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Fulbright Scholars 2007/08

Chris Benson
Harvard Business School - MBA

Chris Benson grew up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, attending local state schools, before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford. At Oxford, Chris was a college scholar and the Oxford University-Cornell University Brettschneider Scholar of 2002. Outside of academics, Chris was actively involved in sport and politics.

For the last two and half years he has been a consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants in London, working with a diverse range of clients in the corporate strategy and private equity markets. In his spare time, Chris is a School Governor, an active sportsman - playing cricket and hockey to a high level - and a long-distance runner.

As a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Business School, Chris will focus on his driving passion: the interdependence of business and government. He therefore hopes to cross-register at the Kennedy School of Government, learn more about US leadership in the social enterprise field, and gain a deep perspective into the worlds of both American business and government.

Peter Cardwell
Columbia University – MA Journalism

Peter wrote his first article for his local newspaper aged 12, and has since worked for various local, national and international newspapers, magazines and broadcast organisations in Belfast, Oxford, London, Cape Town, Dublin and Washington DC. He is one of the youngest people on record to have front-page splashes in the Cape Argus, the Belfast News Letter and The Belfast Telegraph. In 2005, Peter won the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for the most promising journalist at Oxford University, from where he gained a history and politics degree after studying at St Hugh's College.

After editing the student newspaper, Peter was president of the Oxford Media Society and chief press officer for The Oxford Union. He now works for BBC Newsnight and has covered issues including the Tony Blair succession and legacy, two elections, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, and the final stages of the Northern Irish peace process.

Peter has received a number of academic, public speaking and leadership awards. His hobbies include travel, theatre, debating, the countryside and being the source of quite terrible puns, one of which was recently used in an email to viewers by Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler, a proud moment.

He is the third recipient of the Alistair Cooke Fulbright Scholarship and will take a masters in broadcast journalism at Columbia University.

Andrew C. Forsyth
Harvard Divinity School — MTS (Religion, Ethics and Politics)

In June 2007, Andrew graduated from the University of Glasgow with a first class degree in Geography and Theology & Religious Studies, receiving the Thomas Logan prize for the most distinguished graduate in the Faculty of Arts.

Educated in Glasgow, Andrew was Captain of his school before proceeding to university. Elected to a sabbatical vice-presidency of the Students' Representative Council, he coordinated the University's Freshers' Week and the installation of its Rector. He spent a year in the United States as an exchange student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and in Washington , D.C as an intern for a national association of charitable donors. On his return to Glasgow, he was elected President of the University Dialectic Society, and founded and edited "Groundings" an undergraduate, interdisciplinary journal in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

A championship-winning debater, Andrew has served as a mentor in the English Speaking Union's outreach schemes to secondary schools, and has been a volunteer leader for several youth activities.

Named a Harvard Presidential Scholar, Andrew intends to investigate the interactions between religion, ethics and politics.

Hilary Oppong
Harvard Graduate School of Education - EdM Human Development and Psychology

Hilary graduated from the University of Leeds in 2005 with a first class honours degree in Linguistics and Phonetics and was jointly awarded the Lee Davidson prize for the ‘Best Undergraduate Student’. She was actively involved in dance whilst at Leeds and enjoyed participating in ballet, street, tap and jazz classes. Hilary was elected President of the Ballet Society in her final year and was responsible for directing and performing in the University’s Annual Dance Show.

Since graduating Hilary has been working as a civil servant at the Ministry of Justice. During this time she has worked within the Tribunals Service and the Court Funds Office and is currently based in the Human Resources Directorate at the Ministry’s headquarters. Since graduation, Hilary’s travels have taken her to Japan and Ghana where she was able to combine travelling with her interest in education and spent time acting as a teaching assistant in various classroom settings in the two countries.

Hilary will spend her Fulbright year studying Human Development and Psychology at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Whilst there, she intends to further her linguistics background through courses that explore the interrelationship between language and educational development. Hilary is also looking forward to broadening her knowledge of education policies and practices in developing countries, given her ambition to work in Ghana’s education sector later in her career. She is particularly interested in the special needs area in Ghana and in policies relating to the language of instruction used in classrooms. Outside of her studies, Hilary is looking forward to playing an active part in the student culture at Harvard and venturing to as many new parts of the US as her free time will allow.

Tasanee Smith
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Master in Public Health

Tasanee read pre-clinical medicine at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and completed her clinical studies at Merton College, Oxford. During this period she sang with Trinity College Chapel Choir, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and Schola Cantorum of Oxford, and co-founded the Oxford Forum for Medical Humanities. After graduating she trained in general internal medicine in London, at the Hammersmith Hospital and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, gaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. She has worked in Sri Lanka, Vanuatu and Nepal, and received national awards from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians for associated research projects. Increasing interest in international health and poverty-related health disparities motivated her decision to spend a year gaining the Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She intends to focus on blindness prevention, equitable health system development in low-income countries and health economics during her year as a Fulbright Scholar, and is looking forward to singing at the Peabody Conservatory. She plans to continue NHS training in ophthalmology in London after her year in the US.

William Straw
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia – Master in Public Administration

Will was born in London in 1980. After attending Pimlico School, he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford before being elected President of Oxford University Student Union. In this role, Will played an active part in the national campaign against university top-up fees. Since 2003, he has worked for HM Treasury as a policy adviser on productivity and enterprise policy, and as a press officer.
In his spare time, Will is Vice-Chair of Governors at the Lambeth primary school that he attended. He co-runs Pub Politics, a cross-party forum where up-and-coming MPs and journalists speak and answer questions in an informal setting. He also works with Never Again International, an international youth network who campaign on conflict and genocide prevention. He is an avid supporter of Blackburn Rovers FC.

Kirstie Whitaker
University of California (Berkeley) – PhD Neuroscience

Kirstie graduated from the University of Bristol in 2004 with a first class honours BSc in Physics. She followed her desire to apply her knowledge and training for the benefit of others to the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, where she attained her MSc in Medical Physics, funded by a two year Commonwealth Scholarship. Her thesis focused on MRI research of adolescent development and was presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in May 2007.

She has a huge range of extracurricular interests; having trained as a dance teacher while studying for her A-levels at home in Manchester she later worked for two Stagecoach Theatre Arts schools in Bristol, she was the first woman to hold the position of bar manager in her hall of residence in Bristol and in Canada she was the first European member of the UBC Ski and Board Club executive committee. She can most often be found skiing down a mountain in winter or making a valiant attempt to surf the waves in summer.

She will continue to use MRI to investigate childhood and adolescent neural development in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley and is eager to explore Northern California's beautiful natural surroundings and immerse herself into American culture, especially the parts which involve two planks of wood, two feet of fresh snow and a dramatic downward gradient.

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar
Mark de Rond
Stanford University

Mark is a Reader in Strategy and Organization at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Darwin College. He completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford (Christ Church) in 2000. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was an assistant professor at ESSEC Business School, Paris (1999-2001), and a college lecturer at University College and Trinity College (Oxford University).

As an organizational ethnographer, Mark studies people by living with them under the same conditions, to try to understand how and why their world makes sense (to them). His most recent project involved a seven-month observation of the Cambridge University Boat Club as it prepared to select and train a crew to race Oxford in the annual Boat Race.

The more philosophical strand of Mark’s research focuses on causation and causal explanation in the organization sciences, with specific interests in relating strategic choice, chance and inevitability; in serendipity in organizational innovation; and in evaluating causal explanations of samples of one.

His publications include two award-winning articles and two books on strategic collaborations. His 2003 book “Strategic Alliances as Social Facts: Business, Biotechnology & Intellectual History” received the 2005 George R Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management, awarded annually to the book judged to have made the most significant contribution to advancing management knowledge.

Fulbright AstraZeneca Fellow
Carolyn Gauntlett
Stanford University

Carolyn read the Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, graduating with first class honours in 2004. She then spent 6 months traveling prior to returning to the Chemistry Department at Cambridge in February 2005, to commence doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr Matthew Gaunt. Her PhD research has focused on natural product synthesis using novel cascade strategies. Alongside her own research, Carolyn has spent much time supervising first year undergraduate students of chemistry within Cambridge.

During the course of her post-doctoral research, Carolyn will work with Professor Paul Wender at Stanford University. They plan to work, supported by her Fulbright-AstraZeneca Award, on the synthesis of analogues of the natural product Apoptolidin to help gain a deeper understanding of its mechanism of action. Apoptolidin has the potential to be a revolutionary anticancer treatment, and this highly interdisciplinary work is at the forefront of research in this area internationally.

Carolyn is passionate about foreign travel and music, and her love of working with children led her to become involved with Campus Children’s Holidays, a Cambridge student-run charity. She undertook a highly successful year as Chairman of this charity, in addition to many years of volunteering on Campus projects. She hopes very much to find something similar in Stanford with which to get involved.

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar
Mark Hickey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mark Callaghan Hickey graduated with a first class degree in physics and applied mathematics from University College Cork in 2002. During the degree, he took on summer work placements in Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Munich and the Swedish Institute for Metals Research in Stockholm. In 2005, he completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge in Prof. Sir Michael Pepper’s semiconductor physics group. This research focused on injection of spin polarised electrons in a quantum well and the electronic structure of highly spin polarised metals. The work was funded by Cambridge European Trust, EPSRC and Toshiba CASE industry awards. The results are published in Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review and J. Phys. Condensed Matter.

Mark is a member of the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society and is a referee for J. Phys. Condensed Matter.

The Fulbright scholarship is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the group of Dr. Jagadeesh Moodera with whom it is intended to pursue the investigation of injection and manipulation of spin in a 2-dimensional electron gas. This area of physics holds strong potential for the development of real quantum computing architectures in the future.

Apart from Physics, Mark enjoys cross country running, surfing and plays in an alternative metal band called 'Drug Penguin' and intends to immerse himself in the live music scene of Boston, while there.

Fulbright Cancer Research Fellow
Marianna Papaspyridonos
Cornell University

After completing her primary and secondary education in Athens, Greece, Marianna moved to the UK to study Biochemistry at the University of Hertfordshire. During the extramural year of her BSc, Marianna worked on the Human Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge and was a co-author of the publication of the first whole-chromosome linkage disequilibrium map in the international science journal Nature. She then moved to London to take up a collaborative BBSRC- GlaxoSmithKline funded PhD studentship between the Dept of Cardiovascular Medicine at King’s College London and GSK. Using gene expression analysis, Marianna identified a number of novel genes that may be used as therapeutic targets or biomarkers of atherosclerotic plaque instability. She presented her work in national and international meetings and won a Young Investigator Award for her oral presentation at the British Atherosclerosis Society meeting in 2004. Following the completion of her PhD and subsequent publication of her doctoral work in the peer-reviewed journal ATVB, Marianna was awarded a prestigious Junior Research Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation to continue her research at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford.

In New York, Marianna will work on haematopoietic progenitor cells and their role in the formation of the pre-metastatic niche at the laboratory of Prof David Lyden in Weill Cornell Medical College. Marianna will work towards gaining further insights into newly discovered mechanisms of metastasis by identifying key genes that may be involved in this process. Marianna is also planning to continue fundraising for cancer research. In addition to her research, Marianna enjoys co-supervising research project students and promoting science in secondary education and is passionate about international travel.

Fulbright Police Fellow
Charles Rimmer

Charlie is a serving Police Inspector with the Hampshire Constabulary, and is currently the staff officer for the Assistant Chief Constable (Specialist Operations). Within this role Charlie has taken on a strategic lead in the development and delivery of counter terrorism within the force and the South East Region. Working closely with Special Branch and Operations, Charlie has managed the development and introduction of Operation Rainbow for the force, a national counter terrorist operation, and now works at a regional level within the South East Regional Intelligence Cell along with other forces within their area, their respective Special Branch and Operations teams, and the Security Service. A graduate from Leicester University in 1995, Charlie is looking to take the research gained regarding the trust and confidence between law enforcement agencies and Muslim communities within New York, and develop his understanding in this area when he commences a Masters in Counter Terrorism studies following his Fulbright Police Fellowship. Charlie is widely traveled and has a passion for adventure motorcycling.

Fulbright Interfaith Community Action Programme Fellow
Dr Maureen Sier

We are delighted to announce that Dr Maureen Sier, will be one of thirteen participants in the inaugural Fulbright Interfaith Community Programme, which begins in Santa Barbara, California in August 2007. The programme was launched by the US Dept of State with the aim of encouraging and facilitating interfaith cooperation between communities and promoting mutual understanding. Eighteen countries were invited to participate and a total of 28 candidates submitted. Dr Sier, who is based in Glasgow and works with the Interfaith Council of Scotland, will be joined by colleagues from India, Indonesia, Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, The Philippines, Russia and Turkey. Candidates were selected primarily for their demonstration of a high level of commitment to fostering religious pluralism. Dr Sier will be based at the Auburn Theological Seminary in New York for the majority of the programme.

Fulbright Scholars 2006/07

James Dacre
Columbia University – MFA Theatre Directing

James read Theology at Jesus College, Cambridge where he won the College Theology prize. At Cambridge, he edited and re-launched Varsity, ran the Visual Arts Society and played university rugby union. He has directed extensively in theatre, opera and dance across the university.

James has championed new writing in a theatre scene that favours well-established works, and taken two multi-award-nominated plays to the Edinburgh Fringe. He recently directed premiers of work by Torben Betts and Wales' foremost playwright, Dic Edwards. James has written for numerous national and independent publications and enjoys marathon running, painting and travelling. He will study directing under Anne Bogart, Brian Kulick and Andrei Serban at Columbia University.

Austin Kilroy
MIT – PhD Urban Planning

Born in London in 1980, Austin went to state-funded schools in Hampshire, then King’s College Cambridge, where he graduated in Philosophy, Economics and SPS. For two years he worked as parliamentary researcher to the Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords and Fulbright alumna, Shirley Williams, then embarked on jobs in international development, conflict transformation, post-conflict economics and urban planning, in the former Soviet Union, France and China, working for International Alert, Groupe URD, the OSCE, the Dynamic City Foundation and Claydon Gescher Associates. Meanwhile he has first-hand experience of 62 other countries and quasi-states, has been a percussionist since age 8, is happiest when snowboarding, and will be doing his PhD at MIT on the interaction of space and economics with ‘stability’ in developing-world cities.

Indraneil Mahapatra
Harvard Business School – MBA

After spending a year conducting genetic research on axon pathfinding in New York, Neil read Biological Sciences at Oxford University, where he was also elected to President of the Oxford Union. Following a successful summer internship, Neil began his career in the Investment Banking division of Morgan Stanley, focusing initially on Healthcare companies in the Corporate Finance department, and later rotating to the firm's newly created UK Corporate Broking group, advising UK corporates on a range of equity related issues. Neil was also nominated by Morgan Stanley to spend three months managing Morgan Stanley's 70-strong Investment Banking outsourcing office in Mumbai, India, where he successfully steered the operation through the country's worst monsoons for 100 years. Outside of work, Neil is involved in the local community and is passionate about healthcare, politics and international relations. He is currently a school governor for an inner city state school in London and a member of the Conservative party team that covers foreign aid and international development issues.

John McDermott
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard – MPP Public Policy

John graduated from the London School of Economics with a first class honours degree in History. In addition he received the James Joll Prize for the best dissertation at LSE, and the Raynes Prize for outstanding examination results across the whole school. Prior to LSE John began a degree in Medicine at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he completed two years with merit and authored an award-winning dissertation. While at LSE he wrote extensively on a variety of topics for the student newspaper and was active in student politics. John was also first-team captain and club captain of the LSE Football Club and represented the University of London select team. No stranger to promoting Anglo-American cooperation, John has interned at the British Consulate-General in New York where he worked on a number of projects aiming to help British companies and institutions gain entry into the American market. In addition to experience in the diplomatic, legal and financial spheres, John continues to work for a non-profit organization in his home city of Edinburgh. This experience of working with young people with learning and behavioural difficulties at a policy and grass-roots level inspired him to take up a Master's in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. At KSG John intends to focus on establishing cutting-edge policy frameworks to tackle educational disadvantage and social exclusion. John also writes screenplays for short films, and enjoys travelling, literature, music, and baseball.

Katherine Randall
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard – Masters in Public Policy

Katherine graduated with a first in History from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she was awarded the Edward Spearing Prize for History.

After three months learning Italian in Rome, Katherine joined the UK Civil Service fast stream. Based in Whitehall and Brussels, she has worked on a range of policy areas including coordinating the European Union’s response to the Madrid bombings and managing a project to enable transsexual people in the UK to gain legal recognition in their acquired gender. Most recently she helped establish the UK’s new Commission for Equality and Human Rights; she negotiated in Brussels over the creation of a European Fundamental Rights Agency; and she contributed to the review of the Human Rights Act 1998, requested by the Prime Minister. Time spent both at the United Nations Summer School in Geneva and working on a project to provide permanent homes for orphans of AIDS victims in Ecuador confirmed Katherine’s intention to focus her career in the field of human rights. At Harvard, she will study at the Kennedy School’s Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy and Practice.

Outside work, Katherine is involved in her local community in east London, acting as school governor for a state school in Tower Hamlets; she is passionate about music, singing with the Bach Choir and playing the French horn; and she is looking forward to sculling on the Charles River. Before departing for Boston, Katherine is walking 500 miles from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain.

Tom Rowson
Georgetown Public Policy Institute – MPP Public Policy

Tom’s goal is to contribute to ‘good change’ in the developing world. His interest in international development began when he went to Atlantic College, an international sixth form college. Inspired by the College’s focus on enabling students to become global citizens and positive agents of change, Tom spent a year living and working in a remote village in The Gambia. Through his undergraduate career at Durham, Tom balanced academics with practical action, first as Director of DUCK, Durham’s RAG, and then by setting up durham21, an award-winning website and social enterprise. Tom also spent a year in Peru on a VSO Scholarship designing and implementing development-related projects for a regional NGO.

Since graduating, Tom has worked for PA Consulting Group as a management consultant in the UK public sector. He has worked across a range of government departments with roles focusing on project management and performance improvement, and led the development of PA’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme.

Tom is looking forward to adding academic depth to his broad practical experiences while studying at Georgetown and using it as a stepping stone to a career in international development. He and his wife, Kate, are immensely excited about getting under the skin of American culture, in particular by hearing and dancing to jazz, salsa, bluegrass, hip-hop and the blues.

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar
Neil Glasser
National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC), and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder

Neil is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where he completed an MA (Honours) degree in Geography in 1988 and a PhD in Physical Geography in 1991. He has worked as a Quaternary Geologist and Geomorphologist for the Nature Conservancy Council for England (1992-1995) and as a Lecturer in Physical Geography at Liverpool John Moores University (1995-1999). He took up his present post in the Centre for Glaciology at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1999 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002 and Reader in 2005. His principal research interests are in glacial geology, glacial geomorphology and the application of this evidence to assess the response of large ice masses to Quaternary environmental change. More specifically, Neil’s research aims to answer questions relating to glacial landform development, glacial sedimentary products and dating glacier fluctuations. He has extensive fieldwork experience in glacial environments, having worked in Antarctica, the Himalayas, Patagonia, Peru, Iceland, Svalbard and Greenland.

Neil has published over 70 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals, as well as three major research text books on glaciology and glacial geomorphology. Recent research papers include contributions on Holocene glacier fluctuations and ice dynamics of the North Patagonian Icefield, glacial landform development and structural glaciology, and the response of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica to recent climate change. In 2007 he will be working with staff at the NSIDC and CIRES at the University of Colorado at Boulder on a collaborative research project entitled “The Structure and Stability of Antarctic Peninsula Ice Shelves”. This is a project using remote sensing, especially satellite imagery, to determine the structures, dynamics (e.g. flow patterns and velocities) and debris transport patterns on Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves. The overall aim is to use these data to determine the possible past and future instabilities of Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves.

Click here to read a recent NASA article featuring Neil's research.

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar
Matthew Scase
Cornell University

Matthew graduated from the University of Oxford in 2001 (MMath) specializing in the mathematics of fluid motion and also competing twice in the Varsity athletics match for the Dark Blues. He went on to receive his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2003 with his thesis on vortex motion through a stratified fluid. This included a detailed study of the internal wave structure generated in a stratified fluid by a moving body. After receiving his PhD he went on to work on fundamental problems relating to jets and plumes. This more recent work has been extremely well received in the community and he has published this, along with much of his PhD, in the leading peer-reviewed journal in his field, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Alongside his own research, Matthew has invested much time in lecturing and supervising students of mathematics and fluid mechanics in the University of Cambridge. His supervisory skills also extend to responsibility of Duke of Edinburgh Award groups in the British mountains.

During the course of his post-doctoral research, his collaboration with Professor Lord Hunt (a frequent visitor to Cornell and former Fulbright Scholar himself) drew him to the attention of Professor Williamson in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department of Cornell. They plan to work, supported by his Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, on the vortices created in the wake of aircraft. They hope to achieve a much deeper understanding of this flow, which has very significant impacts on both environmental and commercial levels.

Matthew enjoys skiing, rock climbing and playing the piano in his spare time.

Fulbright Cancer Fellow
Beth Psaila
Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York

Beth graduated from Clare College, Cambridge with a First Class degree, and was awarded the William Butler Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement. She went on to study clinical medicine at University College Hospital, London, where she qualified with the highest academic performance in her year, and was proxime accessit to the London-wide University Gold Medal for Medicine. Following several years working in a clinical capacity in London, she has now completed her MRCP and aspires to become a haematologist. In New York, she will study megakaryocytopoeisis, working at the world-renowned department of Hematology & Oncology at Weill-Cornell Hematology-Oncology Institute, under the supervision of Professors David Lyden and James Bussel. The project aims firstly to compare malignant and non-malignant bone marrow failure states, in an attempt to further our understanding of what signals to the bone marrow to increase platelet production. A second phase will look into how platelets act as mediators in tumour angiogenesis and metastasis, building on recent advances pioneered at Cornell.

Beth is passionate about foreign travel and music, and previously was an accomplished saxophonist playing in several Jazz and Classical ensembles, and ran a jazz club during her time at Cambridge. She looks forward to exploring some of the hundreds of music venues in Manhattan during her time in New York.

Fulbright Police Fellow
Sandie Hastings

Sandie’s eighteen years as a Police Officer began in 1970 and re-started in 1993 after a sixteen year break to raise her two children. Three years specialising in Child Protection duties led to her current role as Restorative Justice and Reparation Development Officer in Leicestershire’s Youth Offending Service.

In the last six years Sandie has led an award-winning team of reparation workers who supervise young offenders engaging in a wide variety of community service projects which are victim-led where possible. Sandie also facilitates Restorative Justice Conferences, bringing victims, offenders and their communities face to face where appropriate and requested, in the aftermath of crime. Cases range from minor offences to extremely serious crimes including sex offending.

Five of her cases are published in the Mediation UK book 40 Cases of Restorative Justice and Victim Offender Mediation which is used as a teaching guide for practitioners and scholars.

Sandie graduated from Nottingham Trent University with the Professional Certificate in Effective Practice in Youth Justice in 2004. She has a passion for her work and believes that if the principles of Restorative Justice lay at the heart of the Criminal Justice System it would help to build stronger, safer and more cohesive and inclusive communities, who take more responsibility for their own actions and for each other.

As well as sharing experience and ideas, Sandie hopes to learn through her research in the USA, ‘what works’ with neighbourhoods and individuals, when applying restorative approaches, as opposed to a traditional adversarial route. On her return, Sandie aims to implement a National Policy Framework in the UK with which to apply Restorative Justice in the Neighbourhood Policing context.

Fulbright Police Fellow
Ajoy Gosain

Ajoy Gosain is a Detective Inspector with the Metropolitan Police Service. He has a Masters in Criminology and is a member of the British Society of Criminology. He currently manages the Met Police Careers Team in the Human Resources Directorate and is also undertaking a degree in Human Resource Management.

His policing background is extremely diverse and includes Borough Policing, Murder Investigation, and the Anti-Terrorist Branch at New Scotland Yard. He has been involved in Home Office-led recruitment campaigns and has recently been engaged in working with the Commission for Racial Equality in a mentoring and shadowing programme. He has written articles on race, ethnicity and crime for the ethnic press.

His area of research is the recruitment of under-represented groups to the police service and from September 2006, Ajoy will be attached to American University in Washington DC and will conduct his research amongst a number of Police Departments, as well as lecturing to students on Criminal Justice issues in the UK.

He is widely travelled and enjoys politics, reading and many sporting and cultural activities.

Fulbright Robertson Visiting Professor of British History
Richard C. Allen
Westminster College, Missouri

Richard C. Allen undertook his History degree and PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 2004 he joined the University of Sunderland as a lecturer in early modern history. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2004, and holds Visiting Fellowships at the Universities of Newcastle and Northumbria. He was also a Gest Fellow at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

His main research interests are in the history of early modern radical Dissent, especially Quakerism, and Celtic migration from the seventeenth century. His monograph, Resistance to Respectability: Quakerism in Wales 1654-1836, will be published by the University of Wales Press in 2006/7. Other work includes three edited collections, which are due to be published between 2006 and 2007: Faith of Our Fathers: Six Centuries of Popular Belief in Britain and Ireland; The Religious History of Wales: A Survey of Religious life and practice from the seventeenth century to the present day; Ireland: The Word, The Icon and The Ritual.

He has published essays and articles on seventeenth century emigration to Pennsylvania and cultural maintenance in the colony; reverse migration from Nantucket Island to Milford Haven in the 1790s; Welsh Quaker women and persecution; Welsh religious communities in the wake of the Toleration Act; Captain Cook and his association with eighteenth century Yorkshire Quakers; early modern consumerism in the North East of England; Welsh cunning-folk; poor relief in south-east Wales in the early modern period; Welsh and Irish cultural identities in the North-East of England; popular culture and Quaker moral reform in the early eighteenth century; and a historical appraisal of the John Ford movie, The Quiet Man. A lengthy study has also been made of the North East Chamber of Commerce from 1815 to 2006, and he has had 21 entries published in the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004). He has appeared on television and radio programmes, and was the historical consultant for the S4C/Llifion Welsh language six-part costume drama, Y Staffell Ddirgel (The Secret Room).

His current projects include a comprehensive investigation into Welsh Quaker emigration to Pennsylvania, and a co-authored study of Quaker Networks and Moral Reform in the North East of England, to be published in 2008. He is also completing the editing and annotating of a diary of a Nantucket whaler-woman for the University of Sydney Press, and finishing a study of his home town of Newport in south Wales for the University of Wales Press, Histories of Wales Series. Other research includes the Quaker community in Barbados, and an examination of the Welsh and Irish Societies in America.

He is a committee member of the Quaker Historians and Archivists, Quaker Studies Research Association, and a member of the migrations strand of the North East of England Historical Institute (NEEHI). He was editor of North East History and twice Guest Editor of Quaker Studies.

Fulbright Scholars 2005/06

Ewan Jones
Fulbright Alistair Cooke Award in Journalism - NYU

Ewan graduated with a double first in English from King’s College, Cambridge, where he was elected a scholar, acted in a number of plays, and wrote for Varsity. His move into serious journalism began with a stint at the Evening Standard’s Diary Desk, where he attempted, maladroitly, to pry gossip from low-grade celebrities. He then took up an internship with the New Statesman, for whom he continues to contribute articles on subjects as varied as the Glastonbury Festival and American GIs. He has also taken placements with the Independent on Sunday, and the Social Market Foundation, a centrist think-tank. A keen traveller, Ewan lived and taught for four months in South Korea. He also lived and worked for sixth months in Toynbee Hall, a philanthropic organisation devoted to improving conditions in the East End of London. Ewan is the recipient of the inaugural Fulbright Alistair Cooke Award, through which he will study Journalism at NYU, in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism concentration. While living in New York, he will broadcast a weekly show for Resonance FM, a London arts radio station. He also plans to work for the BBC’s Washington bureau, and write as extensively as possible, on matters British for an American audience, and of his impressions of stateside life for the British press.

Zahaan Bharmal
Stanford Graduate School of Business – MBA

Zahaan read Physics at Oxford where he wrote for the "Cherwell" student paper and edited his college's Alternative Prospectus. In the summer before his final year, he interned with the Foreign Office in the British Embassy to the United States in Washington. After graduating, Zahaan worked for a year as a strategy consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton before joining the UK Cabinet Office as a Policy Adviser responsible for broadband and later e-Government strategy. In 2004, Zahaan joined the UK Department for International Development to write the Government's new global strategy for tackling HIV and AIDS in the developing world. The strategy was awarded an 'Oscar' by the Institute for Public Policy Research as the best UK Government policy of the year. He currently works on policy for getting more children, especially girls, into school in Africa and Asia. Zahaan is widely travelled and has had articles about his travels published, including in the Daily Telegraph. His current interests include tennis and long-distance running. He is a member of the Serpentine Running Club and recently completed the Great North Run raising over a £1,000 for Cancer Research UK.

Natasha Epissina
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard – Public Policy

Natasha was a De Lancey Senior Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated with a first in Economics. While at Cambridge, she was President of the Marshall Society. After graduating, she spent two years working for McKinsey, on a variety of projects in the UK and in Russia. She then worked in South Africa on improving access to schooling in the townships as a free-lance consultant with Link Community Development. Natasha’s last job before Harvard was at the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Office, where she was responsible for helping the Education Department develop and implement a strategy for reforming the secondary school system. She hopes to use her time at Harvard to learn about innovative approaches to state education provision in the US and innovation in public policy more generally. Natasha spends every second of her holidays travelling – she loves exploring far-flung and hidden places as well as picking up just enough of the foreign language to be understood.

Benjamin Horner
Harvard Medical School – MD Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Ben is a surgeon. He read Medicine at Cambridge and Oxford Universities whilst undertaking medical attachments in Africa, India, the Middle East and New Zealand. He has worked in several leading plastic surgery and burns units in and around London, and has a professional interest is in finding surgical reconstructive solutions to severe injuries. He has published in a range of peer-reviewed journals on current reconstructive methods and their limitations, as well as presenting at both national and international conferences. At Harvard Medical School Ben will be researching ways to safely perform hand and face transplants. If successful, this will open a new frontier in reconstructive surgery, making it possible to treat patients with severe injuries for whom there are currently no good treatment options. Ben also has an active interest in politics and has been treasurer and social secretary on the executive committee of the ‘Young Fabians’, a left of centre think-tank. He is a keen sportsman, having been president of the Oxford University Gymnastics Club, and has played trombone in a professional jazz orchestra.

Beaudry Kock
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT – PhD Hydrogeology & Geotechnical Engineering

Beaudry has recently completed an MSci degree in Environmental Geology at Imperial College London, after final year project work which focussed on the novel application of traditional geophysical techniques to modern groundwater pollution problems in the UK. It is this field which feeds his ongoing research interests at MIT in an MEng/PhD programme: he plans to work in the field of groundwater exploration research, particularly for arid parts of the world where aquifers are complex and difficult to exploit, as well as in the general study of the interaction between man and the hydro geological systems upon which we depend for our water supplies. He sees the protection of such supplies, and the ecosystems also dependent on groundwaters, as an overriding concern for modern hydro geologists. In his studies in the US, he hopes to gain understanding as to the best ways to translate hydro geological research into practical methods of improving the quality of life for Developing World populations without engendering unsustainable pressures on their local environmental resources. The unbiased balancing of the requirements for equitable distribution of global resources with the need for maintaining and improving environmental quality for current and future generations, is a challenge that Beaudry believes can be well met by the earth and environmental sciences.

Update: Beaudry is currently completing a Master's in Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT this year, and transitioning to a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, also at MIT. His Master's thesis explores the new decision-support needs of water resource managers in the face of sustainability and global change challenges. His doctoral work is already underway, and involves development of decision-support models that integrate socioeconomic and hydrogeologic components, in particular the application of agent-based modeling to problems at the intersection of hydrogeology and society. This summer he will be interning with the US Bureau of Reclamation in Denver, and working on a research project down in southeast Colorado in the Lower Arkansas River basin. There he will be conducting workshops to engage stakeholders with the development of an integrated social and biophysical model of the river system. The aim of the workshops and the research over the next two years will be to use innovative collaborative modeling approaches to help tackle some key environmental, economic and social problems in the basin, including worsening river water quality, a declining rural economy and increasing water scarcity. The project is a partnership between MIT, Colorado State University, the US Geological Survey and the US Bureau of Reclamation. Beaudry has recently presented his work at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting (2007), at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting (2006), and at several other universities and research centers around the US.

Simon Reekie
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – MFA Painting & Drawing

Simon graduated in Biotechnology from the University of Abertay in 1997. After working in research in the field of molecular biology in London, Simon returned to university to study drawing and painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, one of the best art schools in the UK. Simon graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 2004 with a first class honours degree, and he was awarded the prestigious ‘Duncan of Jordanstone Sandra McNeilance Memorial Prize’ for painting. His degree show was critically and publicly acclaimed, receiving local and national press coverage. Since graduating, Simon has been involved in many successful exhibitions, and has received numerous awards, including the Royal Scottish Academy’s John Kinross scholarship, which gave him the opportunity to study painting, sculpture and architecture in Florence for two months. Simon’s work utilises traditional painting techniques to address contemporary issues. His molecular biology background is evident throughout his cartoon-ish hyper-real portraits. Scrutinising the face in a methodical way, he highlights details more commonly captured by a microscope, such as facial pores and stray hair.

In addition to most areas of culture, Simon is passionate about the community and community development. He has been involved in volunteer work with various art groups, youth groups and health institutions in Dundee, where he utilises his skills as an artist to help and stimulate others. He is also passionate about football, and follows his local football club, Dundee United, throughout Europe.

At the Art Institute of Chicago, Simon will continue to learn about painting and painting techniques, and he is particularly excited about the opportunity of developing links between Chicago and Scotland. He hopes to organise exhibitions both in the US and UK and his long term aim is to continue making a living as a professional artist, but also to teach at an art school.

Senior Scholar
Andrew McDonald
Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Andrew is an historian by training: having read Modern History at Oxford
(1980-83) he subsequently completed a PhD on inter-war British financial policy (Bristol, 1988). He entered the Public Record Office (now The National Archives) as an Assistant Keeper in 1986 and joined its Management Board in 1997. In 1996-97 he was the Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His work at Nuffield on Freedom of Information led to the publication of Open Government (McDonald & Terrill, eds; 1998). He left the Public Record Office in 2000 to work in Whitehall and has held a number of policy and change management jobs. In March 2003 he was appointed Constitution Director at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, heading up the Government's programme of constitutional reform. He leaves that post in July to begin a 12 month sabbatical. During that time he will be writing a book on the purpose of constitutions.

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar
Anne Baron
New York University – Copyright Law

Anne is a graduate of University College Dublin (BCL) and Harvard Law School (LLM). She held Lectureships in Law at the University of Warwick and University College London, and a Visiting Fellowship at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, before joining the London School of Economics in 1994, where she is currently a Senior Lecturer in Law. Her principal research interests are legal and social theory, intellectual property law, and the legal regulation of culture and the arts. Her articles, which deal with a variety of themes and issues in legal theory and copyright law, have been published in leading law journals – both in Britain (Modern Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and the Intellectual Property Quarterly) and abroad (e.g. Studies in Law, Politics and Society; Droit et Société) – as well as in non-law journals (Oxford Literary Review; Theory, Culture and Society); and she has contributed chapters to several important edited collections on legal theory, including most recently Penner, Schiff and Nobles (eds.) Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (Oxford University Press 2002).

Since her arrival at LSE, Anne has also been busy setting up an undergraduate course in the vibrant field of intellectual property law, and establishing or contributing to several new postgraduate courses on copyright and related rights and jurisprudence. She has also been very active of late in the administration of the Law Department at LSE, and is looking forward to spending 2005-6 at New York University completing a book (to be published by Cambridge University Press) that will attempt to map the contemporary field of theoretical inquiry in relation to copyright law. She will be Senior Global Research Fellow at the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy during her residency at NYU.

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar
Anna Richards
Washington University in St. Louis

Anna graduated with double honours in Medicine (MBBS) and Medical Science (BMedSci) from Newcastle University Medical School in 1995. Her medical electives were spent in Bangladesh and East Malaysia, with first prize awarded for her report on visceral Leischmaniasis. She enjoyed her attachments to the local renal units and decided to specialise in kidney medicine from a very early stage. After graduation she worked in Newcastle and Nottingham, attaining her Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1998. She was awarded a 3-year Medical Research Council (MRC) clinical training fellowship in 1999 to examine the Genetic Factors predisposing to the Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS) under the supervision of Professors Tim and Judith Goodship in Newcastle. During this time, Anna described novel mutations in the complement regulatory proteins, Factor H and Membrane Cofactor Protein (MCP) in HUS, and was awarded her PhD in 2003. This work was widely published in peer-reviewed medical literature & findings presented nationally and internationally. Anna was awarded the prestigious AEG Raine Award, 2005, by the Renal Association of the United Kingdom for her contribution to renal science.
A collaboration developed with Professor John Atkinson during her PhD led Anna to move to Washington University in St Louis, USA in 2005. She will undertake post-doctoral research into HUS, supported by her Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award. Anna’s goal is to develop an endothelial cell-based model of HUS and use this to look at mechanisms of pharmacologically modifying/reversing the damage that occurs in the kidneys in this condition. The emphasis of all of Anna’s efforts is to try and improve the lives and health of those with HUS through her work. She enjoys travel, the ‘cello, Chinese cookery and reading biographies for relaxation.

Fulbright New Century Scholar
Heather Eggins

Heather is an academic working on issues relating to the higher education system, and the Editor of Higher Education Quarterly published by Blackwells. She has a number of current academic appointments, being Visiting Professor at the Institute for Access Studies, Staffordshire University, Visiting Professor in the Centre for Academic Practice, University of Strathclyde, and a Senior Member of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She has edited a number of books on Higher Education policy and has recently stepped down from the position of CEO of the Society for Research into Higher Education, an NGO of UNESCO.

Heather attended the 30th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in Philadelphia USA in November. She took part in a Round Table at the ASHE International Forum On ‘Fulbright New Century Scholars Program and Higher Education in the 21st Century: Global Challenge and National Response’, along with a number of other scholars, the NCS Distinguished Scholar Leader and the Senior Program Officer. She has also been chosen as Program Chair for next year’s ASHE International Forum and will be responsible for the planning and delivery of the event in 2006.

Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor in British History
Westminster College, Missouri
Philip Swan

Philip Swan is a Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln. He attended the University of Hull as a mature student reading economic and social history, graduating in 1980, and going on to complete a PhD on ‘Medical Provision in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1851 to 1871’. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health in 2001. His research interest has been on the social history of medicine in 19th century Britain and he has published on that subject. In recent years his focus of research has shifted to the history of RAF Bomber Command in Lincolnshire, including the social impact of airfield construction in 1943. Publications have included the editing and annotation of Diary of a Bomb Aimer and numerous articles on Bomber Command. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of the ERDF/RDC/Lincolnshire Tourism funded project on Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage. Dr. Swan has been the editor of the International Journal of Regional and Local History for the last twelve years. He was a Visiting Lecturer at Vantaa Polytechnic, Finland in 1995. Philip serves on a number of committees including the Military Education Committee for the East Midlands, East Midlands University Air Squadron, and is a County representative on the East Midlands Reserve Forces & Cadets Association. He is an Honorary Member of the Wickenby Register, the Squadron Association for 12 and 626 Squadrons Bomber Command. His current research is towards a book on RAF Wickenby 1943-45. In addition he intends to conduct interviews in the US towards a book based on a diary of a British trainee pilot in Arizona in 1943.

Fulbright Northern Ireland Civil Service Fellow 2005/06
Maeve Walls
Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania - Urban Regeneration

Maeve holds an MBA with Distinction from the University of Ulster and a degree in Sociology and Social Administration from the University of Stirling. She is a civil servant, currently Head of Neighbourhood Renewal in the Department for Social Development, working across government departments and with the wider public, private and community sectors to regenerate Northern Ireland’s most deprived neighbourhoods. Prior to joining the Northern Ireland Civil Service, she was Deputy Chief Executive in the Northern Ireland Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, one of Northern Ireland’s largest voluntary organisations. In 2002 she was selected by the Project on Justice in Times of Transition, an inter-faculty initiative at Harvard University, to attend the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Programme. The Project brings together individuals from a broad spectrum of countries to share experiences in ending conflict, building civil society and fostering peaceful coexistence. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the North East Institute of Further and Higher Education.

Northern Ireland is undergoing a period of profound change that affects its demographic make up, its economic opportunities and its social and community development patterns. These changes are reshaping the role of cities, towns and neighbourhoods, the people living in them and the services that support them. The focus of Maeve’s Fulbright Fellowship is to look outwards, distilling the evidence of sustainable regeneration practice in the US and combining it with explanation and analysis of what lessons can be learned and applied. The intention is to identify innovative approaches to help disadvantaged communities in Northern Ireland grow in more inclusive, competitive and sustainable ways.

Fulbright AstraZeneca Fellow
Sach Mukherjee
University of California, Berkeley – Statistical Bioinformatics

Sach read Computer Science at the University of York, graduating with First Class Honours in 2001. He then accepted a scholarship to attend Cambridge University’s Engineering Department, receiving a Masters degree in speech recognition and language processing. He moved to Oxford in 2002 to take up a prestigious BBSRC Research Studentship under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Roberts in the Department of Engineering Science and Prof. Sarah Gurr in Plant Sciences. At Berkeley, Sach will work with Prof. Terry Speed in the Department of Statistics and collaborators at UCSF on computational and statistical aspects of cancer systems biology. The research will exploit a diverse array of genomic data to develop a quantitative understanding of molecular influences on breast cancer. This highly interdisciplinary work is at the forefront of research in this area internationally. In addition to his academic work, Sach is involved in promoting science at the high-school level, is a keen quizzer and University Challenge contestant, and plays jazz-rock guitar.

Fulbright Cancer Fellow
Mandeep Sagoo
Thomas Jefferson University, PA – Ocular Oncology

Mandeep is a specialist registrar in Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and has a special interest in ocular tumours. He graduated from King’s College London with 1st Class Honours in Basic Medical Sciences and Biochemistry and then undertook the MB, PhD programme at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His PhD thesis on electrophysiology of the retina won the Gedge Prize of Cambridge University. During his gap year he had a Churchill Travelling Fellowship for expedition work in the Portugal. While in Philadelphia he will work at the world-renowned Ocular Oncology Service of the Wills Eye Hospital, under the direction of Dr Jerry Shields and Dr Carol Shields, focussing on treatment of cancers of the eye in children and adults. He will undertake clinical research on the morbidity and mortality of these conditions.

Fulbright Police Fellow
Mark Lavelle
FBI Academy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory – isotope tracing

Mark graduated with a degree in geology from Imperial College, London, before carrying out post-graduate research in isotope chemistry at the Universities of Cape Town and Cambridge. In 1996, Mark moved to the British Antarctic Survey, where he worked on a field- and laboratory-based multinational project unravelling the glacial history of Antarctica. Mark returned briefly to the University of Cambridge in 2001, where he managed the cross-university Committee for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies.

Mark is now a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Service in London.

Fulbright Hubert Humphrey Scholar
John Houghton

John is a senior policy advisor at the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. His professional interests are in housing, urban renewal and anti-poverty policies. After graduating from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1999, John studied for a Masters in British Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London and is an associate researcher at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. He is currently writing a book on the history and future of social housing and its role in the regeneration of British cities and has written for periodicals and journals. John has also been a school governor and a local councillor in the London Borough of Lewisham. At the Hubert Humphrey Institute, he will undertake a research project into the lessons from US cities for the UK government’s mixed communities agenda. On his return he hopes to shape the mixed communities agenda within Whitehall and on the ground, by linking communities and civic leaders in the US and the UK.

Fulbright Scholars 2004/05

Edward Anderson
Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University – International Relations

Ed graduated with a Masters in Aerospace Engineering (1st Class honours) from the University of Bristol in 2002. His professional interest has been space technology applications for sustainable development. He interned at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna on Disaster Management applications, and then worked for the European Space Agency in Paris and Rome, developing applications of Earth Observation satellites for epidemiology and public health. His work involves environmental monitoring from space of vector-borne disease habitats such as the mosquito in malaria applications, for which he has established a private research group investigating community level surveillance systems. At Johns Hopkins University he will specialise on the economics and international relations of Development from a high-technology perspective, and use his studies in the US to develop a more profound understanding of international aid and development projects, their needs and the economics of international disease control. His long-term aim is to be able to apply a more user-focussed approach to high technology projects in sustainable development.

Perviz Asaria
Harvard School of Public Health

Perviz Asaria obtained the Dudley Prize for best overall performance graduating with 1stClass honours in Biological and Clinical Sciences from Imperial College, London. She went on to gain a degree in medicine. Perviz has extensive clinical experience as a doctor and became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2004. She has spent time in the field in Sudan and Iran. Most recently she undertook an assessment of the way in which the separation barrier in the West Bank impacts on the health status and the human rights of the Palestinian community. Perviz’s interests lie in tackling inequalities in healthcare provision, and she has worked with community organisations in England to provide outreach activities to marginalised populations. Perviz studied public health and specialised in international health and humanitarian studies during her Fulbright year at Harvard University. Whilst there she continued to engage in community outreach, serving in a local school in a deprived area, as well as volunteering in a shelter for the homeless in her spare time. Perviz is responsible for founding the Islamic Society at the School of Public Health and in creating an inter-faith forum in order to promote understanding between Muslims and those of other faiths. She plans to work as a public health consultant for an international development organisation on her return to England.

James Crabtree
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard – Public Administration

James Crabtree graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in Government. He was a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Public Policy Research, working on the IPPR’s Manifesto for a Digital Britain when he applied for a Fulbright Postgraduate award to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He also worked with the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust to establish a democracy commission examining the future of British politics. Prior to that he set up and ran the iSociety project at The Work Foundation, spending two and half yeas examining various aspects of technology, social change and reform of Government. James is also: the founder of Voxpolitics.com, an online think tank examining e-democracy; a founder of MySociety, an organisation developing online civic applications; a trustee of the charity UK Citizen’s Online Democracy; an associate editor of Opendemocracy.net; a board member of the political journal Renewal; and a volunteer on the team who helped create www.theyworkforyou.com. He has written for various publications, including The New Statesman, Prospect and The Observer.

Having completed his Masters in Public Policy, James is spending 3 months in Washington DC, working with the think tank, the New Democratic Network, examining the political implications of globalization, political use of technology, the future of immigration policy and the renewal of progressive politics.