Travel Award Holders 2012

Members of St John's College granted Awards for travel during the Long Vacation 2012 can be seen in the list below.

Reports of these travels will be available on the College website in early November.

To get a taster of the types of adventures our Students undertake please read the exciting reports from last years Travel Awards by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.

Johnian Society Travel Exhibitions

Mr SS Allan

Community Development Projects in the Remote Central American Rainforests

Miss AA Horwood

Off the beaten track: Surveying the scenery of South China

Miss JFK Ogunseitan

Teaching English among the Zulu and Afrikaans communities of Pietermaritzburg, Durban

Ms JE Powles

Alps and Escapades of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino:  Butler Overland

Mr SFB Shaughnessy

Voodoo, religion and history in Benin

Miss JC Smith

Cambridge Tien Shan Expedition: in search of unclimbed mountains

Mr H Trivedi

Exploring the rustic landscape of China

Mr M Wan

History in the bricks --- A study of Chinese culture from the ancient architecture

Christopher Vincent Travel Exhibition

Miss CJ Crosby

An exploration of public art in Mexico and a study of Brazilian Portuguese language

Miss AM Majzoub

Research about the Arab Spring for dissertation

Mr PT McKearney

Starting an Ecological Kindergarten in Vietnam

Mr AT Winfield

Studying the differences between Western and Eastern Educational systems

Grants from the B H Farmer Fund

Mr T Benger

Investigation into the influence of social reproduction on discriminatory policing in Arizona

Miss ML Dennis-Smith

Investigating attitudes to tree-planting in Bunyoro-Kitara diocese, Uganda

Miss R Jevons

The importance of education and spousal violence in the home, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Backwaters, tigers and slums: travelling southern India in the monsoon.

Grants from the C W Brasher Fund

Mr JG Boghossian

Odyssey to Argentinian Patagonia: Volunteering and Trekking

Miss AA Horwood

Off the beaten track: Surveying the scenery of South China

Miss K Humphries

Exploring culture through language in Albania

Miss MES Sorensen

Capturing Albania on 35mm

Grants from the Frank Hollick Fund

Mr AJ Gibson

Musical Theatre Traditions in Italy

Mr A MacKeith

Florentine architecture, aesthetics and Classical heritage

Miss LI Paterson

Whistler and the East: Final Year Dissertation Research

Miss AE Reid

Florentine Art and Early Renaissance Architecture

Mr BS Sachdev

Appreciation of Italian architecture

Ms D-L Vallone

Traveling to improve knowledge of raptor ecology, education, and training

Grants from the Glyn and Ruth Daniel Fund

Mr LKW Abraham

Tour of the Historical Sites of Italy

Miss A Dougherty

Tour of the Historical Sites of Italy

Mr TC Farrelly

Sicily: A Historical, Cultural and Natural Perspective

Mr MJ Huxtable

Tour of Italy's Historical Sites

Mr JAM Lindsay

Tour of Italy's Historical Sites

Mr STJ Ryan

Sicily: A Cultural, Natural and Historical Perspective

Mr C Schmidhuber

Participation in the Neubauer Expedition to Zincirli

Mr MM Schmittfull

Sicily: A Historical, Cultural and Natural Perspective

Grants from the Hanley Fund

Miss LJ Gibson

Working with high school children to address the problem of lifestyle-related diseases

Miss Z Milner

An Insight into the Applications of Clinical Medicine in Rural Madagascar

Mr SJC Pickup

India and Nepal - teaching and learning

Miss M Teranaka

Volunteering in Tohoku and work experience at Kyorin Hospital, Tokyo

Miss J Wall

How are ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ Medicine Used in Rural and Urban India?

Miss L Zheng

Healthcare and its cultural influences - in China

Grants from the Peter Allan Travel Award

Mr M Wan

History in the bricks - A study of Chinese culture from the ancient architecture

Grants from the Robert Sloley Fund

Mr G Castangia

Stories carved in stone: landscape archaeology in Western Vancouver Island

Mr CRC Draper

To the Fringes of Mesopotamia: Archaeology at Risk

Mrs SE Pilaar

Along the Coast: Early Evidence for the Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula and its Implications for the Spread of Agriculture in Europe

Mr C Schmidhuber

Participation in the Neubauer Expedition to Zincirli

Grants from the Roberts Fund

Miss CJ Crosby

An exploration of public art in Mexico and a study of Brazilian Portuguese language

Miss K Humphries

Exploring culture through language in Albania

Ms JE Powles

Alps and Escapades of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino: Butler Overland

Mr R Rose

In Search of the Callahuaya

Grants from the Roger Parsons Fund

Mr JB Ataman

Cultural Crossroads of the World: A Tour of the Levant

Miss EH Barman

Music and Culture in the Netherlands

Mr JW Bartholomew

Istanbul: At The Crossroads

Miss V Buchholz

Changing Gender and Youth Identities in post-Soviet Yugoslavia

Miss I-C Dedoussi

Research visit to the German Aerospace Centre

Mr JW d’Souza

Cambridge to Zagreb: The Bicycle Diaries

Mr AD Garton

Studying through Inter-faith and Intra-faith Dialogue

Mr FCJ Hamilton

Istanbul - at the crossroads

Ms A Joshi

From the Pergamon to Pergolesi: Music and Architecture in Berlin

Ms J Lipkowitz

Political Issues of Repatriation of Antiquities Visualized: A Comparative Case Study of the Parthenon Gallery in the New Acropolis Museum at Athens and the Installation of the Euphronios Krater in the Villa Giulia at Rome

Mr P O’Grady

Byron, Gibran and Orientalism in Literature

Miss CA Rush

Youth Music Theatre UK - Project Cuba (based in Plymouth)

Mr AI Whyte

The legacy of the Knights Hospitaller in Contemporary Maltese Healthcare

Grants from the Scullard Fund

Miss AE Carr

Christianity in Morocco

Miss CM Fragoso

Florence to Naples: The Renaissance and Baroque compared with Early Modernism and the Present

Miss F Osborn

Israel - the development of early Christianity

Miss RC Thomas

Tour of Italy's Historical Sites

Miss LJ Wrapson

Chrysography on the icons of St Catherine's, Sinai

Grants from Ulysses Travel Fund

Mr JG Boghossian

Odyssey to Argentinian Patagonia: Volunteering and Trekking

Mr RGC Green

An Indian Himalayan Adventure: Ladakh and Kashmir

Grants from Wilberforce and Clarkson (Williams) Travel Fund

Miss JFK Ogunseitan

Teaching English among the Zulu and Afrikaans communities of Pietermaritzburg, Durban