The researcher announced at the time she received the award, one of the most prestigious and well recognized, that she would donate the entire amount to the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland to create scholarships for women, ethnic minority communities and refugees interested in pursuing physics. To this end, the Bell Burnell Scholarship Fund has been established for graduates.

The fund will provide additional money to PhD students in the Physics Departments of Great Britain and Ireland. Scholars will already have a standard doctoral grant from any university they want or are going to attend. So this is a supplementary fund to help because some of these people may have more needs.

According to Bell, the Institute of Physics (IOP) agreed to administer these grants and has been responsible for defining the requirements for applications.

Northern Irish astrophysics wants to show with this type of funding that it is not only white middle-class men who do PhDs in Physics. For the researcher, diversity strengthens the place and therefore she wants to promote greater diversity within the field of physics. This is how she experienced it when she received her doctoral scholarship at the University of Cambridge in 1965. At that time, she was one of the few women there and one of the few people who were not from the south of England. This made her work very hard and as a result of that effort she discovered radio pulsars in 1967.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell will go down in the history of Physics for many reasons: for having discovered a new type of star, for having been ignored by the Nobel, for her effort, for having inspired many researchers and now for having given the $3 million scientific prize with the greatest endowment for more people to study Physics.