Since 2015, I have been passionate about ending poverty in the UK. I began my journey as a campaigner against poverty in my local area with Poverty Ends Now, a young person lead group ran by Children North East. Since then, I have represented the UK in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and other positions of influence with poverty as my main focus point. My Laidlaw Scholarship research project is all about the relationship between language, meaning and poverty. By understanding and changing unhelpful public discourse about poverty, we can start to shift power.

I am an undergraduate at Durham University studying Theology and Religion. I have also studied Biblical Greek and German in Durham and abroad (Bonn University), and am interested in the intersection between theology and linguistics.

I'm a third year studying History & Hispanic Studies (Spanish & Catalan) at Durham. My Laidlaw project is about the impact of informal British empire in Uruguay, where I spent part of my year abroad working in the National Historic Museum. In my spare time at university, I'm part of Durham's debating team and I'm a student ambassador for the Matariki Global Citizenship Programme.

Graduate in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from Durham University. Have conducted research on climate security in the Israeli-Palestinian context. Experience in public speaking in an academic context, journalism, and journalistic editing.

Hi lovely person! I'm Laura and I'm currently completing a ESRC funded PhD at the University of Durham on Victim-Survivor identity using arts-based methods for people with lived experiences of sexual assault. If you use arts-based research methods, research victim-survivor identity or violence and abuse in general I'd love to hear from you :) 

PhD researcher working with Siemens Gamesa and The University of Sheffield to design novel generators for offshore wind turbines. Completed an MEng degree in New and Renewable Energy Engineering and have 4 years experience designing, building, and racing solar powered electric vehicles. Passionate about tackling climate change with renewable energy and other sustainable technology.

Hello! I research illiberal democracy: when democratic process no longer protects our rights and freedoms. I use the political threshold concept to qualitatively assess the points at which our social power is lost; I conducted unstructured interviews in Israel and Palestine in summer 2019 to investigate this.  I am driven to impact sustainability through political reform, strategy consulting, and creating new legal demands that will shift environmental demands across countries.  I am a social mobility advocate: always seeking to narrow the disparity between state and private school education.

BA Sociology and Anthropology | MSc Public Health  Especially interested in health inequality, gender studies, and maternal health, and health systems analysis.  My Laidlaw research project explored the everyday life experiences of 'fat' women in England and the impact of stigma, body privilege and gender roles on their experiences in public spaces. 

Hello, Laidlaw community. I am a Durham University BA graduate in Anthropology and Archaeology. I was interested in understanding colonial imperialism in the post-socialist space. As an anthropologist I decided to research in particular Russian and Soviet practices of social governance of non-Russian people, therefore I explored ethnographically the various understandings of the ethnic identity of the contemporary Cossacks.

I am currently studying Geography BSc at Durham University, specialising in terrestrial morphological processes, in particular, the effect of land-use change on coastal erosion and its socioeconomic impacts. Have got a job lined in up in the environmental consulting sector, focused on Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) for large infrastructure projects such as High Speed 2 and the Heathrow Expansion.