke and King’s Colleges are pleased to announce a graduate student exchange with the University of California, Berkeley, through the Center for British Studies at Berkeley. In support of this exchange the Anglo-California Foundation of San Francisco has generously provided $30,000 for scholarships. These scholarships are intended to support graduate student exchanges between Berkeley and Pembroke or King’s; they will cover the extra costs of accommodation, travel and research involved as well as a modest stipend. Berkeley students will be offered accommodation at either Pembroke or King’s College; Cambridge students will be offered accommodation and board at International House at Berkeley.

For the academic year. There will be a minimum of two 12-month scholarships of $15,000, or a maximum of four 6-month scholarships of $7,500. These scholarships will be evenly split between students from the two institutions. Scholarships will begin on 1st August for 12 or 6 months, or from 1st January for 6 months.
Requirements
Applicants must be registered graduate students at University of California, Berkeley, and either Pembroke or King’s College, Cambridge.
Applicants from Berkeley must need to conduct doctoral research in the UK during their fourth or fifth year of study. Applicants from Cambridge must be in the first or second year of doctoral study when taking up the scholarship: current M.Phil. students intending to continue to a Ph.D. in  are eligible to apply, as are Ph.D. students in their first year of research.
Applicants will be expected to demonstrate how their studies would benefit from working in the archival collections and intellectual environments of the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley. Applicants should identify and contact a faculty member at the host institution who can oversee their studies. Preference may be given to those working in the broad area of British Studies, but Pembroke and King’s students working in any discipline may apply.

Application Procedure
Application forms are available from the Tutorial Office, and may also be downloaded from the websites of the Center for British Studies at Berkeley and Pembroke or King’s Colleges.

The deadline for applications is 5pm on 14th March . Applications must include:
A completed application form
1 page curriculum vitae
500 word description of their research project or proposed course of study which justifies their choice of either a 12 month or 6 month award and identifies a supporting faculty member at the host institution.
A signed and sealed letter of recommendation from their supervisor. Potential applicants at Pembroke and King’s should also ask their supervisor to write in advance with any questions to the Senior Tutor.

Successful candidates at both institutions will be notified by the beginning of April.
Responsibilities
Scholarship holders will be mentored by the Senior Tutor at Pembroke or King’s College and by the Director of the Center for British Studies, as well as an appropriate member of the faculty at the host institution who will help direct their studies. They must immediately notify the above of any change of address or deviation from their proposed course of study on the exchange.
Students will be expected to submit a 500-word report, together with a brief progress report from their adviser, to the Anglo-California Foundation every six months for the duration of the scholarship. If possible, successful applicants will also be expected to attend the annual Center for British Studies reception at Berkeley in mid-September.
Students will be expected to make their own travel and living arrangements. Students from Cambridge studying in Berkeley will use the scholarship to meet their administrative, visa and insurance costs (currently around GBP 600 or $900), their accommodation expenses (eg. bed and board at International House is currently $10,000 pa), as well as research and travel expenses. They should not regard the award of the scholarship as reason to apply for a suspension of their usual funding.

This year’s commissioned carol for A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols uses the text of GK Chesterton’s poem ‘The Christ Child Lay On Mary’s Lap’.
The composer Gabriel Jackson said, ‘I had a fairly clear idea of the kind of text I was looking for. Having written a neo-medieval carol for Truro Cathedral three years ago I decided to look for a 19th/early 20th century text this time, ideally one that hadn’t been set before.’
‘While writing the piece I was thinking all the time about the wondrous space that is the King’s chapel, the special atmosphere of the service, the acoustic of the building, and the unique sound of the King’s choir in that building.’
The Director of Music Stephen Cleobury commissions a new carol each year for A Festival of Nine lessons and Carols, the Christmas Eve at King’s. Past composers have included Lennox Berkeley, Thomas Adés, Judith Bingham and John Rutter. Gabriel Jackson is also a renowned composer of choral music. He has written pieces for the BBC, the Tate Gallery and the National Centre for Early Music.
Now that it is finished I cannot wait for Christmas Eve,’ he said, ‘to be there in the Chapel at King’s and to hear my piece quietly take its place in the age-old rite, as Stephen and his choir work their magic once again.’

for more information;

http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/news/2007/ACFoundationScholarships.html