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Churchill Fellows work on the frontline of today’s crucial issues, developing new solutions based on global research and personal expertise. In this section you can find their latest views and advice, news, activities and events.
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Discover upcoming events from Churchill Fellows
Join our Fellows at events happening across the UK and online, where they share the global insights and learning gained through their Churchill Fellowships.
In Conversation with Sophia Alexandra Hall: Empowering care-experienced voices in the media
We spoke to Churchill Fellow Sophia Alexandra Hall about how her Fellowship helped shape her trauma-informed interviewing toolkit, now used across major UK newsrooms. Drawing on her lived experience and 50 interviews in the USA, she reflects on the need for safer, more empowering media practices for care-experienced and other under-represented people. She also shares how this work has grown through training, conference speaking, and an expanding public platform at Big Issue.
By Sophia Alexandra Hall, 4 December 2025
November 2025 Fellows' update: Chris Elliott
Professor Chris Elliott OBE (CF 1993) delivered the keynote speech at the 2025 Worshipful Company of Butchers (WCB) City Meat Lecture.
By Christopher Elliott, 27 November 2025
November 2025 Fellows' update: Sonia Shaljean
Sonia Shaljean (CF 2025) has been named National Agent of Change at the She Inspires Global Awards 2025, recognising her work addressing fatherlessness and supporting boys through positive male role models. Her organisation, Lads Need Dads, also recently contributed to the Centre for Social Justice’s national report.
By Sonia Shaljean, 27 November 2025
November 2025 Fellows' update: Darren Way
Darren Way (CF 2000) has recently launched a new Centre for Applied Research & Evaluation within his charity Streets of Growth.
By Darren Way, 27 November 2025
November 2025 Fellows' update: Dennis Gray
Dennis Gray (CF 1968) has published Essays from the Edge, a collection of twenty-one essays spanning fifty years of his writing on British climbing and mountaineering.
By Dennis Gray, 27 November 2025
November 2025 Fellows' update: Sophia Alexandra Hall
Sophia Alexandra Hall (CF 2023) featured in an episode of the Trauma-Informed Conversations podcast, exploring trauma-informed storytelling.
By Sophia Alexandra Hall, 21 November 2025
November 2025 Fellows' update: Sarah Yardley
Sarah Yardley (CF 2024) shared insights from her Churchill Fellowship at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Mental Health and Palliative Care: Tending the Mind, Body and Soul conference.
By Sarah Yardley, 20 November 2025
November 2025 Fellows' update: Marina Logacheva
Marina Logcheva (CF 2025) spoke at the Diversity and Inclusion in Leisure Forum NSW/ACT at the University of Technology Sydney.
By Marina Logacheva, 20 November 2025
Later living that makes the most of every moment
Amid growing pressures across housing, health, and care, Churchill Fellows Graham Russell and Oona Goldsworthy argue that the lessons from their Fellowships – integrated commissioning, mixed communities, and stronger collaboration – are needed more urgently than ever. They highlight how Brunelcare, the care charity they both work at, is beginning to apply these approaches, from reablement and redevelopment to community-focused work that aims to improve later living.
By Graham Russell ~ Oona Goldsworthy, 20 November 2025
Later living that makes the most of every moment
Amid growing pressures across housing, health, and care, Churchill Fellows Graham Russell and Oona Goldsworthy argue that the lessons from their Fellowships – integrated commissioning, mixed communities, and stronger collaboration – are needed more urgently than ever. They highlight how Brunelcare, the care charity they both work at, is beginning to apply these approaches, from reablement and redevelopment to community-focused work that aims to improve later living.
By Graham Russell ~ Oona Goldsworthy, 20 November 2025