In 2019 Katie O’Brien won a Santander PhD Mobility Award to travel to South Africa to meet with the collaborators in her research project, investigating the relationship between sleep and HIV. Collaborators were based at both the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (WITS) and the University of Cape Town (UCT). As I work remotely from […]
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The Surrey-Santander PhD Mobility Awards aim to provide PhD Students the opportunity to visit a university overseas for up to six months to support and expand upon their research. Awards of up to £2,000 are available for visits to universities and institutions overseas. In 2020 Psychology PhD Candidate, Ayan Ahmed, received one such award to […]
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In this blog, Dr Dan Horton (Lecturer in Veterinary Virology, School Research Director and Programme Leader for MSc Vet Microbiology) writes about his visit to Columbia University, supported by Santander Universities UK Zoonotic and epizootic viruses continue to threaten both public health, and economic stability; however, our ability to predict and mitigate these risks remains limited. […]
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From July 2nd 2017 till July 18th 2017 I was a summer student at Aarhus Summer School in Denmark studying Creativity and Innovation. Admittedly I was incredibly nervous prior to this experience but I can honestly say it was amazing and more rewarding than I ever could have imagined. The first day was spent becoming familiar with […]
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The Brazilian Business & Culture Summer School is an intensive programme hosted by USP – a leading institution in Latin America – in their Ribeirão Preto campus, 300km from the metropolis of São Paulo. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend this well organised programme over the summer along with other students from Surrey and […]
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In 2016, myself and my coursemate Hayley received a scholarship from Santander to visit the veterinary faculty of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. At first, I was quite apprehensive about travelling without my family to a hemisphere I had never visited to a country I knew very little about. However, I decided that this […]
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