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Student ambassadors
The following students completed their Nuffield Science bursary within the last 5 years and continue to act as 'Student ambassadors' for the scheme. As you will be able to see from each of these case studies, taking a Nuffield Science Bursary placement is just the start of many great things!
If you are a former Nuffield science bursary student and would like to be added to this page, please email your details to Jo Oladejo.
Name: Lydia Arnold
Project title: Laser Photonics Application Project
Host: Pion Laser Laboratory, Salford University, Summer 2005.
What Lydia is doing now: She is studying medicine at the University of Manchester.
Click here to find out more about Lydia, her bursary placement and the doors it has opened.
Name: Holly Batchelor
Project title: Cosmic Rain: Investigating Particles from Space
Host: School of Physics, the University of Edinburgh, Summer 2006
What Holly is doing now: She is studying Physics at the University of St Andrews
Click here to find out more about Holly, her bursary placement and the doors it has opened.
Name: David Bendell
Project title: A Study into the Possibility of Bacterial Cross Contamination in Food and Drink Distribution
Host: Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, Summer 2005.
What David is doing now: Studying for a geology degree at Exeter University.
Click here to find out more about David, his bursary placement and the doors it has opened.
Name: Mary McGeown
Project title: Processing of prawn shell waste
Host: Chemical Engineering Department, Queen's University Belfast, Summer 2003.
What Mary is doing now: She is in the fourth year of a dentistry degree at Trinity College, Dublin.
Click here to find out more about Mary, her bursary placement and the doors it has opened.
Name: Gurjit Singh Sidhu
Project title: Commissioning a DPD-3 Diode System for In-Vivo Dose Verification of Radiotherapy Treatment
Host: Radiotherapy Department, Ninewells Hospital, Summer 2004.
What Gurjit is doing now: Studying Aero Mechanical Engineering.
Click here to find out more about Gurjit, his bursary placement and the doors it has opened.
Last Updated Thu, 21 February 2008