Sasha Roberts Scholarship

£3,000 stipend per annum split into two payments of £1,500 in October and January.

Friday 26 July 2024, 17:00 BST

• Applicants must have made a formal application to study on an MA programme in the School of English or the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Kent and be in receipt of a formal offer for September entry in 2024.
• All candidates who have applied for place on a taught MA programme by Friday 28 July 2024 will automatically be considered for the scholarship, regardless of their fee status, nationality or domicile.

Sasha Roberts joined the School of English in 1997 as a specialist in Shakespeare and the Renaissance. Promoted to a Senior Lectureship in 2006, and with an outstanding academic career unfolding, she was tragically killed in a road accident a few months later.

Sasha was a brilliant teacher, loved and admired by her students, a distinguished scholar, and a vibrant and innovative presence in the department. Her many publications included Women Reading Shakespeare - an anthology of criticism edited with Ann Thompson, a study of Romeo and Juliet in the Writers and their Work series, and a distinguished contribution to Shakespeare scholarship, Reading Shakespeare’s Poems in Early Modern England.

The Sasha Roberts Scholarship was set up by Sasha’s family, her parents Penny and Nigel, her husband Martin, and her son Lio who survived the crash that killed Sasha. A tree has been planted alongside a bench in the garden outside the School of English, both in memory of our sadly-missed colleague.