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After feeling disheartened by unsuccessful postdoctoral fellowship applications, I came across the Churchill Fellowship, offering a unique opportunity for people who are passionate about improving a specific issue in the UK to go and look at how things are done elsewhere. It seemed like a great opportunity to have some real, focused impact.
By Lizzy Winstone, 2024
After feeling disheartened by unsuccessful postdoctoral fellowship applications, I came across the Churchill Fellowship, offering a unique opportunity for people who are passionate about improving a specific issue in the UK to go and look at how things are done elsewhere. It seemed like a great opportunity to have some real, focused impact.
By Lizzy Winstone, 2024
Through my travels across North America, I soon realised that urban agriculture can, and should be, a transformative force reshaping the fabric of our cities and our relationship with food and each other.
By Leanne Werner, 2024
Mark Walsh recently retraced his Fellowship journey to the USA, this time accompanied by his family. Here he reflects on what has happened since his original trip and what his Fellowship means to him.
By Mark Walsh, 2024
Sgt Laura Gibson works with Police Scotland’s Partnerships, Preventions and Community Wellbeing Division focusing on mental health and suicide prevention. A Churchill Fellowship took her to the United States to explore the wellbeing and resilience support and training offered to people working in law enforcement.
By Laura Gibson, 2024
Will our grandchildren still be able to enjoy our beautiful planet’s current biodiversity at the end of this century? Philip Seaton asks how we can safeguard biodiversity for future generations.
By Philip Seaton, 2024
In February 2020, I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to explore how we can make physical activity ‘business as usual’ within cancer care. The Fellowship was an experience of a lifetime, allowing me to travel to the USA and Canada to learn from world leading experts.
By Beth Brown, 2024
Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the time when I was drafting my application for funding from the Churchill Fellowship. I had toyed with the idea of applying for some time. I had signed up to the mailing list a few years ago and every year, when the applications opened, I would be reminded of what an amazing opportunity it sounded.
By Jessica Smith, 2024
As a social worker working with children moving onto adoption and before that with children in foster care, I've long wondered how children can be supported to process the feelings of grief and loss of separation.
England and Wales imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in Western Europe according to a Prison Reform Trust Report. And in 2015, I became one of those imprisoned citizens.
By Jacob Hill, 2024
Way back in 2011, I was fortunate enough to be awarded a Churchill Fellowship and travelled to the USA to compare and contrast services available to military veterans that had struggled to adjust to civilian life.
By Tony Wright, 2024
Way back in 2011, I was fortunate enough to be awarded a Churchill Fellowship and travelled to the USA to compare and contrast services available to military veterans that had struggled to adjust to civilian life.
By Tony Wright, 2024
