April 2026 Fellows' update: Nina Smith
Nina Smith (2023) spoke at Westminster Insight’s Delivering RSHE in Schools conference, sharing learning on supporting staff to deliver relationships, sex and health education.
By Nina Smith, 30 April 2026
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April 2026 Fellows' update: Nina Smith
Nina Smith (2023) spoke at Westminster Insight’s Delivering RSHE in Schools conference, sharing learning on supporting staff to deliver relationships, sex and health education.
By Nina Smith, 30 April 2026
April 2026 Fellows' update: Rachel Bolton-King
Rachel Bolton-King (CF 2019) has co-authored a chapter in the upcoming book, “Handbook to Gun Violence in Society”, set to be published in April.
By Rachel Bolton-King, 1 April 2026
March 2026 Fellows' update: Timothy Gill
Tim Gill (CF 2017) has co-authored a report Streets for Play, Streets for Freedom, published by the NGO Playing Out, calling for a ‘child lens’ in transport policy to address the impacts of car-centric planning on children’s health and wellbeing.
By Timothy Gill, 31 March 2026
March 2026 Fellows' update: Patrick Vernon
Patrick Vernon (CF 2018) has been appointed UK South representative to the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council.
By Patrick Vernon, 31 March 2026
March 2026 Fellows' update: Jeff O'Loughlin
Jeff O’Loughlin (CF 2025) presented his Churchill Fellowship research at the Palliative Care Congress, exploring a psychosocial framework for assisted dying in the UK.
By Jeff O'Loughlin, 27 March 2026
Songwriting for Confidence, Self-Expression, and Connection
During her Churchill Fellowship, songwriter Hannah Louise Partridge – known professionally as Anna Anise – explored how collaborative songwriting retreats in the United States help musicians build confidence, connection, and lasting creative networks. Drawing on visits to six retreat programmes, she reflects on the power of shared creative space to support wellbeing and sustain musical careers. Now applying this learning through her organisation CHORUS Songwriting CIC, she is developing retreats that strengthen community and widen access to songwriting across the UK.
By Hannah Louise Partridge, 26 March 2026
March 2026 Fellows' update: Judith Vickress
Judith Vickress’s (CF 2023) spoke at the National Rural Crime Annual Conference 2026, the first conference focused on vulnerability in rural areas.
By Judith Vickress, 25 March 2026
March 2026 Fellows' update: Emma Tilley
Emma Tilley (CF 2020) had her PhD research cited in the Law Commission’s final report on burial and cremation, which supports her recommendations (see pages 302-308) on the importance of burying unidentified remains to preserve opportunities for future identification through DNA testing and genetic genealogy.
By Emma Tilley, 20 March 2026
March 2026 Fellows' update: Martin Gaywood
Martin Gaywood (CF 2023) delivered an online talk, Conservation Translocations: Moving Species to Restore Nature, hosted by the UHI Institute for Biodiversity and Freshwater Conservation.
By Martin Gaywood, 20 March 2026
Call for contributors with lived experience of palliative and end of life care
We are seeking 2–3 people with lived experience of palliative and end of life care – whether as a patient, carer, family member or community advocate – to contribute to the concluding phase of the Churchill Fellowship Palliative and End of Life Care (PEOLC) Programme, delivered in partnership with Marie Curie.
Call for contributors with lived experience of palliative and end of life care
We are seeking 2–3 people with lived experience of palliative and end of life care – whether as a patient, carer, family member or community advocate – to contribute to the concluding phase of the Churchill Fellowship Palliative and End of Life Care (PEOLC) Programme, delivered in partnership with Marie Curie.