Women in Construction Scholarship

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) is providing an industry scholarship for the RICS Diploma in Adjudication programme to attract talent and diversity into alternative dispute resolution in the construction-related industry.

RICS DRS is committed to seeing greater diversity in the provision of construction adjudication and is also a keen advocate of Women in Adjudication in the construction industry. In recent years, we have seen a slow but steady increase in women undertaking the RICS Diploma in Adjudication, completion of which is one of the criteria for inclusion onto the RICS Panel of Adjudicators.

This scholarship is open to women who are based in the UK, working in the construction-related sector* and who have an ambition to be involved in dispute resolution and adjudication specifically. This scholarship signals RICS’s commitment to encouraging greater diversity among those studying for our qualification and in the industry generally.

_{*This scholarship is also designed to help address the under-representation of non-lawyers in dispute resolution in the sector, and so is aimed at applicants engaged in construction per se, project management, quantity surveying, architecture, construction engineering, claims consultancy and other similar occupations.}

Applications now open for 2026

We are now accepting scholarship applications to join the Diploma in Adjudication starting June 2026. The application window will close on Monday 5 January 2026.

For the full details, including eligibility requirements, application process, full terms and conditions, important dates as well as the application form itself, please download the below document.

All completed applications must be submitted via email to drseducation@rics.org before the deadline.