Scholars’ Reception in Observatory Tower

Green Templeton was pleased to bring together current scholarship holders and key supporters for a Scholars’ Reception in the Observatory Tower Room on Thursday 28 October.

Green Templeton College Principal Sir Michael Dixon welcomed guests by thanking the donors, saying ‘scholarship and bursary funding is an important part of the financial support the college can provide to our students. It removes financial burden, provides support, and allows students to call Green Templeton their home when circumstances might otherwise prevent them.’

Scholar Shawna-Kaye Tucker (DPhil Education, 2019) whose work focuses on literacy development in creole contexts, specifically in Jamaica, spoke passionately about what her scholarship meant personally.

Shawna-Kaye told donors in attendance: ‘Your funding meant that I was not disqualified because of where I came from or how much I had… This scholarship has given me an opportunity of doing important work to help my country and similar nations.’

‘Thank you so much for making such a difference in our lives and in the many lives that are impacted by our research today and in the years to come.’

The reception, the first of its kind in recent times, assembled nearly twenty current Green Templeton scholars and a dozen donors. The scholars included students focusing on infectious diseases, race and ethnic disparities, computation-based politics research, neurosciences, punishment in times of conflict, governance of the Blue Economy, patient-led research, undertaking the Oxford MBA and recipients of Graduate Entry Medicine bursaries.