Babraham Institute: does its research access programme summer placement sponsor a UK visa?

Unconfirmed. Babraham Institute publishes no sponsorship policy for its research access programme summer placement, so we cannot state a firm answer. The Babraham Institute is a biomedical research institute near Cambridge funded strategically by the BBSRC. Its annual Research Access Programme supports undergraduates in the middle years of a first degree to spend eight weeks on a research project in one of its scientific groups, with a core programme of events and activities about working in an academic organisation and career development. The Institute particularly welcomes applications from students from underrepresented or disadvantaged groups. Separately it accepts ad hoc expressions of interest in summer placements, where the student emails Group Leaders directly with a CV and covering letter and then completes a third party bursary application with them. Named bursary routes are BBSRC Research Experience Placements of up to ten weeks, Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarships of up to eight weeks, the Royal Society of Biology undergraduate research bursaries of six to eight weeks and the Amgen Scholars Program. The Institute also works with In2Science for Year 12 placements. No sponsorship position is published.