Student Stories
Grey College Trust Awards 2016-17
Brandon Fletcher
-James: Visiting religious
Icons in Poland
“I would like to extend thanks
to Grey college for awarding me
the Grey college trust bursary to
support my academic endeav-
ours. The award supported my
travel expenses around Poland -
visiting Częstochowa where I was
able to obtain primary research
regarding the famous Christian
icon the black Madonna- a object
of Catholic orthodox worship
shrouded in theological and
cultural mystery. I also conducted
interviews with pilgrims and local
tourists which will aid me greatly
in my dissertation. The remaining
funds also supported my sojourn
to the west of Poznan in Swie-
bodzin via train where I was able
to see Christ the King- a colossal
statue depicting the triumphant
Christ the regal divine. It was also
possible to take some photo-
graphs which I will include in the
final draft of my thesis as visual
aids of examples of contemporary
Christian iconography.”
Hugo Briggs: DUCK ex-
pedition to Kilimnajaro
Hugo Briggs was one of the lead-
ers on this expedition on which a
new nursery was built. He says:
“I am pleased to report that the
DUCK expedition to Kilimanjaro
has successfully conquered the
world’s highest free standing
mountain, and raised £13,000 for
the charity Coco in the process.
We are extremely proud of both
the new nursery near Moshi,
Tanzania we have funded with our
donations, and of our physical
achievements.”
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Tejaswini Krishnaprasad
Pejathaya – European
Debating Championships
“In what was an exciting and chal-
lenging week filled with debates
on issues such as how developing
countries should interact with the
WTO, social media trends, women
in STEM, ethics in medicine pro-
duction, modernising warfare tac-
tics and more, Durham B finished
in the Top 50 teams in Europe at
the European Universities Debat-
ing Championships 2017. It was
one of the best experiences of my
life and I’m so grateful to have
had that opportunity.”