British Grantees in the US

Fulbright Class of 2012

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Postgraduate Scholars

Mark Bailey, UK Postgraduate Award, Georgetown University

Mark Bailey was born in Manchester and graduated from Oxford University with a First Class degree in Modern History and Modern Languages. He has previously worked at both the European Parliament and European Commission, including at the EU's delegation to the United Nations in New York where he was an adviser on humanitarian affairs. Before taking up his Fulbright Award to pursue a Masters in Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Mark worked for the international NGO Save the Children - first in its UK parliamentary relations section and later in conflict and humanitarian policy. He is also passionate about US politics and was prize-winner of the Institute for the Study of the Americas' award for an analysis of the 2008 US election.

Sophie Bertaud, UK Postgraduate Award, New York University

Sophie Bertaud grew up in France, where she completed her International Baccalaureate and graduated first in her year before moving to the UK to pursue her medical studies at University College London. She received First Class Honours for her BSc and graduated as a doctor in 2009. She has worked in London as a junior doctor for two years, which has confirmed her ambition to continue her training in paediatrics with a specific interest in paediatric cardiology. Alongside her clinical work she is involved in several research projects looking at long term cognitive and quality of life outcomes in children with congenital heart disease. As well as a weekly role as a volunteer for Childline, Sophie enjoys running for charity and plans to complete the New York marathon in aid of UNICEF. Her other interests include yoga, modern art and travel. As the Fulbright-British Schools and Universities Foundation (BSUF) Scholar, Sophie will complete a Masters in Bioethics at New York University specialising in paediatric medical ethics.

Jasdeep Bhalla, UK Postgraduate Award, Yale University

Jasdeep Bhalla was born in west London and has studied Urban Planning and Design at UCL. He was selected to represent the Bartlett at a workshop in Wuhan, China, to assist the redesign of part of the city. After graduating in 2007 (First Class), he completed an MA in Urban Design at Cardiff University (Distinction). Jas has spent the last 3 years in practice, working on several design and regeneration projects. He has worked extensively on a master plan for a large estate in Solihull, leading community consultation and early design concepts. He has also been involved with urban extensions, produced design guidance and authored a published article discussing social housing renewal. Now a visiting design critic at the Bartlett, Jas volunteers for the charity Planning Aid. Outside of work he paints portraiture, plays tennis and is an avid Chelsea FC supporter. As the Fulbright-Treasury Holdings Scholar he will study Architecture at Yale.

Christopher Brown Christopher David Brown, UK Postgraduate Award, Emory University

Christopher David Brown’s journey into Latin American history began with a British Council Language Assistantship at the University of Concepcion, Chile, in 2006/7. After receiving a First Class degree in History and Hispanic Studies from the University of Nottingham, he completed, with Distinction, an MSc in Latin American Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford. His thesis on nationalism and national identity in Paraguayan school textbooks was published online by the Georg-Eckert Institute and formed the basis for a conference paper at the University of Montevideo in 2010. Christopher´s extra-curricular interests have included service in the East Midlands Universities Officers Training Corps, work on educational outreach programmes, football captaincy and jazz band leadership. He recently taught for the British Council in Shanghai, China, where he also worked as a journalist. As a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the George W. Woodruff Graduate Fellowship, Christopher will pursue a PhD in Latin American History at Emory University, Atlanta, focusing on the changing face of nationalism and national identity in Brazil.

Rosanne Flynn, UK Postgraduate Award, University of Southern California

Rosanne Flynn is an award-winning writer and director and will spend her Fulbright year studying Screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She graduated from King’s College, Cambridge, with a First Class degree in History and began her career as assistant to the director Paul Greengrass during the production of ‘The Bourne Supremacy.’ Rosanne went on to become a story editor and associate producer with a record of developing acclaimed fact-based and political dramas including ‘Blood and Oil,’ ‘The Promise’ and ‘United 93.’ Her first short film ‘Knock Off’ won Best Narrative Short at the Harlem Film Festival and her feature script ‘Crossbones’ secured her a place on the prestigious ‘She Writes’ programme promoting women writers. She currently has three feature films in development.

Pallavi Gulati, UK Postgraduate Award, University of Denver

Pallavi Gulati was born in New Delhi but moved to London at a young age. She read Politics and International Relations at the University of Manchester and graduated with a First in 2009. At university, she developed a keen interest in security studies, and completed a dissertation exploring the need for a distinct political morality in the face of national security challenges. During her studies, she served as President of the University Politics Society and worked as an intern on ‘The World Today’ programme at the BBC World Service. Most recently, she has worked as an Account Executive at Insight Public Affairs, helping to deliver targeted political strategies and government relations campaigns. As a Fulbright Scholar, she will study for a Masters in International Security at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has also been awarded a Fellowship by the Sié Chéou-Kang Centre for International Security and Diplomacy.

Olivia Horsfield, UK Postgraduate Award, Boston University

Olivia Horsfield joined Guardian News and Media three years ago and has been responsible for research projects that have informed much of the organisation’s recent core strategy including developing an iPhone app, re-launching The Observer newspaper and expanding operations in America. Olivia completed her undergraduate degree in Modern History at Oxford. Whilst at university she was secretary to the Pembroke College Ball Committee and spent a summer as a Camp America counsellor in Connecticut. She grew up in Essex and attended the Leventhorpe School, after which she spent a gap year in Central America carrying out conservation work and teaching in a Mayan school. She also competed in the Ruta Maya – a 170 mile canoe race across Belize. She believes passionately in the continued importance of quality newspapers in today’s fragmented media world. She hopes to continue her media career after completing an MBA as a Fulbright Scholar at Boston University.

Farrah Jarral, UK Postgraduate Award, Harvard University

Farrah Jarral comes from sunny Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and studied medicine at Balliol College, Oxford. While studying clinical medicine at Imperial College London, Farrah interned with the World Health Organisation in Cairo working on the stigma of psychiatric illness in the Arab world. After qualifying as a doctor in 2006, Farrah presented an educational documentary for Channel 4 TV filmed across the world and aimed at breaking down negative stereotypes about Muslims. Following foundation medical training at St Mary’s and Charing Cross, Farrah chose to pursue Primary Care training in Tower Hamlets, working at the Royal London Hospital in various specialties and training as a forensic medical examiner for victims of sexual assault at The Haven, Whitechapel. Farrah is interested in the integration of migrant Muslim groups in the UK, particularly through improving the autonomy of women over their reproductive health. In her spare time, Farrah enjoys singing for a dubstep band and in 2010, the UK Arts Council supported a live UK tour following a successful album release in 2008. As a Fulbright Scholar, Farrah will pursue an MA in Medical Anthropology at Harvard.

Katie Johnston, UK Postgraduate Award, Georgetown University

Katie Johnston grew up just outside Belfast, Northern Ireland. She read Law (with Law Studies in Europe) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she was a member of the team which won the UK rounds and were ranked ninth in the world in the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Public International Law Moot Court Competition 2009. Katie spent a year studying French Law at the Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas in Paris and, in 2009, she worked as an intern for the Committee on the Administration of Justice, a Belfast-based human rights NGO. During her Fulbright year, Katie will undertake a Master of Laws (LLM International Legal Studies) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where she will specialise in International and Comparative Law.

Nishant Kumar, UK Postgraduate Award, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Institute of Lennox Hill

Nishant Kumar is an Eye Surgeon (Ophthalmologist) currently working at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. He completed his Ophthalmology training in some of the most prestigious eye units in the UK and is an active clinical researcher with numerous publications in respected scientific journals and presentations at national and international meetings. He is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and has been involved in teaching Medical students at Cardiff, Liverpool and UCL as well as in developing countries, helping with eye camps in India amongst other work there. He was elected as Deputy Chairman of the Ophthalmic Trainees Group at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London and is on the Department of Health Advisory Board for e-learning. His other interests include playing the saxophone, racing nitro-powered remote control cars and he was part of his school and Medical College cricket teams. He is a supporter of Liverpool football club and a regular at their games. As a Fulbright Scholar, he will be working at Columbia University and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York with Prof Yannuzzi; a pioneer in understanding diseases of the retina. His research will concentrate on trying to correlate retinal structure with function.

Nishant Lalwani, Fulbright-British Friends of Harvard Business School MBA Award, Harvard University

Nishant Lalwani enjoyed four years at Christ’s College, Cambridge acquiring Bachelors and Masters degrees in Aeronautical Engineering. During his time there, he also directed several plays, played for the football and cricket teams and was President of the Photography Society. In 2003, he set up the UK’s first student Speed Dating company, but later sold it and became a strategy consultant, working with Marakon Associates for three years in London, Amsterdam, Switzerland and New York. He found his calling in the world of international development, via a stint with the United Nations Development Program in Zambia. In 2007 he joined The Monitor Group Mumbai, where he helped found Monitor Inclusive Markets, a specialist consultancy and think tank that supports social enterprises in emerging markets. His work on market-based solutions for poverty has been published in India, Europe and the United States, including the Harvard Business Review in 2011. Nishant also sits on the Board of Directors of Shivia, an Indian microfinance institution, and has acted as an advisor on education policy to the Indian government. Nishant spends a lot of his time with headphones on, either DJing or travelling. As a Fulbright Scholar, he will be completing an MBA at Harvard Business School.

Sophie Lewis, UK Postgraduate Award, The New School, New York

Sophie Lewis graduated with a First from Oxford (Wadham College) in English Language & Literature in 2010, having focussed – daringly – on eco-criticism and postcolonial drama in her final dissertations. In 2011, she will complete an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, where her research will be directed at environmentalist social movements and radical ecologies for the city. In 2010, before her final exams, she ran for City Councillor in Oxford with the Green Party, and very nearly won, beating the Labour and Conservative candidates by a wide margin. She was awarded college scholarships and the Oxford University Drama Society Best New Writing award for one of her five Oxford productions, a monologue about motherhood. Sophie was born in Vienna and grew up in France and Switzerland, trilingual in a lefty family of reporters. Sophie’s mother, now a psychotherapist, is from Hannover. Having attended German, French and English schools, she excelled on her IB above all in languages, literature and theatre, in which she scored high distinctions. A scribbler from age four, she has been writing plays, articles and stories every since. Her most recent project, ‘Open Sauce’, is a web-based, collaborative feminist interrogation of authorship and celebration of textual eroticism with the Oxford-based Radical X collective. Since 2007 she has held many campaign-related positions. As a Fulbright Scholar she will pursue the MA Politics at New School for Social Research in New York City.

Tomos Lewis, UK Alistair Cooke Award in Journalism, Columbia University

Tomos Lewis was born and raised in south Wales and is a first-language Welsh-speaker. He has spent the past two years as a Broadcast Assistant at the BBC’s Welsh-language newsroom in Cardiff. Prior to his he taught English to refugee communities in northern India and southern Lebanon, before graduating from the University of St Andrews in 2007, in Art History and English. At university, Tom won a Tessa Trethowan Memorial Bursary to research Russian art-restoration methods in St Petersburg, and was elected Director of St Andrews Nightline, a nightly student-support telephone service. He also dabbled as a bellringer at the university chapel. He dipped his toes into journalism at the Big Issue in Cardiff, as an arts writer, before moving back to Lebanon to work as an editor at a leading educational publishing house. In Lebanon, Tom contributed to several news publications, including The Daily Star newspaper and nowlebanon.com, and volunteered at a contemporary art gallery in Beirut. He later interned at the BBC’s network radio newsroom and at the New Statesman magazine in London. Tom will spend his year as a Fulbright Alistair Cooke Scholar at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, specialising in broadcast journalism.

Anna Maybank, UK MBA Award, University of California, Berkeley

Anna Maybank was co-founder and Director of not-for-profit company, Social Innovation Camp Ltd from 2008-2011. Social Innovation Camp is a launch pad and accelerator for technology-based social ventures. By matching up software developers, designers and people who understand a social problem, the company helps build web and mobile-based solutions to social challenges. Previously, Anna was a researcher for Charles Leadbeater’s book, We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity, and worked for the think-tank Demos. Anna has a BA in Modern History and Politics from the University of Oxford. She will be studying for an MBA at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yacine Merouchi, UK Postgraduate Award, Stanford University

Yacine Merouchi is a student at Magdalen College, Oxford, working towards a Masters in Mathematics and Computer Science. Yacine’s previous experience includes an internship with the ATLAS Distributed Data Management group at CERN, and writing his undergraduate dissertation on the numerical solution of stochastic differential equations. In 2008, Yacine was awarded the Kathleen Lavidge Bursary, which allowed him to follow a three-week Computer Science course at Stanford University. After graduating from Oxford, Yacine will be returning to Stanford as a Fulbright Scholar to pursue an MS in Computer Science, with a focus on machine learning.

Laura Mingers, UK Postgraduate Award, Rutgers University

Laura Mingers was born in Leamington Spa but moved a number of times whilst growing up, including two brief spells living in Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended Queens’ College, Cambridge for a BA in History and graduated in 2010 with a double First. She was awarded a college scholarship and played on the netball team. She also served as the President of Queens’ College History Society and was elected as the Communications Officer and then the Secretary for Queens’ College JCR. Her other interests include going to the theatre and travelling. After graduating last year she started working as a caseworker for a London MP. In this role she worked closely with a number of organisations and individuals who were struggling financially and managed all financial casework for a large and varied area of London. As a Fulbright Scholar she will be studying Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University where she hopes to further explore the relationship between women, work and the family.

Sophie Moullin, UK Postgraduate Award, Columbia University

Sophie Moullin was educated at High Storrs Comprehensive, Sheffield, and then King’s College, Cambridge. After taking a double First and winning prizes in Social and Political Sciences in 2005, she worked on the Commission for Child Poverty and Life Chances and at the Department for Education, before joining the Institute for Public Policy Research, where she was a Research Fellow. After publishing the papers ‘Just Care’ and ‘Care in a new welfare society’ and articles in the Guardian and other national media, Sophie was appointed as the youngest ever Senior Policy Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, where she covered public services, welfare, poverty and family policy. Sophie is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Department for Politics and International Relations, focusing on family policy and social justice. Consulting on public services strategy, she has recently worked on improving health and social care in deprived parts of London and reducing crime in Greater Manchester. Beyond her day jobs, Sophie has been a founding member of Oxfam’s Youth Board, an elected governor of her local NHS Foundation Trust, an activist in Ohio for the Obama for American 2008 campaign, and a governor of a local infant school and nursery. Sophie loves dancing, hiking, running, literature and cooking, and is learning to sail. As a Fulbright Scholar, Sophie will study at Columbia University for a Masters in Social Work (Policy) with a minor in Public Administration. Through this, she hopes to develop her thinking on family care and disadvantage, learning more about the microeconomics of social policy, realities of professional practice, innovations in public services in New York City, and no doubt the beauty of statistical modelling.

Alice Newcombe, Fulbright-British Friends of Harvard Business School MBA Award, Harvard University

Alice Newcombe graduated with a First Class degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University and was a Scholar of St. John’s College. During her time at Cambridge, she was a player in her college sports teams and led voluntary projects, including an initiative aimed at ethnic reintegration in Bosnia and work at a centre for human rights in India. After graduation, Alice worked first in investment banking and since 2008 has worked as an Associate at leading private equity firm TPG. Before leaving for the US, she will help develop a venture capital facility aimed at slum redevelopment in Kenya. Alice has also worked as an intern for a new United Nations agency in the Middle East and at the ILO in Geneva. Her other interests include marathon running, piano playing and volunteering for children’s charities. As a Fulbright-British Friends of Harvard Business School Scholar, she will study for the MBA at Harvard.

Daniel Parcell, UK Postgraduate Award, Wesleyan University

Daniel Parcell has undertaken studies in composition at Trinity College of Music (BMus), and in performance practices and research at the Central School of Speech and Drama (MA supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council). As a sonic researcher, Daniel has led workshops on a range of topics, including aural architecture and collaboration in composition. As a composer, his work has been performed in projects such as the National Theatre Discovery Programme, and features in publications by ABRSM and The Society for Curious Thought. He has worked in a research capacity for the National Union of Students Scotland, and his other interests include technology, swimming and philosophy. As a Fulbright Scholar at Wesleyan University, Daniel intends to further develop his approach to composition, with a particular focus on exploring collaborative processes in non-Western musics.

David Randall, UK Postgraduate Award, University of Washington

David Randall grew up in the small Warwickshire town of Southam and received a First in Computing from the University of Hertfordshire. After graduating, David worked as an IT analyst before returning to study at the London School of Economics and Political Science, obtaining an MSc with Distinction in 2010. Whilst at the LSE David was awarded the Alan and Christina MacDonald Graduate Scholarship and worked on the editorial board of the students’ union journal, The Clare Market Review. He also wrote an award-winning short fiction piece that was published in Clare. David has a passion for literature and enjoys writing. He also likes to travel and experience new cultures and has previously studied abroad at Oklahoma State University. As a Fulbright Scholar, David will study towards a PhD in Information Science at the University of Washginton, investigating the nature and performance of virtual teams and online communities.

Ben Rattenbury, UK Postgraduate Award, Columbia University

Ben Rattenbury grew up in sleepy, rural Wiltshire, southwest UK. After a Sociology degree at Sheffield University he ran a volunteering project in Tanzania, before travelling overland from Zanzibar to Cape Town, then moving to London. The capital delivered the exciting opportunities that attracted Ben, and within six months he found his ideal job, working with international civil society. Five years later, having initiated and run civil society development projects and contributed to policy creation across the EU, Western Balkans and former Soviet Union, (whilst running the volunteering organisation that took him to Tanzania, Tenteleni), Ben decided to take the next step and move into international policy-making proper, with a Masters in Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, where he will focus on macroeconomics and the environment. In his spare time Ben is an eager traveller, mediocre footballer and embarrassingly poor bedroom DJ.

Hazel Sheffield, UK Alistair Cooke Award in Journalism, Columbia University

Hazel Sheffield is a First Class History graduate from Durham University. Since graduating she has interned at the Financial Times and The Observer and written about the arts for The Guardian, The Telegraph, Intelligent Life and numerous other publications. At 18 she was selected for the Rotary Youth Exchange programme and spent 12 months studying at a French-speaking school in Quebec City, Canada. Hazel is a founding member of WhatPeterborough, a local magazine and online community that aimed to draw disparate nationalities together in a city fragmented by immigration. She spent a summer in Jerusalem writing about these issues. Since moving to North London she has investigated violent crime and street prostitution for a local paper while sub-editing an award-winning independent music newspaper. Hazel's ambition is to be able to write social and cultural features that observe life with focus, precision and a world-view – one which can only be developed through study in the US. As a Fulbright Scholar she will study at the Columbia School of Journalism.

Zenna Tavares, UK International Science and Technology Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Zenna Tavares is a native of London and an engineer by training, having studied Electronic Engineering and Japanese at the University of Nottingham and Osaka University. In Japan, he became increasingly intrigued by the brain, and began to think about engineering approaches to furthering our understanding of it. After graduating with a First Class degree and the Farnell Award for the most outstanding student project, he transitioned toward this new interest by achieving an MSc in Biomedical Engineering and Neurotechnology at Imperial College London. He then remained at Imperial College, researching network science and its relevance in elucidating brain disorders. Prior to his undergraduate degree, Zenna travelled throughout Asia and South America for six months. In contrast to his current research, he spent a summer engrossed in art and design in Korea University of Seoul, South Korea. Whether it be cooking or coding, he takes most joy in tasks which lie at the intersection of art, science, design and engineering. As a Fulbright Science and Technology Scholar, Zenna will pursue a PhD in Computation in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Katharine Vincent, UK Postgraduate Award, Columbia University

Katharine Vincent was born in Cheltenham, grew up in Leicestershire and read English at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She then spent two years teaching in Japan before completing a PGCE at London University’s Institute of Education. Katharine completed a Master of Teaching (with Distinction) in 2006 and is now an Associate Tutor on the course. She has spent several months in the Middle East teaching Palestinian refugees with a British charity, for whom she also recruits and trains volunteers. Katharine currently lives in Shoreditch and works as an Assistant Headteacher at an east London secondary school. She is studying for a Doctorate in Education and, as a Fulbright Scholar with Special Student Researcher status at Teachers College, Columbia University, she plans to carry out fieldwork for her doctoral thesis in New York City schools.

Scholars and Fellows

Nicola Beer, Diabetes UK Research Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University

Nicola Beer studied for her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Bristol. During this time she spent a year working for the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca within their Cardiovascular and Gastrointestinal drug discovery department, which she enjoyed immensely and gave her a taste for medical research. Upon completion of her degree she travelled around Europe before commencing her DPhil within the laboratories of Dr Anna Gloyn and Prof Patrik Rorsman at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford. Work carried out during her postgraduate studies led to the publication of two first author scientific papers, and a secondment to the laboratory of Prof Francis Collins at the National Institutes of Health, Maryland. Nicola enjoys keeping fit, watching live music, and socialising with friends. As a Fulbright-Diabetes UK Research Fellow, Nicola will be working on translating discoveries from large-scale genetic analyses into an understanding of the role of ER stress in type 2 diabetes in the laboratory of Prof David Altshuler at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Amy Blakeway, Robertson Visiting Professor in British History, Westminster College

Amy Blakeway was educated at Clare College, University of Cambridge, and obtained her PhD in 2010. Since that time, she has acted as a researcher for a number of institutions, including the History of Parliament Trust, and held a WM Keck Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Her research examines sixteenth century Scottish politics, in particular the nobility, print culture and relations with England. As the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History to Westminster College, Dr Blakeway is looking forward to teaching early modern British history to American undergraduates, and preparing her first monograph, based on her doctoral research.

Mark Boother, Hubert Humphrey Public Affairs Fellowship, Hubert Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota

Mark Boother has worked in the British Criminal Justice System in a wide variety of roles for 30 years. He has BA in Social Science (Deviancy) and is a qualified social worker. After working as a probation officer in London he was involved in research into substance misuse before becoming the manager of an approved probation hostel. He held a number of management positions and later became a strategic manager of services for children who had offended. He is currently employed as one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Probation, and has specialised in inspections on prolific offenders and electronic monitoring. He has acted as an advisor to the Governments of Bulgaria and Chile. Mark is a married father of two grown-up sons, and is happiest when with his family. He intends to study services for offenders and their governance arrangements in Minnesota as the Fulbright-Hubert Humphrey Fellow.

Andrew Brown Andrew B Brown, Scottish Police Research Fellowship, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York

Andrew Brown was born in Dundee and has served in Northern Constabulary for over 25 years. He currently heads up the Leadership Unit at the Scottish Police College, responsible for the provision of quality leadership training to the Scottish Police Service. Andrew’s other interests include swimming and deer stalking on the Isle of Skye. With significant experience of negotiating, ranging from suicide intervention, siege incidents, hostage incidents mainly involving hostage children and waterborne incidents, throughout the Highlands and Islands, he has lectured both nationally and internationally. As an Associate Lecturer, he is a member of the Police (Special Operations) Research Group within Aberdeen Centre for Trauma Research at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and has facilitated workshops recently at the International Conference on Disaster Psychology, Bergen, Norway. In 2009, he was awarded a Practitioner Fellowship from Scottish Institute for Policing Research; he is currently conducting research into the effectiveness of police negotiators’ deployment to incidents of deliberate self harm. As a Fulbright Police Research Fellow, he will work with the NYPD and FBI Hostage/Crisis Teams in addition to lecturing at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, University of New York.

Jordan Fenlon, Fulbright Scholar in Residence, Gaulladet University

Jordan Fenlon received his PhD from University College London in 2010 and is the first deaf native signer to be awarded a PhD in the field of Sign Language Linguistics in the UK. His thesis examined the production of visual markers to prosodic boundaries in British Sign Language (BSL) and the extent to which these markers can be used to identify boundaries by signers and non-signers. Following his PhD, he worked as a researcher on the BSL Corpus Project, the first of its kind in the UK, travelling around the country filming deaf people signing and investigating sociolinguistic variation in BSL. Jordan will be a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence within the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University in Washington DC, the only university in the world where its courses are catered for deaf and hard of hearing students.

Nicholas Gillian, UK Scholar Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nicholas Gillian graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 2011 with a PhD in Sonic Arts, having previously completed a BSc in Music Technology and an MA in Sonic Arts, also at Queen’s, in 2006 and 2007 respectively. His area of research focuses on the design and development of new machine learning algorithms that can be used by musicians to interact with computers via gestural control. As a Fulbright Scholar, Nicholas will be continuing this research at MIT’s Media Lab.

Simon Hayhoe, UK Scholar Award, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Simon Hayhoe is Head of ICT at Leicester Grammar School and a Visiting Academic at the London School of Economics, where he is researching and writing a work on the epistemology and methodology of studying impairment and disability. He received his BA in Technical Communication from Coventry University, his MEd from Leicester University and his PhD in Education from Birmingham University. He trained to teach at Bath University. His area of expertise is the understanding of visual culture by blind people, and he has published and lectured internationally on the psychology of blind visual art students, the history of blindness and visual computer programming and web design by blind people. During his Fulbright research he will add to his experience by developing an understanding of blind visitors’ appreciation of the painting collections at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the representation of paintings on their website.

E Wyn James, UK Scholar Award, Harvard University

E Wyn James comes from the industrial valleys of south-east Wales. After a period as Director of a Christian publishing house, in 1994 he was appointed Lecturer in Modern Welsh Literature in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University, where he is now a Reader. His academic research focuses primarily on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and especially on areas relating to religion, identity, gender studies and textual criticism. He is an authority on the hymn, the broadside ballad and the literature of evangelicalism, and has published widely in those fields. Wyn is co-Director of the Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies. In that context, his research has focused primarily on the campaigns to abolish slavery in the Americas and on the life and work of the Welsh Patagonian author, Eluned Morgan (1870–1938). The Fulbright award will enable him to be a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, researching into the attitudes of the Welsh American diaspora to the abolition movement, and studying in particular the translations into Welsh of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852).

Helen Jarvie, UK Scholar Award, University of Arkansas

Helen Jarvie was born in south Warwickshire and was educated at the King’s High School for Girls, Warwick. After graduating from St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, Helen gained her PhD in Fluvial Sedimentology at Reading University. She then joined the UK Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, where she is now a Principal Scientist in Environmental Chemistry. Helen undertakes fundamental and applied research on the sources, transport and biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus and nitrogen in rivers and impacts on water quality and ecology. Helen will be undertaking her Fulbright research at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her project will examine the macronutrient buffering capacity of rivers and the implications for catchment management and ecosystem sustainability. She will be working in collaboration with Professor Andrew Sharpley in the Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, as a Visiting Distinguished Professor in Hydrochemistry.

Jayme Johnson, UK Police Research Fellowship, George Mason University

Jayme Johnson is a Detective Sergeant with the Metropolitan Police in London. During his seven years as a police officer, he has worked in neighbourhood policing, investigation of sexual offences and domestic violence, and in the Territorial Support Group specialising in policing public disorder. He is on the national High Potential Development Scheme. He completed a first degree in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford and is currently embarking on an MSc in Police Leadership and Management at Warwick University. Jayme’s Fulbright Police Research Fellowship will analyse the opportunities and risks of the impending introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales. He will be based at George Mason University, Virginia. He completes this on behalf of his police force and the Association of Chief Police Officers. Jayme is a Freeman of the City of London, a Governor of the Skinners’ Academy, Hackney and enjoys running, skiing and rugby.

Clara O'Donnell Clara O’Donnell, Fulbright Schuman Scholar, Brookings Institution, Washington DC

Clara O'Donnell is British and Spanish, and grew up in Belgium. She read European studies at King’s College London, with a year at Sciences Po in Paris, then earned an MPhil in international relations at Cambridge. She had a series of placements within EU institutions, and subsequently worked as a researcher at Chatham House, and at NATO. Since 2007 she has been a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, where she has published extensively on European foreign policy and defence, including in peer-reviewed journals such as International Affairs. She frequently speaks at international conferences and provides commentary to leading media in Europe and the US. She is on the steering group for the Under 35s Forum at Chatham House and a member of the Advisory Council of the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. She enjoys riding, rock-climbing and learning languages. As a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar, she will study US attitudes towards EU defence cooperation at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.

Fionn O'Hara, UK Scholar Award, The Scripps Research Institute

Fionn O'Hara was born and raised in Aberystwyth. She studied Natural Sciences (Chemistry) at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated in 2007 with the highest overall mark and the best performance in organic chemistry. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, and has been awarded prizes including a Syngenta Postgraduate Scholarship in Organic Chemistry, an SCI Scholarship from the Society of Chemical Industry and travel grants to present her research at international conferences. Outside the lab, her interests include science communication to young people, canoeing and kayaking, and volunteering at the British and Irish 'Hole in the Wall' camps for children with serious illnesses. She enjoys travelling, whether backpacking around Japan or camping in New Zealand, and after graduating spent a summer teaching English at a summer camp in Hong Kong. As a Fulbright Scholar, she will undertake postdoctoral research in organic chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute.

Marie Pointer, UK Scholar Award, Yale University

Marie Pointer completed an undergraduate degree in biology at Imperial College, London. It was here that she became interested in evolutionary biology and this led to a move to University College London to complete a PhD on the visual adaptation of deep-sea fish. Marie then took up a postdoctoral position at the University of Cambridge to study the genetic basis of melanic (black and brown) and carotenoid (red and yellow) coloration in wild birds. During her time in Cambridge, Marie was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at Murray Edwards College (formerly known as New Hall) followed by a College Lectureship. Recently, Marie has moved to the University of Oxford to work on the evolution of sexual dimorphism and to investigate the impact of sexual selection on the genome. As a Fulbright Scholar, Marie will be visiting the Department of Biological Anthropology, Yale University, to conduct research on how pigmentation patterning is controlled in lemurs.

Steven Reid Steven J Reid, Scottish Studies Scholar Award, Yale University

Steven Reid was born in Aberdeen and is three times a graduate of the University of St Andrews, most recently for his doctorate in History, which was awarded in 2008. Steven has been a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow since completing his PhD, where he specialises in the intellectual and religious culture of Scotland during the renaissance and reformation (c. 1450-1650). Steven is the author of Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland 1560-1625 and (co-edited with Emma Wilson) Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World (both Ashgate, 2011). Steven is also a keen amateur runner and has competed for both Fife Athletic Club and Ayr Seaforth AC, and won the 2009 Glen Clova Half Marathon and the 2010 Moray Marathon. As a Fulbright Scholar, Steven will teach a course on the history of the Scottish Reformation and its impact on Scotland’s cultural life in Yale’s Divinity School, and will also lead a reading group on the neo-Latin poetry of the Scottish church and educational reformer Andrew Melville (1545-1622).

Zoe Turner Zoë Turner, Fulbright-AstraZeneca Research Scholarship, Princeton University

Zoë Turner graduated from Wadham College, Oxford University, in 2007 with an MChem (First Class Honours) degree. She then travelled north to Edinburgh University where she recently completed a PhD sponsored by SASOL technology UK. As the Fulbright-AstraZeneca Research Scholar, Zoë will be researching the activation and functionalisation of dinitrogen at Princeton University.

Tony Wall, Northern Ireland Public Sector Fellowship, George Washington University

Tony Wall was born in Kingston-Upon-Thames and has worked in a variety of jobs since leaving school in 1973. These include working for the Ministry of Defence as a Russian Interpreter and for Nottingham City Council as both a Housing and Development Officer. On the completion of a Business Studies degree in 1998 he began work as a Research Assistant for the University of Ulster, becoming a Lecturer in 2000 and a Senior Lecturer in 2007. He has been researching PPPs for over ten years and has a number of publications, both journal articles and books, in this and other areas. He has spoken at a number of international conferences on topics such as PPPs, performance measurement, social networking sites and gender issues. His main outside interest is athletics and as well as still competing he coaches younger athletes and is involved in the administration of athletics in Northern Ireland. As a Fulbright Northern Ireland Public Sector Fellow, he will be studying the planning and operation of PPPs in the US to see what lessons can be learnt for their continued use in Northern Ireland, affiliated with the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University

Valerie Wallace, Scottish Studies Scholar Award, Harvard University

Valerie Wallace grew up near Glasgow. In 2003, aged 20, she graduated from the University of Glasgow with First Class Honours and won the Provand’s Lordship Award for best graduate in Scottish History. She was awarded AHRC scholarships to complete both her Masters and her Doctorate, which focused on the relationship between Scottish Presbyterianism and radical politics in Scotland and Canada in the early nineteenth century. Since finishing her PhD, Valerie has taught at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a Research Associate in the Faculty of Laws, University College London, where she has been involved in outreach initiatives aimed at engaging school children and the public in higher education. As the inaugural Fulbright Scottish Studies Scholar, and sponsored by the Scottish Government, Valerie will spend her Fulbright year at Harvard University promoting Scottish Studies in the United States whilst working on her research project: a global history of Scottish Presbyterian radicalism from 1815-1914.