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Making your career work for you
Dr Yoanna Ariosa Morejon, Senior Research Scientist, Immunocore Yoanna undertook her Daphne Jackson Fellowship between 2016 and 2018 at the University of Oxford. Her reserach investigating cartilage and bone collagen turnover was co-funded by The Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research and the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics. Reflecting on her roles after her Fellowship, Yoanna says: …
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Changing the status quo
Professor Dani Strickland, Professor of Electrical Power Engineering, Loughborough University Dani undertook her Daphne Jackson Fellowship between 2003 and 2004 at the University of Sheffield, funded by Rolls Royce. Recently I turned 50 and together as a family, we went out to celebrate. My daughter said ‘Happy 50th Birthday to my wonderful mum who has…
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Pushing ahead
Professor Gillian Forrester, Professor of Comparative Cognition, University of Sussex Gillian undertook her Daphne Jackson Fellowship between 2004 and 2007 at the University of Sussex. Her fellowship, Multimodal Communication in Western Lowland Gorillas was sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Reflecting on her Fellowship and subsequent career, Gillian says: I have enjoyed the opportunities that…
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Beyond research
Professor Kathy Kotiadis, Professor in Operational Research, Kent Business School, University of Kent Kathy completed her Daphne Jackson Fellowship in the School of Computer Science in the area of modelling and simulation in 2016, hosted and funded by the University of Kent. As well as updating her research skills, the fellowship improved her confidence and…
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From fellow to field leader
Professor Pia Ostergaard, Professor of Human Genetics & Head of Genetics Research Centre at St George’s Medical School My Daphne Jackson Fellowship enabled me to return to scientific research and I am extremely grateful to the Trust for my fellowship and everything that has happened after it! My fellowship gave me the unique ability to…
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Daphne Jackson Trust – 2024 Wrapped
It’s been an exciting year here at the Daphne Jackson Trust. From expanding our hosts and funding partners to getting a new brand and website, we are continuing our valuable work of bringing people back to research after a career break. We celebrated our 500th Daphne Jackson Fellowship, bringing us to 500 fellows in five…
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Welcome to our new patron: Professor Jim Al-Khalili
Here at the Daphne Jackson Trust, we are delighted to welcome Professor Jim Al-Khalili as our newest patron. Jim is a multiple award-winning science communicator renowned for his public engagement around the world through writing and broadcasting. As a leading academic he’s made fundamental contributions to theoretical physics, particularly in nuclear reaction theory, quantum effects…
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Celebrating 500 fellowships in five decades
We’ve reached an important milestone at the Daphne Jackson Trust, awarding our 500th Daphne Jackson Fellowship! In 1985, Professor Daphne Jackson – the first female Professor of Physics in the UK – devised a fellowship scheme to help women who had taken a career break return to the research workforce. Daphne’s programme combined research and…
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Merry Christmas from the Daphne Jackson Trust!
We will be closed from Monday, 23rd December, 2024 until 1st January, 2025. We hope you have a very happy new year and look forward to seeing you when we reopen on 2nd January.