Graduate Scholarships & Financial Support

I am a final-year graduate-entry medical student, and a former Wellcome Trust PhD Scholar in Structural and Molecular Biology at the ISMB in London, where I worked with Dr Anthony Roberts. My doctoral research, published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, used cryo-electron microscopy and single-molecule imaging to uncover the molecular mechanism of auto-inhibition regulating the kinesin-2 motor protein. A molecular motor integral to anterograde intraflagellar transport within cilia.

In Oxford, I shifted focus from laboratory research to evidence-based medicine. I worked under the supervision of Dr Georgia Richards in the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, researching the relationship between chronic pain and mortality using the Preventable Deaths Tracker. Recently, I also worked on projects in collaboration with the UCLH RESPOND team focussing on health services for people seeking asylum.

Alongside my research, I teach anatomy to pre-clinical students in DPAG and have served on the graduate-entry medical school education committee. I aspire to integrate evidence-based research with clinical practice to advance equitable healthcare for vulnerable populations and impact policy within the wider NHS.

I am a second-year MPhil student in US History supervised by Prof. Stephen Tuck and Dr. Emily Brady. Broadly, I am interested in histories of anti-racist resistance, racialisation, and mixed-race identity from across the Americas, including transnational, especially transatlantic, connections.  

My current research explores the lived experiences of interracial couples, mixed-race children, and multiracial families in the mid to late twentieth century United States. In particular, I look beyond Loving v. Virginia (1967), the US Supreme Court case which ruled that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional, to centre on the changing socio-political landscape that followed the formal end of de jure racial segregation in the late 1960s. Within this context, I explore how interracial couples and their families navigated different settings in spite of an enduring racial binary and persistent legacies of segregation. Equally, I engage questions around how mixed-race children of the ‘Loving Generation’ reckoned with and navigated the US racial binary, considering, for example, the extent to which children born to interracial couples in the generation after Loving formed or engaged with a distinct mixed- or multi- racial identity. Relatedly, I am investigating deliberate efforts to build and foster a distinct multiracial community largely through attempts to bring interracial couples, mixed-race children, and multiracial families together at local, national, and international levels.  

Before the MPhil, I completed a BA in History here at Pembroke. Outside of my studies, I am a trustee of and support the work of the Pembroke JCR Art Collection Fund, having led the organisation in my second year of undergrad. 

I am a third-year DPhil student in Medieval History, supervised by Dr. Amanda Power and Prof. John Watts. My research explores the religious lives of soldiers in later medieval England. It focuses on how personal religious beliefs and ritual behaviours were shaped by an active life on campaign, with a particular interest in individual practices around healing, protection, and salvation. I use the methodology of lived religion which focuses on the material record and belief as something enacted by ordinary people, rather than as a disembodied intellectual idea. By doing so, my research offers insight into the world of the late medieval soldier as they navigated the fears, thrills, and horrors of war. I am particularly interested in healing charms for wounds, the use of relics for divine favour, and the wearing of cross pendants for divine protection, and the ways in which these objects show the entanglement of the mundane and the transcendent in daily life. 

Before my DPhil I completed a Bachelor of Arts in History (Hons) at the University of Sydney where I was awarded the University Medal, and an MSt in Medieval History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Beyond my studies, I am currently a Junior Dean at Pembroke, and President of the Oxford University Touch Rugby Club.

I am a third year DPhil student on the Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), supervised by Prof. Gail Preston (Department of Biology) and Prof. Stephan Uphoff (Department of Biochemistry). My research investigates a plant-pathogenic bacterium that causes severe disease in economically important crops, with a focus on how it evades plant immunity.

Like humans, plants possess and immune system. One arm of this immunity is the release of antimicrobial compounds that react with pathogen biomolecules to inhibit or kill the pathogen. Over time, however, pathogens have evolved strategies to resist these stresses and continue to cause disease. In my PhD project, I have used bioinformatics approaches, molecular techniques (such as generating mutants and bioreporters), fluorescent microscopy and plant infection experiments to identify novel stress mechanisms in the pathogen. By defining how these mechanisms work, we may ultimately be able to inform novel plant defence strategies. 

I am incredibly grateful to receive the Horlock Studentship which will allow me to pursue many opportunities. This support will enable me to attend specialist plant-pathology workshops, present my work at international conferences, and take part in professional development opportunities such as AgTech summits and plant-science hackathons. A massive thank you to the generous donors of the Horlock Studentship! 

I am a final year medical student on the Graduate-Entry course, with an interest in pursuing surgery. I am very grateful to receive the Horlock Studentship, which opens a lot of opportunities to further explore my interest. This studentship will allow me to undertake a two-month medical elective abroad with a surgical team, which I am hoping to do in orthopaedic or vascular surgery. This elective gives me an amazing opportunity to experience a different healthcare system and spend an extended period with a surgical team. The Horlock Studentship will also allow me to expand my research career. I am working on a systematic review on global maternal suicide with the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, and this studentship means I will be able to travel to present my research at conferences.