SSB Academics gain Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Fellowships

Members of the School of Law and Social Science and the School of Geography have received Study Abroad Fellowship Awards from The Leverhulme Trust.

The Trust, established at the wish of William Hesketh Lever, the first Viscount Leverhulme, makes awards for the support of research and education. Study Abroad Fellowships support a period overseas in a stimulating academic environment. These differ from conventional Research Fellowships in that the awards support a range of activities other than straight-forward research - for example, the exchange of ideas or the development of new lines of research and collaboration. Approximately fifteen awards are offered annually. This year Dr Oonagh Corrigan and Dr Sanzidur Rahman have both received funding to conduct research overseas.

Dr Oonagh Corrigan, Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Law and Social Science is off to Canada to study the Socio-Ethical aspects of biomedical technologies.