PhD student wins PGWT & research trip award
Posted on 20 June 2014
Laura Louise Nicklin is a PhD student in the Department of Education, University of York, and is a student representative for the Research Centre for Social Sciences. Her research is considering specifically Shakespeare-focussed methods of juvenile criminal rehabilitation, which currently run in several states in the USA. Laura has successfully been awarded a highly competitive Santander International Connections Gold award of £5000, funding a research trip to these existing programmes in the USA for research. Her research will look at the implementation, content and success of such programmes. Laura received several invitations from such programmes to do this work and now with the funding obtained from Santander she is able to accept this unique opportunity.
The Santander International Connections Awards are highly competitive travel grants offered by Santander to the University of York to support staff and students in their personal progression related to their academic studies and/or their personal career ambitions. She will be travelling to the USA in April 2015 for at least one month and she will be visiting all three of the existing programmes, as well as visiting several universities in America to share knowledge and make connections between these universities and The University of York.
Laura would like to thank Santander and the Department of Education at the University of York for their continuing support.