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Born in Sydney, Jaya Savige is an award-winning poet and critic and is currently the Poetry Editor for The Australian newspaper. From 2013-2021 he was Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing at the New College of the Humanities in London, where he founded the Creative Writing degree. He read for his PhD on James Joyce at Christ’s College, Cambridge, on a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridge Trust (2009-13). Savige's first collection of poetry, Latecomers (UQP 2005), won the NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was highly commended for the Dame Mary Gilmore Prize and was shortlisted for several other awards. His second volume, Surface to Air (UQP 2011), was shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year and the West Australian Premier’s Prize. His most recent collection, Change Machine (UQP 2020), was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and several other awards. His work appears in The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, Thirty Australian Poets, Contemporary Australian Poetry and elsewhere. He has given readings by invitation in London, New York, Berlin, Prague, Verona, Bali and throughout Australia, and he has held Australia Council writing residencies in Rome (B.R. Whiting Studio) and Paris (Cité Internationale des Arts).

Links

http://www.jayasavige.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaya-savige-62aa9915
http://www.jayasavige.blogspot.com

In my Economics PhD endeavor, I am interested in understanding the social and economic causes and consequences of the so-called medical brain drain phenomenon, with which a lot of countries, especially developing ones, are confronted. Doing so will hopefully allow us to better understand to what extent local policies targeted at limiting brain drain can prove either beneficial or detrimental and, thus, act accordingly in the future. This has always been a topic of great interest for me. In my home country of Romania, medical brain drain has long been a key issue of political and intellectual debate, particularly since the country's ascension to the European Union in 2007. In the future, using the knowledge and expertise that I will develop in my doctoral studies, I wish to take initiative in this domain and hopefully make a difference for the better!It is a great honor to join the prestigious Gates Cambridge community of scholars. Having already pursued a Master's Degree in Cambridge, I have become accustomed with the great energy and passion with which academics here conduct their research. I am extremely grateful to be able to continue this journey!

Previous Education

University of Amsterdam
University of Cambridge

I conducted the field-work for my PhD thesis in Tropical Ecology in Panama, Central America, and was awarded two postdoctoral fellowships to continue my work on carbon cycling in tropical forest for another 4 years. I then moved to CEH Wallingford, to train in molecular methods in microbial soil ecology to further investigate soil processes. In 2012, I started my current post as Lecturer in Environmental Sciences at the Open University and I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for a 5-year research project on forest carbon dynamics under climate change.

Currently completing my MBA at the Wharton School at the University of Pennyslvania

After having studied 2 1/2 years in Germany and 2 1/2 years in France, I am excited about the upcoming time in England. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship will allow me to study in one of the world's most famous physics departments. Being part of the Gates Scholars community will give me the possibility to meet interesting and diverse people from all around the world.

I'm at Cambridge to do an Mphil in Culture and Criticism in the English Department having spent the past two years working for a magazine in Washington, DC.

Managing Director at Honeypot.io

I am so honored to be pursuing my PhD in chemical engineering at Cambridge! I will be studying biopharmaceutical development and drug delivery in the lab of Dr. Nigel Slater. Although therapeutic development is necessary globally, the world is in desperate need of affordable, optimized therapies and diagnostics for resource-limited environments. Millions of people do not have access to the electricity and refrigeration required for many current medical treatments. I hope to use my experience in polymeric drug delivery from The University of Texas, microfluidic diagnostics from U.C. Berkeley, vaccine commercialization from Merck Sharp and Dohme, and antibody purification development from Genentech to support me in my graduate studies. I plan on using the skills I acquire at Cambridge in a future career developing biotechnology-based solutions to world health problems.

Previous Education

University of Texas Austin BSc Chemical Engineering 2013

Romance languages constitute a rich area of linguistic variation yet to be properly explored. The superficial similarities among varieties and the inheritance of a long-standing prescriptive tradition have contributed to keep the highly valuable internal variation of this family in the shade. The aim of my research is to explore one of the many puzzles of Romance, that is verb-placement, and try to provide a non-stipulative account for this phenomenon. The first step of my work will thus include the collection of as many data as possible, across a selection of both standard and non-standard varieties, in the strong belief that the theory must always be driven by data. Hopefully, my reasearch will demonstrate the importance of looking at intra-Romance variation in detail, not only to achieve a more complete descriptive adequacy, but also because this may provide a challenge for those theoretical approaches whose adequacy crucially relies on the apparent homogeneity of this family.

Neuroimaging is a topic I first came across during introductory courses as an undergrad in psychology, and the fascination with it remained in the back of my head for a long time. However, only during my Master’s degree in systems neuroscience I realized that it could be not just a research method, but a research subject of its own. Luckily, I could conduct the research for my Master’s thesis at the Laboratoire de recherche en neuroimagerie in Lausanne, where imaging neuroscientists shared their expertise and love for MRI with me. During my PhD in Clinical Neurosciences with Dr. Tim Rittman I will use multimodal MRI, post-mortem data and machine learning techniques to examine how tau pathology (a hallmark of various neurodegenerative diseases) progresses in the brain. Apart from science, I care about science communication and mental health advocacy. Therefore I’m a board member of two nonprofit organisations—the German Brain Bee (a neuroscience competition and outreach programme for highschool students) and Blaupause Gesundheit (an organisation for mental health awareness/support for health professionals). I’m honored to be joining this community and hope I can contribute to it as well as meet wonderful like-minded people.

Previous Education

Philipps-Universität Marburg Systems Neuroscience 2022
Bayerische-Julius-Maximillians-Universitat Wurzber Psychology 2019
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen Economics 2015

Links

https://www.rittman.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatjana-schmidt-793a78b0

I am currently conducting research in the Institute of Criminology for my PhD. Specifically, I am investigating the causes of wrongful convictions. My current project involves a quantitative examination of the causes of wrongful convictions in a sample of cases investigated by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, a public body tasked with overseeing claims of miscarriages of justice in the UK. After completion of my PhD, I hope to continue empirically evaluating legal practices in order to promote more effective criminal justice law and policy reform.

Previous Education

University of Konstanz
École Normale Supérieure de Paris
University of Cambridge

With the generous support of the Gates Cambridge Trust, I am starting my PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science. My doctoral research concentrates on mid-twentieth-century wet brain collections and material cultures in neurosciences, psychiatry, and neurology, illustrating the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of brain-related research; the transnational context of locally produced knowledge; and the consequences of spatial arrangements of basic research, clinical practice, and industry-led studies. It aims to provide a desperately needed historical perspective for mid-twentieth-century medical collections in neuropathology, many of which have been dissolved, archived as museum collections, or re-investigated with contemporary methods in the last two decades.