Gray-Milne Travel Bursary

The Gray-Milne travel bursary provides funding of up to a value of £500 to support geophysics-related work and travel.

Previous winners of the bursary are listed below, including a small report detailing what the award was used for.

“A Gray-Milne bursary funded visit was the most impactful activity during my PhD. I successfully
finished my PhD this summer and published three research articles based on the work conducted during my visit”

“I also gave my first conference talk. I received lots of questions and valuable feedback that will help me improve my work”

“This research trip advanced my PhD studies and network for which I am very thankful for”

“Gray-Milne bursary funded a visit that was key to advance both my PhD project and my skills as a researcher”

2025

Lara Boudinot (University of Oxford) – travel costs to conduct fieldwork in Kenya

Sodiq Solagbade Oguntade (Queen’s University Belfast) – attend, and present work at the World Geothermal Congress 2026

Rosie Lewis (University of Leeds) – travel costs for fieldwork and outreach in Montserrat

Thomas O’Hara (University of Cambridge) – travel costs for fieldwork in Iceland

Chengdong Chen (University of Southampton) – research visit to PETRONAS, Malaysia

2024

Tesfahiwet Yemane Abraha (University of Oxford) – attend, and present work at the EGU 2025 meeting

Simon Orrego (University of Bristol) – attend, and present work at the EGU 2025 meeting

Robyn Pelling (University of Bradford) – travel costs to undertake training

Conor Rutland (University of East Anglia) – attend, and present work at the EGU 2025 meeting

Pengzhe Zhou (Imperial College London) – attend, and present work at the AGU 2024 Fall meeting

2023

Chia-Yu Tien (University of Cambridge) – attend, and present work at the AGU 2023 Fall meeting

Sophia Baker (University of Aberdeen) – attend, and present work at the AGU 2023 Fall meeting

Banusha Kugabalan (Imperial College London) – attend, and present work at the Castle 2024 meeting

Jenn Marsh (Imperial College London) – fieldwork to collect rock samples

Philippa Slay (University Of Cambridge) – attend, and present work at the AGU 2023 Fall meeting

2022

Joshua Anthony (University College London) – conduct fieldwork to explore the advantages and limitations of using different two-dimensional geophysical surveying techniques to image clay-dominated palaeochannels on a largely reclaimed coastal floodplain

Liang Qi (Imperial College London) – conduct fieldwork in Cyprus, collecting palaeomagnetic samples and making ground-based magnetic surveys

Ziqi Ma (University College London) – I attended, and presented a poster at the 2023 annual European Geosciences Union meeting

Duncan Williams (University of Bournemouth) – conduct fieldwork in Belgium, a geophysical survey at the location of the Battle of Waterloo

2021

Lou Parkes (University of Edinburgh) – Seismic Array fieldwork on Maer Down Cliff, Bude

Rebecca Colquhoun (University of Oxford) – attend the Earthquakes Autumn School on Nucleation, Triggering and Relationships with Aseismic Processes

Alice Turner (University of Edinburgh) – to attend the Cargese Earthquakes school

Maximilian Lowe (British Antarctic Survey and the University of Edinburgh) – research visit to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität based in Kiel, northern Germany

Jack Turney (Imperial College London) – visit the Institute for Rock Magnetism in Minneapolis, USA, to collect vital data to help constrain magnetic characteristics at the base of oil columns

Fei Liu (University of Leeds) – to attend the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, which was held in Bonn, Germany

Claire Orlov (University of Leeds) – to undertake fieldwork in Iceland

Matteo Desiderio (University College London) – a research visit to the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics group (GFD) at ETH, Zurich

2020

William Harcourt (University of St Andrews) – conduct Millimetre-wave Radar Monitoring of Snow in Scotland (MRaMSS)

Harry Linang (University of Cambridge) – to service seismic stations in Sarawak, Borneo