The Chevening community extends to all corners of the globe. Here is the latest news on what is going on in the Chevening network, and blogs from members of our community.
Two new staff recently joined our alumni team at the Secretariat, expanding the team to three to reflect a growing network of former scholars and fellows. Tell us a bit about what the alumni team does. The alumni team features Aba Quartey (Alumni Relations Manager), Jo Lloyd (Alumni Officer), and Billie Downer (Alumni Assistant). We […]
Conferences, workshops, and even a football game—this is the current events schedule of the Chevening-Russia Alumni Association. After a period of slow activity, Russian Chevening Fellows have opened a new page in the Association’s history. Indeed a significant role, in that British Embassy Moscow has found an efficient balance of support, partnership, and freedom in their cooperation […]
12 Chevening Alumni have been selected to do placements in different departments of the BBC World Service, a highly respected British institution, over a period of four months from September. The selected scholars will complete the BBC World Service Group Professional Placement Programme at the end of their master’s course as part of Chevening’s partnership […]
Whoever said that it’s lonely for women at the top has obviously not heard of Turks and Caicos Islands. In the highest office of its local government sits an eccentric leader. The first female premier, Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, is a beacon in a world where most top public officials are men; a dichotomous member of the ‘boys club’ that is […]
You’ve heard of digital diplomacy, commercial diplomacy, even panda diplomacy. How about #fićadiplomacy? While discussing how to better promote Chevening during the next application cycle, we thought of emphasising the longevity of diplomatic relations between the UK and Serbia (this year we mark the 180th anniversary). It would be perfect if we somehow married the […]
In September 2015, I temporarily left my job at Eurothink to begin my master’s degree in Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex. I have been working for Eurothink since 2010 and since 2013, I have been responsible for the expanding research programme. Eurothink is a vocal think-tank group in Macedonia which uses […]
Since I started my Chevening year (2015/2016) I have been writing a blog with two main aims: to be a travel diary of my experience living and studying in the UK, and to share my adventures with my family and friends. Writing in Reading was a way to tell others about my experience studying an MSc […]
Following on the successful completion of my Chevening year at the University of Birmingham in 2012, I found myself working for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in Myanmar. I was recruited to work on governance programmes and I felt extremely happy as my work and studies were quite relevant. I did my master’s […]
Ten Chevening Alumni have been selected to do placements in different departments of the BBC World Service, a highly respected British institution, over a period of four months. They have been sharing their stories and experiences from their placements through our new online mini-series – #MyCheveningJourno! Our journalists have been documenting their time working at the World Service as a way of demonstrating […]
The International Day of Peace, celebrated on 21 September each year, is devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace among all nations and peoples. To mark the occasion, we interviewed Chevening Alumnus Dr Joseph Peter Ochogwu (2004) who studied an MA in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. Joseph now works at the Institute […]
