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Andrew Fischer, a Harding Scholar in the second year of a PhD in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, will present his first conference paper, "Hardly a Virtue: Loyal Service in Medieval Japan", at the Loyalty in the Medieval World conference.The conference will be held at the University of Lincoln and sponsored by the Haskins Society, the Battle Conf…

Ange La Furcia, a Harding Scholar in the fourth year of a PhD in Latin American Studies, has been awarded the Honorable Mention in the SSSP's Gender Division's Student Paper Competition Award.Ange will receive a plaque in recognition of his Honorable Mention, awarded for her paper "The lived experiences of beauty and grammars of the maricada in the…

Francesca Gardner, a Harding Scholar in her 2nd year of a PhD in English, has created the embroidered cyanotype "Ariadne" (2024). This work is pictured above, and will be featured in the Cosmoscope Exhibition at the Torriano Meeting House in London throughout March 2024.Writing about this work, Francesca says:"A cyanotype is created by combining po…

Lauryn Anderson (2021 Cohort, PhD in English) has been awarded a prestigious Jane Eliza Procter Fellowship to study at Princeton University for the academic year 2024-25. Procter fellowships, awarded by the trustees of Oxford and Cambridge, are awarded on both the basis of a very high standard of academic achievement, as well as in recognition of …

The yearly Cambridge Festival showcases research in a wide range of subjects, in a varied programme of talks, exhibitions, films, and more.A number of Harding Scholars will be involved in this year's Festival.Francesca Gardner, 2022 cohort, English, St Catharine'sFrancesca will be involved in the launch of this year's Festival at West Hub, to prese…

Amy Wilkinson, currently in the second year of a PhD in Biological Science at the Babraham Institute, was recently involved in the Human Developmental Biology Initiative's public dialogue on human embryo research. For her work on this initiative, Amy was awarded the Babraham Institute's annual Public Engagement Prize, an award that recognises contr…

The Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship Programme was delighted to hold the latest Internal Speaker Event – an exclusive platform within the HDPSP where scholars share their research findings, insights, and expertise with fellow scholars.Five brilliant speakers presented the results of their investigations this Wednesday, 8th of November…

Depth of research and interdisciplinarity were key themes at a celebration of the programme held at St Catharine’s College.An annual Welcome Event was held to introduce the intake of 2023 as part of a presentation and panel discussion.Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice, Master of St Catharine’s Sir John Benger, and James Holmes, Executive D…

Oliver Puckey, currently in the third year of a PhD in History, recently participated in the international "Democracy in Modern European History" workshop at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich alongside doctoral students from Cambridge, Bochum, Bayreuth, and Munich.The workshop was a collaboration between the DAAD Cambridge Hub for German St…

Animesh Jain, from the 2029 cohort of Harding Scholars, has now completed his PhD project.His thesis is entitled "Indirect Noise in Non-Isentropic Flows" and he will graduate with a PhD in Engineering.Since submitting his thesis, Animesh has begun working as a Desk Quantitative Analyst at the Royal Bank of Canada, in London.Read Animesh's full prof…

Andrew Fischer, a PhD student in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar, was sponsored by Kumamoto University in southern Japan from late July until early September. He was based at the Eisei Bunko Research Centre, where he examined sixteenth-century documents related to the Hosokawa family, t…

Broderick House (2020, Zoology) was recently named as one of East Anglia's #21toWatch by the communications agency Cofinitive.A full interview with Broderick, which discusses his research into the ways in which shellfish farming can support food sustainability, is available here.The interview is also currently displayed on the University's homepage…

On 2nd June 2023, the one day hybrid conference "activist/aesthetics" brought together scholars, artists practitioners and activists. The day focused on the "aesthetic" elements of activism.The conference was co-organised by Lauryn Anderson, Avani Tandon-Vieira and Anna Corrigan. Lauryn, a Harding Scholar, is in the second year of a PhD in English.…

Neil Chatterjee graduated from the University with a PhD in Pharmacology last year, becoming the first ever alumnus of the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship Programme.Neil's PhD, titled "Nucleic Acid Scaffold-dependent Proximity-mediated Enzyme Response (NASPER) - A Proof of Concept Study", focused on the development of a novel non-edi…

Timothy Welsh, from the 2019 cohort of Harding Scholars, has now completed his PhD project and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a PhD in Chemistry.In his time as a PhD scholar, Timothy's work has resulted in over a dozen publications in leading journals such as Nature Communications and PNAS, and he has contributed science to the for…