The second CSC workshop of the academic year saw Scholars come together on 30 June 2016 at the University of Glasgow to learn about entrepreneurship. Specifically aimed at improving Scholars’ potential to contribute to the needs of their home country, the workshop...
Hannah Openshaw
Farewell to departing Scholars
This year’s CSC Farewell Event took place on 7 July 2016, and was attended by 150 Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows from 25 countries, studying or working around the UK. Kindly hosted by the High Commission of Canada at Canada House in London, the event was a...
2016 entrants – Taylor & Francis Commonwealth Scholar Best Journal Article Prize
2016 winner Olivia Kate Faull (2012 Commonwealth Scholar from New Zealand, DPhil Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford) Conditioned respiratory threat in the subdivisions of the human periaqueductal gray, eLife (2016) 2016 entrants Iddriss Ibn Abdul-Rahman...
Olivia Faull wins 2016 Best Journal Article Prize
The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom (CSC) and Taylor & Francis Group are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2016 Taylor & Francis Commonwealth Scholar Best Journal Article Prize is Dr Olivia Faull, for her article...
Evaluation profile: Kevin James
Professor Kevin James was a Commonwealth PhD Scholar at the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Economic and Social History from 1997-2000. Since completing his PhD, he has pursued an academic career at the University of Guelph, Canada; his primary research...
Educating the people, engaging the nations
The Wales and Northern Ireland and South West Regional Networks held a seminar on 8 April 2016 at Cardiff University titled ‘Educating the people, engaging the nations’. Scholars came together with CSC staff at the seminar to discuss the following key questions: How...
Successes and complexities: the outcomes of UK Commonwealth Scholarships 1960-2012
Since 2012, the CSC has been conducting a cycle of evaluation surveys designed to generate insight into the experiences, achievements, and difficulties of our alumni. By mid-2015, we had sent a survey to 100% of the members of our alumni network for whom we had...
Commonwealth Scholars Radio 2016
Connect and communicate: academic engagement with modern media 44 Commonwealth Master’s Scholars attended the Connect and Communicate workshop held at the historic and scenic Cumberland Lodge in March 2016. The workshop considered the evolving channels for...
Scholars celebrate Commonwealth Day
Commonwealth Scholars were involved in three major events held last week to mark Commonwealth Day on 14 March. The theme for this year was ‘An inclusive Commonwealth’. Scholars studying in the field of education attended the Annual Commonwealth Day Westminster Seminar...
Evaluation profile: Sultana Khanum
Dr Sultana Khanum was a Commonwealth PhD Scholar at the University of Keele between 1990 and 1994, and she returned to the UK as a Commonwealth Academic Fellow at the University of Manchester for six months in 2003. She has been a Professor of Sociology at the...