David Courtney has been awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to enable him to travel out of the UK for a period of up to 8 weeks, to a laboratory of his choosing, to learn techniques that will further his PhD studies within Ulster.
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust was established after Sir Winston Churchill’s death in 1965 as a living memorial to benefit future generations of British people.
Each year over 100 British citizens are awarded Fellowships for a wide range of projects. Their purpose is to widen an individual’s experience, to help growth in confidence, knowledge, authority and ambition and to bring benefit to others in the UK through sharing the results of the experience.
A Fellow is fully funded to travel overseas for between 4-8 weeks. Past award winners include nurses, artists, scientists, engineers, farmers, conservationists, carers, craft workers, artisans, members of the emergency services, sportsmen and women and young people.
This year there were 1,182 applicants of which 255 were interviewed in London. David was one of 137 applicants out of the 1182 who applied to be awarded a fellowship and the Vision Science Research Group are extremely proud of David.