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A group of 40 Harding Scholars took a day trip to Sutton Hoo, the Anglo-Saxon royal burial site and National Trust property situated in Suffolk.This day trip was one in a series of both social, and training and development events funded by the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship Programme and organised by Harding Scholars. Harding Schola…

Maria Grace Burton (2022, Earth Sciences) has published her first lead author paper, in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal. The paper "Direct quantification of skeletal pneumaticity illuminates ecological drivers of a key avian trait" features work undertaken by Grace during her MPhil, which has gone on to form the basis of her PhD proj…

Ange La Furcia (2020, Latin American studies), has been awarded the Harold Blakemore Prize for her paper “Denunciation, Politics, and Beauty in San Andrés Islands: A Caribbean Telenovela of Sexuality and Corruption”.The prize is awarded for the best paper presented by a postgraduate at the Society for Latin American Studies, and is named for Harold…

After being interviewed last year at The Scientist’s Channel, Marina Papaiakovou (2021, Biological Sciences) has won this year's competition, and has been awarded the very prestigious Scientists’ Choice Award for Life Sciences Video Interview of the Year. The interview explores Marina’s PhD work, which focuses on improving diagnostics for worm infe…

Tricia Postle (2020, Music) has been awarded a Fellowship be the Camargo Foundation, as a member of her medieval band, Pneuma Ensemble.The musicians will be developing early 12th century narrative performance over a ten-week period in the spring of 2024, in residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Tricia’s records of the residency wil…

Marina Papiakovou (2021, Biological Sciences) has published the first data chapter of her thesis in the International Journal for Parasitology, with her idea featured on the journal’s cover.Marina’s fascinating article emphasises the importance of leveraging genomics technologies in order to understand genetic variation in worms (and phylogenetic a…

Brigid Ehrmantraut (2019, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) will be acting as a consultant for the fashion designer Gabriela Hearst.Brigid will be presenting an academic lecture on the topic for Hearst's design team, as the designer prepares work on a new collection inspired by druids.

George Fulham, (2021, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology) recently had the opportunity to visit the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) for a month for some experimental work in collaboration with Prof. Paul Liu and Xianyue Wu.George says 'My work is currently investigating carbon dioxide hydrogenation to m…

A special celebration of the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme has been held at St Catharine’s College.The 2022 cohort attended the first in-person Welcome Event since before the pandemic, and they were joined by Scholars from the three previous cohorts to highlight the continued momentum of the programme, and to mark the beginn…

Amelia Holcombe (2021, Computer Science) has published a paper in MDPI Remote Sensing on the use of mobile phones to quickly and accurately measure trees.The published paper has been very well received, and was featured in a Cambridge University press release, a Computer Laboratory press release for International Women’s Day, and a 4C press release…

Francesca Gardner (2022, English) is joining a small team of postgraduate students working on a puppet project under Dr Nicole Sheriko, to be exhibited at the Cambridge Festival 2023.Produced by Rebekah King, the project involves the historical reconstruction of the magical talking bronze head from Robert Greene's c.1588-92 play Friar Bacon and Fri…

Following the publication of his article on Human Brain Mapping, titled 3D mapping from human cranial endocasts: A powerful tool to study hominin brain evolution in June 2022, Edwin de Jager (2021 cohort, Lucy Cavendish College) has presented his research on many occasions this year.Shortly after the publication, Edwin worked in Toulouse as part of…

Samuel Stark, 2022, Computer Science and Technology, St Catharine's College, has won the UK RISE student competition 2022 for his MPhil project. The competition is in the area of hardware and embedded systems security.The announcement on the winners can be seen here.

Kate Tilson, 2019 cohort, Faculty of History, has been awarded the World Christianities Prize (2022) for an article she submitted to the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.See the article here: World Christianities Essay Prize (cambridge.org)Congratulations to Kate!

Tianhou Wang (2020, Engineering), was a participant at the XXVI Biennial Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery in Pisa, where he presented a novel experimental apparatus that he had created in collaboration with others.The device is used to test jet engine compressors at transonic speeds which was previously only possible at a handful…