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5 Dec 2019: This summer, I worked for two months as an au pair in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. I used my gateway funding to help fund language lessons at the nearby language school. As an MML student, I ha

11 Dec 2019: My trip to France, funded by Gateway, has been an amazing journey of personal and academic growth, as well as a lovely holiday for me! Being surrounded by the language has really helped to strengthen

10 Dec 2019: My challenge this year was to discover the city of London from the perspective of a tourist, but try to pay attention to the habits of Londoners. I wanted to answer the questions: "What does a person

10 Dec 2019: Using Gateway and Rosemary Murray Travel Funds allowed me to travel to Singapore for six days this summer with my sister.  Singapore had always been somewhere I had wanted to visit, partly due

9 Dec 2019: At present, I am gaining work experience as a Legal Intern at a very prestigious law firm in London, Fietta LLP, which specialises in public international law. In my opinion, the practitioners at this

5 Dec 2019: This July, due to the financial help I received from Gateway funding, my friend and I were able to embark on a trip to Larnaca, Cyprus. The week-long holiday was filled with both action in terms of ex

11 Dec 2019: Along with two friends from Murray Edwards, I spent five days travelling independently in North Wales. We stayed in a self-catered holiday cottage in Blaenau Ffestiniog, and visited many places in Sno

17 May 2019: It is common knowledge that plants are living organisms, just like humans, dogs, and whales. However, we do not treat plants in the same way we treat animals – this is mainly due to the belief th

10 Dec 2019: This year I was lucky enough to receive the Murray Edwards Gateway Funding and used the funding to complete the AFF Accelerated Freefall Level 1 Skydiving Course. Since completing a charity skydive a

11 Dec 2019: During the summer I travelled to Berlin with a friend from college. Having been lucky enough to travel the previous year using Gateway money, I was keen to visit another place I hadn’t had the chance

10 Dec 2019: With the help of the Travel Exhibition award, I went on a three week archaeological field school in central Sicily.  The field school consisted of the 9th season of excavations at Case Basti

10 Dec 2019: In the summer of 2019, I travelled to the USA and I am grateful for the Gateway Fund and Rosemary Murray Travel Exhibition for supporting this journey, which was packed with lots of interesting e

9 Oct 2019: In 2016 Gayle Chong Kwan donated six large-scale photographic works from the series Cockaigne dating from 2004 to the New Hall Art Collection, one of the largest donations of photographs to date. The

11 Feb 2019: Murray Edwards - statement to students on confidentiality Students at Murray Edwards College are entitled to privacy, and those working within the College will do their utmost to respect confidenti

12 Dec 2019: This summer I spent four weeks travelling through Europe by train, making long stays in Poland, Spain and Portugal, but also stopping off at countries en route such as Austria and Switzerland, passing

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12 Dec 2019: My aim for this summer was to visit a Latin American country in order to practice my Spanish and experience solo travel with a social and anthropological focus – to meet locals and learn about the cou

11 Dec 2019: Thanks to Gateway Funding and the Rosemary Murray Travel Award, I was able to travel to Paris for the first time, and spend a week there visiting some of the city's amazing historic sites. 

14 Mar 2019: Amika George, a first year History undergraduate at Murray Edwards College, started campaigning on period poverty two years ago. Having read that some girls in the UK were missing school because they

23 Jul 2019: INOTA CHETA. Co-founder of the non-profit She Entrepreneur, Inota promotes female economic empowerment. ... Following the 2014/15 global economic slowdown, economic contraction pushed unemployment up to 33%.

10 Dec 2019: I am really grateful for the Gateway Challenges and Rosemary Murray Travel Exhibition funding that I received to teach in and travel around China for two months this summer. Before even arrivi

16 Dec 2019: Gateway funding enabled me stay in North Wales with two of my friends from College during 16-21 September. This trip involved my first independent flight (Exeter-Manchester) and my first tim

11 Dec 2019: At the end of June 2019, I travelled with three friends to Munich, Germany, where we stayed for three nights. This was my first time abroad without a parent or teacher and was the first time I’d been

16 Dec 2019: The main purpose of the trip was to do the Kerry way, a 210km long distance trail in Ireland. The first day saw amazing weather, as we walked along the Gap of Dunloe into Black Valley. The walk contin

11 Dec 2019: The generous contributions from Gateway and Rosemary Murray Travel Funds aided in my visit to Sicily this summer. After landing in Catania, I swiftly headed to Milazzo on the north coast to catch a hy

11 Dec 2019: Using the funding provided by Gateway, I visited Hungary with my chapel choir. We spent a very busy five days in Budapest and Szeged, singing in some breath-taking buildings and seeing the sights

8 Feb 2019: Statement on Freedom of Speech Adopted by Governing Body: March 2021 Review Date: Lent Term 2024   This statement sets out Murray Edwards College’s commitment to freedom of thought

6 Sep 2019: Creative Connections, Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists    Anne-Katrin Purkiss: Freelance Photographer Exhibition runs from 9 September 2019 to 29 February 2020 Anne Purkiss

17 Dec 2019: Bosnia and Herzegovina had been on my ‘bucket list’ for a long time, and from what I had heard from others or read in travel blogs (or even in my International Relations reading!), I knew it was a cou

6 Feb 2019: Operational policies and procedures Anti Bribery CCTV Policy IT regulations Rules for the use of academic computing facilities at Murray Edwards College Rules for the publication

10 Dec 2019: This summer I was lucky enough to receive Gateway funding that allowed me to travel to Richmond, Virginia, USA to undertake a week of archive research for my Part II History dissertation. I am writing

20 Nov 2019: Policy on the use of personal information under the procedures for handling cases of student harassment and sexual misconduct A copy is to be provided to the Complainant, the Respondent and any wit

7 May 2019: Professor Rebecca Fortnum is Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art, responsible for the research students in the School of Arts and Humanities amongst other duties.  She has been Reader in Fin

28 Nov 2019: When you are listening to an orchestra, physics is probably the last thing on your mind. However, it does explain a lot of what you are hearing and why the viola and other larger string instruments ma

12 Dec 2019: This summer I travelled to Beijing to take part in Abridge Educamp’s summer camp programme where I spent five weeks teaching English to Chinese children at Camford Royal School. It was an incredi

19 Mar 2019: Policy on fundraising activity in College for other charitable causes Current Version Adopted by Council: January 2019 Review Date: Lent Term 2022 Committee Ownership: College Officers

3 Dec 2019: In March, I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, an annual event at which young people identifying as women are invited to partake in lectures, semi

12 Dec 2019: After having studied French at AS Level, I used my Gateway funding to spend four weeks learning French in Lyon. After doing some independent study of French, I realised I really wanted an immersive ex

5 Feb 2019: The artists ‘waived aspects of economic gain by independently gifting their works as part of an entirely novel, communal and untested enterprise’.

11 Dec 2019: The first two weeks of my trip were spent teaching English at a summer camp in Foshan, near Guangzhou. The second two weeks were teaching debate and English at a camp in central Guangzh

10 Dec 2019: In the summer after first year I spent six weeks in the Samuel Kwon Lab at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA. Having visited family in Michigan on holiday the previous summer, I contacted n

17 Dec 2019: In August 2019, I spent four weeks on a German language course at the University of Vienna, partly funded by Gateway Challenges funding and a Rosemary Murray Travel Exhibition. Having never studied

23 Jul 2019: INOTA CHETA. Co-founder of the non-profit She Entrepreneur, Inota promotes female economic empowerment. ... Following the 2014/15 global economic slowdown, economic contraction pushed unemployment up to 33%.

13 Feb 2019: UK workplace culture stalls women’s careers say three in four women and two in five men Reports year-long study involving almost 6,000 UK employees Everyday examples of unintentionally gen

3 Dec 2019: I had travelled to Guatemala on a volunteering project last summer and knew I wanted to return to Latin America, only this time working so I could then travel more extensively around a specific countr

11 Dec 2019: This summer, I travelled to Germany and the Netherlands to learn more about the histories and cultures of these two countries. It was my first time planning a solo trip and while I enjoyed the free

22 Jul 2019: Mary Husted is a fine artist living and working in South Wales. She is a member of Butetown Artists, the Welsh Group and the Contemporary Arts Society for Wales. She has exhibited widely international

3 Sep 2019: Degrees and Honours BA, Oxon; D. Phil (Oxon); HMRIA Awards and Prizes Irish Times International Non-Fiction Book of the Year, awarded to Lovers and Strangers (2017) International PEN Hesse

20 Dec 2019: Policy on the use of personal information under the Student Complaint Procedure A copy is to be provided to the Complainant at the earliest contact and published on the College’s website.

12 Dec 2019: After a week staying with friends in Germany, on 28 July I was dropped off at a large imposing building in the Netherlands, armed with my viola and not knowing who else was going to be on th