Future 50 PhD Studentship
Date Awarded: Fall 2023-2027
Amount: Fully funded tuition coverage, stipend, and training & development bursary
The University of Leicester offered 50 funded PhD scholarships, known as the “Future 50,” for fall 2023 entry. This initiative built on a previous £9m investment in 100 new researchers and represented an additional £5.5m to support innovative research across the university’s three Colleges and five interdisciplinary Research Institutes: Digital Culture, Environmental Futures, Precision Health, Space, and Structural and Chemical Biology. Open to both domestic and international students, these scholarships aimed to foster a diverse cohort of researchers to advance Leicester’s reputation for world-leading research.
Steve Simmons Bursary winner
Date Awarded: Fall 2024
Amount: £3000
The Steve Simons Bursary provides £3,000 in fieldwork funding to a PhD student at the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies for research on visitor engagement or museum design. Founded in memory of Steve Simons, a pioneer in interpretive exhibition design, the award honors his legacy of innovation, storytelling, and visitor-centered approaches. The bursary, funded by Event Communications, prioritizes innovative, well-designed, and deliverable research projects.
2022 Geoff Egan Prize winner
Finds Research Group
“The award is made to the author of the best MA or MSc dissertation undertaken in a given year, recognising an individual’s talent and extraordinary potential in the field of finds research.”
Date Awarded:
November 2022
In the course of my Master’s studies at Durham, I found my passion for finds research while producing my artefact study, “Artefact Discussion for ‘Elvet Bridge 4027’, a Late-Medieval ‘Lyre-Shaped’ Buckle from the Durham River Wear Assemblage”. The research examines a previously unidentified object recovered from the River Wear in Durham, England. I utilised comparative analysis and non-invasive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis to identify the object, its’ materials, and relative date of manufacture. A crux of this research arises when I dive deep into the widely accepted dating for this typology of buckle. I discovered that the brass effigies from which a 1390-1420 date for finds of similar morphology have been based, do not in fact illustrate a ‘lyre-shaped’ buckle on the depicted deceased, but instead, only show a ‘lyre-shaped’ strap end and/or a square-shaped buckle. My research challenges the previously held beliefs about the dating of this typology of buckle. This research further examines the significance of the decorative elements present on the buckle, analysing it in the context of early 15th-century English society and possibilities of who the object may have belonged to are also discussed. This work has been published in the Durham Archaeological Journal.
Open Access of the publication here
TEFL Certified- 120 Hour Premier TEFL Course
Date Awarded: December 2020
Certification to teach English as a foreign language. Aquired through TEFL Org, part of TEFL Scotland Ltd. Accredited by the British Accreditation Council (BAC).
Course curriculum: 50-hr TEFL, 30-hr Grammar & Language Awareness, 20-hr Video and Observation, 10-hr Telephone Teaching and 10-hr Teaching Large Classes courses
Apple Certified Trainer (ACT)
Date Awarded: August 2016
The Apple Certified Trainer (ACT) program certifies industry professionals to deliver the Apple curriculum across a range of products.The goal of the ACT program is to ensure the quality, consistency and accessibility of Apple training worldwide. Candidates are qualified in technical proficiency and instructional skills by attending a Train-the-Trainer (T3) class and passing an ACT certification exam.
Apple Certified Portable Technician (ACPT)
Date Awarded: June 2014
This certification is for the diagnostics of all Apple mobile devices, e.g: iPads and iPhones. This certification is required to perform software repairs as an Apple Mobile Technician
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