Fellows Updates

• A new forensic drama, The Body Farm, starts on BBC1 & BBC1 HD on September 13th at 9pm. Andy Hart is the forensic advisor for the series. In 2005 he travelled to the USA and Canada to study the use of forensic entomology in fighting crime (PDF Report).
• Congratulations to Dr. Fiona Wood on achieving her Doctorate at the University of Dundee in children's outdoor education! Fiona says the research she undertook in Australia last year, funded by the Trust (PDF Report) has helped in her career progression.
• In 2005 Mark Viner investigated the role and development of forensic radiography (PDF report) in South Africa, Argentina and the USA. As a result of the contacts that he made during his study, he was asked to co-author the second edition of the standard text on the subject: Brogdon's Forensic Radiology. This second edition was published earlier in the year and is co-edited by Michael Thali (Switzerland), Gil Brogdon (USA) and Mark Viner.

In the news

• Jim Smith has been interviewed in the Bromley Times about his experiences in the USA, where he went to study the use of music therapy in addiction. He now plans to start his own project to help addicts in the music industry.
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has written an article in The Independent exploring perceptions of the Muslim community 10 years after 9/11. She has been challenging some contemporary views on the Muslim world, bringing to the surface experiences and stories of understanding and collaboration between England and the Middle East. This is also the subject of her Fellowship and she will be travelling to the Middle East next year to further her research.

 

• Lesley Gale has shared with us an amazing video of her team, Brit Chicks at the recent UK National Skydiving competition. You can also follow her via her Big Way Record Facebook page .
• His research in Slovenia funded by the Trust has helped Norman Haddow (report in PDF) work on the restoration project in Glen Lyon (Scotland). He documented the work on his blog about dry stone walling. You can also follow his Dry Stone Walling Facebook page .
• We've just heard that Sam Youd, who's Head Gardener at Tatton Park, won a Gold Medal for his garden design at this year's RHS Tatton Park Flower Show . Sam travelled to Japan and China to research Japanese gardens in 1997. Tatton Park has one of the finest examples of a Japanese garden , built 100 years ago by Alan de Tatton, 3rd Baron Egerton of Tatton, following his visit to the 1910 Anglo-Japanese exhibition in London.
• Martin Everard has been developing a website to showcase the botanical illustrations of his mother, Barbara Everard. He is also making some of her illustrations and artwork available via Flickr. Barbara received funds from the Trust to travel to Malaysia and document various threatened species in 1976. He will be in Telscombe, Sussex on September 11th Heritage Day, an opportunity to find out more about the village and local authors and artists.
  
  
• Elizabeth Jordan has made a short video explaining how she decided to apply for a Travelling Fellowship. We have added the video to the "Benefits" section on the website.
• Many congratulations to Siân Evans who has won the craft&design Selected Silver Award in the Wood and Metal category, for 2011. Siân is one of Britain's only remaining coppersmiths and her Fellowship has already taken her to France and Greece to meet master craftsmen. She will head to India in January 2012.

A summary of articles, reports and news from Churchill Fellows:

• John Austin writes in TransportXtra about Cambridge's Busway and how his Fellowship to Australia helped him.
• Angus Mulready-Jones' report into services for prisoners' children and families is now available . He travelled to the USA and Sweden to research different approaches that can be taken to try to "break the cycle of intergenerational reoffending".
• Darren Way set up Streets of Growth, an organisation "specialising in engaging youth and young adults away from educational and career drop-out, postcode territorialism, group/gang violence, criminality, drugs, and associated behaviours leading to harm, poverty, neighbourhood dysfunction and dependency." He was interviewed a few days ago in Hackney by Reuters and said that a holistic approach on gangs is needed.
• Read about Gerard Lynch brick laying demonstrations in the Toronto Star.

Have a look at Jenny Pickerill's fascinating blog on affordable eco-homes, and join her increasing group of followers, 100 daily at the last count!