RECIPIENTS OF THE 2022 THATCHER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS

• Duncan Marsden (2019, Medicine) received an award of £1000 to help him travel to Costa Rica and volunteer at the Cabo Blanco nature reserve with their waste management and conservation team. Duncan helped to collect and analyse plastic waste from the beaches and monitor biodiversity.

• Nikita Ostrovsky (2019, MPhys Physics) was awarded £475 towards the costs of his internship with the African Education and Innovation Group in Benin. Nikita helped to plan and teach a summer course for local children aged 8-18, creating a web design bootcamp for the International Trade Centre, and giving an English crash course to incoming first year students at Epitech Benin.

• Misbah Reshi (2021, MSt Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) received £2000 to run three days of workshops at the University of Kashmir with the charity Project EduAccess to help students from marginalised communities apply to universities around the world (see above).

• Alfie Brazier (2020, MCompSci Computer Science) was granted £1000 to support his research internship at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. Working with their sea-ice team, Alfie created a highly successful new machine learning model to reconstruct records from partial ice-cap core data. His research is due to be published (see pg. 12).

• Bethany Smith (2019 MBiol Biology) received an award of £2000 for a documentary film project based in the Azores, exploring the islands’ transition from being sustained by the whaling industry to whale watching tourism and conservation.

• Susannah Ames (2019, BA PPE) used her Award of £2000 to travel to the Amazon with Working Abroad to volunteer in their research and conservation projects.

• Sam Morley (2019, MEng Engineering Science) was awarded £2000 to support his access to theatre project. He organised workshops in schools with story-tellers and facilitators to develop ideas that can be scaled up and taken on tour around the UK to regions with poor access to the art form through a circus tent set-up, which will form the basis of an Arts Council England grant application.