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4 Feb 2022: During university, I knew I was interested in human behaviour and healthcare, and was open to a range of career options that would help me combine the two. For a long time, I thought this would limit

2 Nov 2022: In July 2022, with the support of Gateway Challenges Funding, I was able to go on a three week interrailing trip around Europe. Primarily I travelled from city to city by train, visiting seven countri

2 Feb 2022: From mid-July until the beginning of October, I spent nine weeks working with the Quantum Matter group in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. My project involves growing yttrium-based

2 Nov 2022: This summer, after I finished my second year in biological Natural Sciences, I used my Gateway Funding to fund the living costs for my two work experiences in Neurology and Psychiatry in Cambridge. I

2 Nov 2022: This year I was fortunate enough to receive funding from Gateway to take a trip to the south of Spain. As a former modern languages student, studying French and Spanish, I wanted to use the funding to

5 Jan 2022: With my Gateway Challenges Funding Award, I travelled alone from the 9th to the 15th of September to Seville. There were several reasons which pushed me to do this trip. The first was that I was reall

2 Feb 2022: In September 2021, I visited Munich and Vienna, funded partially by the Gateway programme and the Gateway Challenges funding and a Rosemary Murray Travel Exhibition.  Originally, I planned to

5 Jan 2022: With COVID restrictions still in place, I was unable to go interrailing as I had planned for my Gateway funding, so I had to resort to my Plan B which was hiking in the Lake District. The Gateway Chal

5 Jan 2022: For my Gateway challenge, I decided to complete the three highest peaks in the United Kingdom: Ben Nevis (Scotland), Scafell Pike (England) and Snowdon (Wales).  On the morning of the 14th of

2 Feb 2022: In summer of 2021, I used the Gateway fund and the Murray Edwards Travel Bursary to travel to Manchester as part of an all female production of literary materials. The show covered topics ranging from

5 Jan 2022: With my Gateway Challenges Funding, I decided to launch my own YouTube channel. I had been thinking about starting it for about a year and a half, and Gateway gave me both the confidence and the fundi

13 Jan 2022: Imagine a world where you can enjoy any type of meat knowing that no animals have been killed or even harmed before it made it to your plate – it was grown from a single cell in a lab. Could this be b

25 Apr 2022: Your study space Creating the perfect environment to study in will make it easier to keep procrastination at bay and concentration levels at an all-time high. By taking control and managing your pr

27 Sep 2022: How many times have you convinced yourself that you leave work to the last minute because you ‘work better under pressure’? Like many people out there, I think that I perform better under pressure. Le

4 Nov 2022: Brought up bilingual speaking English and French with an aptitude or exposure to languages, I came to New Hall as it was then to read MML (Spanish and German). Within a couple of weeks I had changed t

27 Sep 2022: For decades the question “can we get superpowers?” has been recurring in every generation. With all the popular Marvel and DC movies, there is no doubt that young kids and adults are inspired by super

21 Mar 2022: I remember listening to a talk about Imposter Syndrome in my first week as a Natural Scientist at Cambridge. I nodded my head and eagerly made a few notes in typical fresher fashion. As soon as I step

21 Feb 2022: Socio-economic background is also a barrier to opportunities. In working towards a more even field, agents of change need to encompass all those whose access to the arts is impeded. ... In this year’s report we have some statistics on socio-economic

14 Dec 2022: Center for History and Economics at Harvard as Prize Fellow in Economics, Politics and History.