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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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Blogs & conversations

‘The Right to a Break’?

Drawing on her own experience of caring for her mum, and her work alongside unpaid carers every day, Fi Brown reflects on the “mental load” of caring – and what it means to protect carers’ mental health before crisis point is reached. With Scotland’s ‘Right to a Break’ marking a significant shift in care reform, she explores why a legal right must translate into breaks that are genuinely meaningful and restorative, with prevention at their core.

By Fi Brown, 20 February 2026

Blogs & conversations

‘The Right to a Break’?

Drawing on her own experience of caring for her mum, and her work alongside unpaid carers every day, Fi Brown reflects on the “mental load” of caring – and what it means to protect carers’ mental health before crisis point is reached. With Scotland’s ‘Right to a Break’ marking a significant shift in care reform, she explores why a legal right must translate into breaks that are genuinely meaningful and restorative, with prevention at their core.

By Fi Brown, 20 February 2026

Fellows' updates

February 2026 Fellows' update: Siân Evans

Siân Evans (CF 2011) recently graduated from the University of Sheffield with a PhD in archaeology. Her multidisciplinary research focused on female-made metal artefacts from the Imperial War Museum - and asked how gender provenance is understood in archaeometallurgy and how the culture of metalworking skills is curated and transmitted.

By Sian Evans, 18 February 2026

Blogs & conversations

Building together: rethinking teacher wellbeing and career sustainability

During her Churchill Fellowship in Ghana, Dr Chiedza Ikpeh explored how teacher wellbeing grows through community, adaptability, and shared responsibility. Speaking with teachers, she how collective approaches help educators thrive, even in challenging conditions. Witnessing this resilience reshaped how she understands teaching and what allows careers to be sustained over time, and Chiedza is now bringing this learning into her research and development work with teachers across the UK.

By Chiedza Ikpeh, 12 February 2026

Fellows' updates

February 2026 Fellows' Update: Lucy Peake

Lucy Peake CF 2024 was a guest on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Lucy who is the CEO of the charity Kinship, was talking about their new research that 40% of kinship carers are forced to claim benefits or increase their benefits when they step in to take on the care of a child from a family member. She explained why some kinship carers want the same parental rights as others in a parental role, like an adoptive parent.

By Lucy Peake, 12 February 2026

News

Migration event: understanding immigration in polarised times

We were delighted to host 'Understanding and Shaping Immigration and Cohesion in Polarised Times', an event bringing together Churchill Fellows, charitable trusts, and organisations to discuss migration, integration, and cohesion. The event was co-hosted with the think tank British Future.

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