Travellers’ Tales 2024

On 26 November, the College gathered to hear short presentations from winners of various travel awards about the adventures they had taken away from Catz. With their travels taking them the globe from psychiatric hospitals in India to conferences in Birmingham to Taekwondo training camps in Barcelona, our students made good use of their grants to expand their studies and personal growth. To find out more about our travel awards, please see our Prizes & Awards page.

The speakers for 2024 were:

Cyprien Basso (MPhil Medical Anthropology, 2023)
Winner of the Patricia Knapp Travel Award
Healing Poems: Clinical Ethnography in a Psychiatric Hospital in Kerala, India

Lacey-Louise Bradley, Olivia Francis & Heqin Geng (Jurisprudence, 2023)
Winners of the Wilfrid Knapp Travel Award
Made in Milan: A Legal History

Benjamin Chan (Biomedical Sciences, 2021)
Winner of the Patricia Knapp Travel Award
Neuroscience in Birmingham: A Conference on Emerging Neuroimaging Technology

Max Choudhury (Engineering Science, 2022)
Winner of the Raymond Hodgkin Award
Bikepacking London to Amsterdam – in Swimming Trunks – to Raise Money for Movember

Isobel Connolly (Music, 2021)
Winner of the Bullock Travel Award
Exploring Music, History, & Art in the Côte d’Azur

Matt Gillet (Chemistry, 2021)
Winner of the Bullock Career Award
Old Drugs for New Bugs

Madeleine Hawley (Materials Science, 2022)
Winner of the Philip Fothergill Award
Brits fighting in Lloret de Mar! – British University Taekwondo League Spanish Training
Camp

Noam Sala Budgen (Modern Languages, 2023)
Winner of the Bullock Travel Award
Cidade da Luz: Cod, Communists and Cultural Delight

Many thanks to the speakers for a fun evening and we encourage all Catz students who are interested to apply for travel awards.