Case studies

Jeremiah Schwarz
PhD in History

Former naval officer Jeremiah Schwarz is studying US foreign policy.

Bill Schmidt
PhD in Criminology

Bill Schmidt is studying the causes of wrongful convictions in the UK and Northern Ireland.

Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann
PhD in History

Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann is researching the history of the transition from apartheid in South Africa.

Suzanne Pilaar Birch
PhD in Archaeology

Suzanne Pilaar Birch is researching adaptation to extreme climate change thousands of years ago.

Michael Marin
LLM Law

Michael Marin is researching the inequalities in the financial system.

Nadja Tschentscher
PhD in Biology

Nadja is investigating why some clever people are bad at maths.

Toby Norman
PhD in Management Studies

Toby is applying management science to public health campaigns.

Luning Sun
PhD in Social and Developmental Psychology

Luning Sun is doing research into memory function tests.

Niraj Lal
PhD in Physics

Nicole Person-Rennell
MPhil in Public Health

Nicole Person-Rennell combines her academic studies with professional dancing.

Darinee Alagirisamy
MPhil in Modern South-Asian Studies

Darinee Alagirisamy will study how political developments in India ultimately shaped Tamil identity in Malaysia.

Tovah Ackerman
MPhil in Criminology

Tovah Ackerman plans to study how sensationalised stories about crime affect sentencing policy.

Jonathan Diaz
PhD Astronomy

Jonathan Diaz is researching the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.

Guilhem Chalancon
PhD in Biological Science

Guilhem Chalancon will be studying the role that variability of gene expression plays in cell development.

Annalijn Conklin
PhD in Medical Science

Annalijn Conklin will study the links between lifestyle choices and the environment.

Anne Leone
PhD in Italian

Anne Leone has been researching the cultural significance of blood in the Middle Ages.

Max Gwiazda
PhD in History & Philosophy of Architecture

Max Gwiazda is researching conflict in cities, focusing on Jerusalem.

Halliki Voolma
PhD in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies

Halliki Voolma is researching domestic violence and women of insecure immigration status.

Clara Devlieger
MRes in Social Anthropology

Clara Devlieger will be studying disabled people in the Congo region.

Douglas Guilfoyle
PhD in Legal Studies

Douglas Guilfoyle has become an expert on legal issues surrounding piracy.

Linda Gichuyia
MPhil in Architectural Design

Linda Gichuyia is interested in architecture design and the environment.

Jamila Haider
MPhil in Geographical Research

Jamila Haider is researching the impact of violence on conservation strategies.

Yang Hu
PhD in sociology

Scholar-elect Yang Hu will start his PhD on divorce and social status in China in 2011.

Amy Zhang
MPhil Advanced Computer Science

Amy Zhang hopes to combine computer studies and tennis when she starts at Cambridge in October.

Kevin Grove
PhD in Divinity

Kevin Grove will be researching forgiveness and forgetting.