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Lydia Edwards

I'd like to thank Trevelyan College Alumni for my scholarship for the Second Year Academic Achievement Award in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health. I have put the money towards books that I needed for my dissertation, which is on the relationship between Bourdieu's notion of Cultural Capital and Welsh Nationalism. As I don't study in Wales many of these books are not available in the main Durham library or our library here in Trevs (many are written in Welsh, which doesn't make a strong case for them to be ordered in). This has been a huge help towards being able to fully commit to my studies and hopefully will result in future success.

Lorna Reeve

I have already used the Sir James Knott prize money to buy four Psychology textbooks, also making use of the discounts I receive as a British Psychological Society Student member. Two of the textbooks are directly relevant to my course content this year (Social Psychology and Developmental Psychology) whilst the other two are related to my passions and future career aspirations in Community Psychology- helping people!- and Neuropsychology- brains! This award has been especially useful to me as I do not normally have the budget to buy my own textbooks, despite being unable to easily read online textbooks due to disability. I have spent the Summer reading these in preparation for another year of hard work, and hopefully even better achievements!

Ellen Paterson

I am absolutely thrilled to have been chosen as a recipient of the Trevelyan Alumni award for the faculty of Arts and Humanities. It is a fantastic feeling to see that my academic achievements have been recognised, and I am incredibly excited to be able to celebrate this at the college award dinner in October 2017. Throughout the last academic year, I felt I was really able to grow as a historian, and particularly enjoyed studying modules in periods of history I had never had the opportunity to learn about, including medieval Scandinavian history. Much of my work throughout the year culminated in the completion of a six-thousand-word project on Viking history. This focused on the changing perceptions of the Vikings in historiography, and this was one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, aspects of my second year! I am intending to spend the  prize money from this award to help aid my studies for the coming academic year, which will be the final year of my degree. I plan to buy books for my dissertation research, which will be based on the Tudor period. Not only will these be of immense value to my research throughout the academic year, but they will also be life-long additions to my book shelf, which I hope will remind me of this award for many years to come. I am so grateful for this award and would like to thank the Trevelyan Alumni for their generosity!

Daniel Elcoat

I’d like to offer my thanks to the trustees of the James Knott Scholarship award and those responsible for my nomination; your kind gift will go a long way to helping my academic research. The North East of England is an area brimming with opportunity, and I feel like the work of the James Knott trust truly helps facilitate such chances. Since the age of four I have always wanted to become an Archaeologist, and in the following decade and a half my interest has never diminished. As such I intend to invest the James Knott Scholarship in new archaeological texts for my research. I’d like to learn more about the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete. Having visited the Minoan palace of Knossos when I was younger, I was immediately captivated by the fascinating and advanced civilisation that built it, one that remained undiscovered until the last century or so. Since its study is still relatively new and many of their scripts remain undeciphered, the prospect of a culture (specifically it’s ritual activity) that we can do little but hypothesise about, excites me. As such I will use the James Knott Scholarship to learn more about archaeology and the archaeological evidence used to build current models of Minoan religion and culture, perhaps forming my own unique views from new evidence. Who knows? I might publish a book myself one day based on my research.

Oliver Webb

As a computer science student with a passion for tinkering I have, for the past few years, been working on an ever growing homelab setup. Homelabs are a way to experiment with enterprise computer equipment and software, in the home. This provides a fantastic opportunity to teach oneself about both the inner workings and the general operating principles of IT infrastructure as it is used in business. Earlier this year I invested in a new Dell server to act as the main platform for my homelab. I quickly realised that the multitude of projects I had envisaged running on the platform would saturate the RAM capacity of the machine. The Trevelyan Trust award has helped me upgrade the RAM in the server to allow me to continue work on all of the projects I originally planned. I am currently implementing a single sign on infrastructure which will allow for proper implementation of both a virtual private network endpoint and a private cloud.

Hannah Atherton

I was very grateful and honoured to receive a scholarship in the name of Trevs’ founding principal, Joan Bernard. I am a third-year modern languages student and am spending this year living and working abroad in order to become more fluent in both foreign language and culture. It has always been a dream of mine to visit South America and to experience different Hispanic cultures, in terms of language as well as traditions. This goal was strengthened last year when studying a module about Latin American icons. I was particularly interested in the ongoing influence of Simón Bolívar in Latin America and evaluating the extent to which his values remain diffused and important throughout the continent. I hope to write my Target Language Learning Project on a theme relating to Latin American icons and perhaps even my dissertation in final year. I therefore plan to use this generous scholarship to help fund some of the costs of travel to realise this ambition, and be able to learn more about it first hand in South America.

Helen Diamond

Optional overseas fieldtrips are available to all final year geography students each summer. This year I was able to use the Trevelyan Alumni award to contribute to the cost of one such trip to Iceland. We spent 10 days in Vatnajökull National Park which is the island’s (and Europe’s) largest Icecap. The first half of the trip was spent getting an overview of the various outlet glaciers which flow down from the icecap, and the geomorphic footprint which they create in their forelands. A group research project made up the remainder of the trip. My group were working of the foreland of Skalafellsjökull with our project focusing on how subglacial sediment interacts with the bedrock underlying the glacier; a topic which has not received much attention in recent years. The data we collected here will be used to produce a poster presentation in December as well as a final project report in February. Overall the fieldtrip was an enjoyable and rewarding experience, putting into practice many of the aspects of glaciology that have been covered in previous year’s. Seeing glacial landforms actively forming provides a level of understanding of the processes involved that is difficult to achieve through lectures alone. 


Academic Prize Winners 2019

The following students were awarded a Joan Bernard Scholarship of £200:

Will Fox     Hannah Anson

The following students were awarded awarded a Sir James Knott Scholarship of £100:

Emily Dodd     Grace Gibson
Joshua Dees     Jack Lawrence
Brianna Bailey-Minton

The following students were awarded awarded a Trevelyan Alumni Second Year Prize of £100:

Katherine Fraser     Elliott Mason
Robert Hamblin     Isaac Pillar
Andrei Toma     Jiayi Wang

The following student was awarded the Nigel and Susan Martin Academic Scholarship of £200:

Oliver Welch

The following students were awarded awarded a Trevelyan Trust First Year Prize of £100:

Anna Graham     Kai Dattani
Peter Carter     James Smithson
Yuxuan Liu     Jueru Lu

The following student was awarded The Yvonne Harvey Prize for first year examination performance in Archaeology for £200:

Daphne Claisse

The following student was awarded The Yvonne Harvey Prize for first year examination performance in History for £200:

Tom Murray



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