Meet our 2024 BritishSpanish Society Scholars
- Posted by membership
- On November 28, 2024
Now in its 17th year, the society’s scholarship awards support post-graduates of British or Spanish nationality studying a wide range of academic disciplines. Our 2024 winners are studying or completing research projects across economics, music, environmental studies, history and science. The awards receive the financial backing of the charity’s principal corporate sponsors; BBVA, Canada Blanch Fundacion, Plastic Energy and Santander Universities.
We are delighted to present this year’s BritishSpanish Society Scholarship winners, all of whom are undertaking fascinating and worthwhile projects. Thank you to all our corporate sponsors and congratulations to all our award-winners!
Medicine & Sciences
Álvaro Doblado Onieva
University of Málaga – University Kent
PhD in Science
‘Environmental water detection and/or decontamination of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and heavy metals, Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC)’
Project supported by Plastic Energy
Álvaro tells us: ‘The proposed project aims to develop synthetic methods to produce tetrapyrrolic supramolecular systems and explore their applications for sensing and extraction of pharmaceutical contaminants including illicit drugs waste in environmental water. The project will involve creating new molecules and testing their ability to bind and remove contaminants from water samples. Colorimetric Supramolecular hosts will offer an alternative easy route to check pharmaceutical and illicit drugs contamination of water sources as compared to conventional time consuming Mass spec-based methodologies. These hosts could be easily fabricated into devices leading to commercialisation with the help of industry.’
Cristina Rodríguez-Osorio Puigdueta
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
MRes in Brain Sciences
‘Understanding the developmental programming of stress- regulating neurons’
Project supported by Santander Universities
This project is an ambitious genetic approach aimed at unravelling the mechanisms how early life stress impacts the nervous system development and functioning in an age and sex-dependent manner across various life stages, particularly focusing on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. This axis is regulated by corticotrophin-releasing hormone neurons (CRHNs), which are the central focus of this research. By tissue-labeling and single-cell genetics analyses on brain sections from psychological and psychosocial stressed mice, this research will identify gene expression patterns of CRHNs, which may elucidate the link between childhood adversities and adult mental disorders.
Social Sciences
Luke Lanskey
Barcelona School of Economics
Master’s Degree in Economics and Finance
‘A comparative study of the role of demographic change on the public finances of the UK and Spain.’
Project supported by BBVA
Luke says: ‘My project aims to provide a comparative analysis of the impact of demographic change on government debt in the UK and Spain over the past 30 years using panel econometric techniques. Specifically, focusing on how demographic change impacts the growth-corrected interest rate (the relationship between economic growth and long-term interest rates), which is a key determinant of government debt dynamics. The project seeks to draw conclusions around the consequences of the ageing populations of both Spain and the UK on their public debt levels in the future.’
Carmen Villa
University of Warwick
PhD in Economics
‘Public policy and youth development’
Project supported by The BritishSpanish Society.
Carmen is an applied microeconomist at the University of Warwick and a PhD scholar at the Institute for Fiscal studies. Her project “Public Policies and Youth Development” evaluates the effect of several policies implemented in the UK, or in Spain on a range of outcomes, spanning crime, health, and youth development. To that end, she employs new datasets, causal inference techniques, and collaborates with several institutions in the UK and in Spain. Her objective is to contribute to better public policy making in the two countries, and beyond.
Arts
Lidia Moscoso Bernal
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
MMus – Performance (Orchestral Artistry Oboe)
Project supported by the Valencia headquartered cultural foundation Fundación Cañada Blanch
Lidia is currently a student of Gordon Hunt, Alison Teale and Steven Hudson. As she completes her bachelor’s degree with honors at the Guildhall, she has been accepted by this same institution into the Orchestral Artistry Master’s degree. She is dedicated to making classical music accessible to children from a young age and is currently developing a programme to lead workshops in schools. Most recently, she has completed a residency in IES Ramiro de Maeztu and GYA Taunton with The Nuada Quintet in which they have shared their passion for chamber music.
Humanities
Elliott Jordan
University of Oxford
Doctorate in History
‘Martial Culture and Military Service in Spanish and English Armies, c.1511-1604’
Project supported by Santander Universities
Elliot says: ‘This doctorate is a study of military culture in sixteenth century armies and investigates and compares the writings of contemporary Spanish and English soldiers. The period saw massive geopolitical, military, religious and cultural change across Europe and beyond, and transnational comparison illuminates how the Renaissance soldiery of Habsburg Spain and Tudor England reacted to, and participated in, this revolutionary period. The central concept is investigating what constituted the ‘perfect Captain’ in Spanish and English military thought, but other important themes include the decline of chivalry, new religious and disciplinary concepts, the self-promotion of ambitious warriors, and martial masculinity.’
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