FOI_25-127 CHASE studentship 2025
Date of response: 01 May 2025
We have now considered your request of 21 March 2025 for the following information:
I wonder if you can provide some details so I can better understand the decision the committee have made such as:
Question 1. Could you say how many UEA applications in total were considered [for the CHASE Studentship 2025] and how many are being put forward to CHASE? (I believe there were 50 +2 Stuart Hall grants available amongst 9 institutions.)
Our response:
65 applicants applied to The Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE) 2025 student-led competition at the University of East Anglia. Of those, 17 went forward to the CHASE panel, as well as 2 reserve candidates.
Question 2. …for the Stuart Hall component, would you be able to say how many of the applications put forward to CHASE were from people of colour?
Our response:
<5.
On this occasion, it is not possible to provide all the requested information. The Act contains several exemptions that allow public authorities to withhold certain information from release. We have applied the following exemption to part of your request.
| Exemption | Reason |
|---|---|
| S.40(2), Personal information | Disclosure of some of the requested information would be contrary to the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulation |
We can confirm that the University does hold this data and we believe that the requested information, constitutes the personal data of individuals, as defined by Article 4(1) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, due to the small numbers involved, we consider these details are exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the FOI Act.
We believe that disclosure this data would be contrary to the requirements of Article 5(1)(a) of the GDPR; namely that information must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. These individuals would have no expectation that this information would be made publicly available, and we have not identified a lawful basis that would allow or require us to disclose this information. To ensure that we do not inadvertently release personal data in this response or in combination with other publicly available data, we have replaced all values between 0 and 4 in relation to the number of individuals with the value ‘<5’.