Hannah Baldwin
Demonstrating how the arts can help children and young people to improve their local communities.
2023
Unveiling the Extraordinary: the Churchill Fellowship Announces 141 New Fellows for 2023
We are pleased to announce that 141 remarkable people have been selected as new Fellows for 2023. This remarkable group of people represents a diverse range of backgrounds, expertise and aspirations.
The chosen Fellows demonstrated high levels of energy, knowledge and commitment to ideas and vision that have the potential to make a profound impact on our society.
Our new Fellows will learn from as far afield as Estonia and Madagascar, where they will draw on the experience and knowledge of experts, leaders and stakeholders working in their areas of interest, so they can immerse themselves in new and best practices, learn new approaches and create international connections to help drive transformative change in the UK.
We look forward to supporting them in their pursuit of knowledge and innovation.
Everyone can apply for a Churchill Fellowship, regardless of age, background or qualifications, so long as they are a UK citizen aged 18 or over. Applications for 2024 Fellowships open on 12 September 2023.
Meet our new Fellows by clicking the links below:
Our 2023 Fellows
Zoe Gilbertson
Building resilience through bioregional material production centred on nature and community.
2023
Dominic Heslop
Creating positive pathways for seldom heard young musicians
2023
Jessica Ihejetoh
Deepening community-focused creativity in modern Settlement Houses and community hubs
2023
Lucinda Jarrett
Developing professional performance practices for communities living with effects of brain injury
2023
Saira Niazi
Helping renegade tour guides to improve their practise to better serve local communities.
2023
Ruairiadh O'Connell
Exploring how art collections can help express the lived experiences of dementia
2023
Boseda Olawoye
How to create collaborative arts projects with, by and for diverse communities
2023
Cian Smyth
Challenging global narratives about peace processes, and how creativity survives political conflict.
2023
Amy Woodhouse
Exploring national approaches to increasing access to hobbies for children and young people
2023
Dan Carne
Researching traditional woodmeadow management to inspire innovative agroforestry in Britain
2023
Jenny Chapman
Feeding the world with safe, healthy, sustainable and ethical protein sources
2023
Rob Dewar
Protecting biodiversity by preventing invasive non native species from damaging ecosystems.
2023
Martin Gaywood
Exploring how moving species for conservation purposes benefits nature in a changing climate
2023
Stephen Haywood
Learning alternative ways to create ecologically rich woodlands that complement tree planting.
2023
Oliver Hutchings
Analysing the viability of Rights of Nature models as legal tools for protecting UK ecosystems
2023
Toby Meredith
Using drone technology for the managment of wildfires in the UK
2023
Amber Merrick-Potter
Improving cultural engagements for nature connectedness
2023
Holly Silvester
Exploring collaborative & dynamic approaches to seed production that build resilience and diversity
2023
Carry Somers
Mending fashion's relationship with nature through plant fibres and dyes
2023
Susie Talbot
Evolving the purpose, content and practice of law through the rights of nature movement.
2023
Nikki Taylor
Seeking solutions to achieve our commitment of minimising protected species bycatch
2023
Ross Watson
Finding diverse solutions to manage invasive non-native plants threatening our ecosystems.
2023
Sharon Graham
Helping all those involved in adoption during the time a child may want to find their birth parents.
2023
Sophia Alexandra Hall
Designing a trauma-informed toolkit for journalists working with care experienced people.
2023
Sylvia Ikomi
Exploring strategies to address the adultification of Black girls in state care.
2023
Augusta Itua
Improving access to social care records for individuals with care experience.
2023
Ivana La Valle
A better deal for children in residential care in England
2023
Sharon McPherson
Improving access to support for African, Caribbean and Black Mixed Heritage Kinship Care Families
2023
Esme Miller
Supporting the distinct needs of LGBTQ+ young people in systems of care.
2023
Lauren Page-Hammick
Supporting care leavers' safe transitions to adulthood and preventing homelessness
2023
Lynn Snow
Enabling support, identification and teaching about Post Adoption Depression for adopters.
2023
Amanda Bryan
Growing the forestry workforce through improving young people's understanding of forestry.
2023
Tim Crook
Enabling homes and businesses to respond to energy system balancing using things other than money.
2023
Jodie Crook-Giles
Reducing carbon emissions from electric kilns and pottery firing practices.
2023
Amelia Dearman
How to better prepare the UK for extreme heat.
2023
Adam Golden
Exploring green procurement and how to procure net zero
2023
Alistair Kirkbride
Decarbonising the whole visitor journey for rural destinations
2023
Lucy Power
Inspiring young people suffering from climate anxiety through creative climate communication.
2023
Georgie Styles
Telling stories of food resilience in the face of extreme changing island climates
2023
Michael Titcombe
Learning how to improve fire and rescue emergency responses to Water Rescue incidents that involve animals
2023
Leanne Werner
Helping to create more food growing spaces in cities that are beneficial for nature.
2023
Pragya Agarwal
Developing more robust frameworks and policies for inclusive education in schools.
2023
Neil Arora
Providing innovative ways of play to serve as tools in reducing the disadvantage gap.
2023
Rachel Ashe
Understanding how integrated language education assists with reconciliation in post-conflict societies and helps unite local communities
2023
Laura Beattie
Closing the attainment gap through inclusive primary careers education.
2023
Chris Bingley
Mobilising evidence about school improvement in Canada/USA to inform system change in Bolton.
2023
Romy Catmull
Developing effective education and legal responses to address the human cost of illegal drugs.
2023
Daryl Chambers
Forging a supportive alternative provision framework for empowering youth
2023
Chrystal Cunningham
Reducing racism and its negative psychological impact in schools.
2023
Andrea Duxbury
Identifying universal essential skills and competencies that all children need when starting school.
2023
Helen Henderson
Developing culturally relevant curricula that empowers and heals future generations in NI
2023
Sarah Hovington
Leading the change so Cerebral Vision Impairment (CVI) in children is understood more widely.
2023
Alexandra Lyons
Supporting underrepresented young people at every stage of their journey to university
2023
Jonathan McBride
Teaching foreign languages to young people through co-created stories and storytelling.
2023
Sharon O'Dell
Preventing School avoidance in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
2023
Nicole Robinson-Edwards
Developing an accessible cultural competent mental health resource for Black girls.
2023
Sue Robson
Supporting the learning and wellbeing of autistic pupils.
2023
Beverley Samways
Innovating trauma-informed support for people with intellectual disabilities.
2023
Hannah Stanislaus
Bringing Poetry to the UK National Curriculum as a separate subject.
2023
Melanie Vaxevanakis
Preventing social inequality by investing in community spaces and food education.
2023
Lizzy Winstone
Teaching algorithmic literacy to young people to promote positive social media use
2023
Darryl Ashford-Smith
Providing emergency services and volunteer drone pilots with multi-disciplinary principles
2023
Iain Britton
Helping to improve and grow volunteering in policing.
2023
Andrea Campos-Vigouroux
Using problem-solving courts to deliver robust criminal justice outcomes for domestic abuse victims
2023
Emma Cookson
Improving access to digital healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers
2023
Michelle Cutland
Exploring how high income countries meet the needs of seldom heard groups after sexual violence
2023
Nicole Devlin
Addressing misogyny and reducing violence against women and girls.
2023
Jeannot Farmer
Healing the wounds of historic adoption practices.
2023
Gemma Gray
Uncovering innovative social and employment opportunities for autistic females.
2023
Cath Hill
Providing innovative forms of support for young people affected by disasters.
2023
Chloe Joyner
Empowering families of children and young people living with progressive deafblindness to thrive
2023
Shabana Kausar
Training for professionals to end violence against women and understanding what works
2023
Talia Kensit
Creating a national framework to address and end young people's relationship abuse.
2023
Ryan McCloskey
Reducing HIV transmission by making PREP more accessible to those at risk
2023
Heather McFarlane
Realising the potential of Allied Health Professionals in reducing health inequalities.
2023
Sabrina Mahtani
Exploring ways to reduce the incarceration of women and girls by amplifying voices and solutions
2023
Ursula O'Hare
Building the resilience of law centres across the UK to transform lives through law.
2023
Leanne Pero
Debunking misconceptions around breast cancer amongst the black community.
2023
Jimmy Pickering
Empowering parents and carers to lead on educational change
2023
Philippa Rees
Improving outcomes after Hypoxic-Ischaemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
2023
Jo Reilly
Designing and delivering effective support services for survivors of childhood sexual abuse
2023
Kate Reynolds
Supporting families & staff to positively manage sexualised behaviour in autism/learning disability
2023
Aaron Taylor
Tackling fraud and financial crime in the global art market
2023
Lucy Vincent
Improving the quality of food served prisons to support health and wellbeing.
2023
Faye Watson
Building resilient communities affected by blood-borne viruses in Scotland.
2023
Jo-Anne Weekes
Providing cultural mental health support in hair salons for Black women living with hair loss
2023
Laura Wyatt-Smith
Understanding the impact of mobile phones, internet and social media on young people's mental health
2023
Laura Ainsworth
Improving palliative care for teenagers and young adults
2023
Dave Bradley
Improving mental health and wellbeing at the end of life.
2023
Zoe Brummell
Improving family involvement and bereavement care in end of life care in Adult Intensive Care
2023
Danni Collingridge Moore
Supporting care homes to provide quality end of life care to older adults during pandemics.
2023
Deanna Mezen
Altering people perceptions of palliative and end of life care within the prison population.
2023
Jennifer Peterson
Improving neonatal palliative and end of life care training using narrative medicine
2023
Shaun Peter Qureshi
Helping the most vulnerable people in society get the palliative care they need.
2023
Ed Richfield
Developing palliative care services for people with progressive neurological conditions.
2023
Victoria Shepherd
Enabling people to express their preferences about research should they lose capacity to consent
2023
Kate Woodthorpe
Finding out how other countries provide funerals for the most marginalised members of society
2023
Shaista Aziz
Examining the barriers preventing Muslim women and girls from accessing football and how to make football equitable for them
2023
Mary-Jane Boswell
Promoting activity and well being for older people living in care homes
2023
Kyrby Brown
Improving provision of sport and outdoor recreational activities for adults with disabilities
2023
Anahita Harding
Researching self defence techniques for disabled women and girls
2023
Emily Hyland
Fostering inclusive wellbeing for disabled people
2023
Eloise Moller
Helping to create sustainable physical activity access for those experiencing homelessness
2023
Kierson Wise
Supporting disabled people to get active through adaptive and inclusive cycling
2023
Rebecca Verling
Looking into international, early, Multi disciplinary intervention post Parkinson's diagnosis
2023
Sripriya Arai Sudhakar
City as a laboratory : Building partnerships and delivering innovative solutions to urban problems
2023
Lucy Atkinson
Exploring community-led approaches to regeneration in inner city areas
2023
Patrick Brown
Exploring the impact of Basic Income type programmes in South America
2023
John Barker
Activating economic and social impact through international models of supply chain reshoring
2023
Symeon Brown
Researching how Black minorities build cultural and economic capital: and what they do with it
2023
Iain Chambers
Working to promote achievable, meaningful and enduring solutions to food inequality and injustice
2023
Pete Donnelly
Scaling innovation from lived experience of disability
2023
Ed Hamer
Researching the contrast in growth of Community Supported Agriculture across the U.S.A. and the UK
2023
Rachael Mole
Building inclusive work cultures for disabled employees to drive innovation
2023
James Allen
Setting up a vegetable mirco-tannery for cattle hides
2023
Hannah Greatorex
Helping farmers to diversify into small scale fibre production with support and community
2023
Beverley Harden
Realising rural workforce solutions by optimising Allied Health training and skills utilisation
2023
Christine Malseed
Researching how to encourage UK rural families and business's to start their own Succession Plan
2023
Keith Ruffles
Exploring how migration might strengthen rural communities
2023
Gareth Twigg
Identifying new ways to deliver effective rural policing
2023
Judith Vickress
Making survivors of domestic abuse living in rural areas safer and holding perpetrators to account
2023
Piers Barber
Understanding the preventative potential of postvention following prison suicides
2023
Sophie Beech
Developing community-based models of suicide prevention to support isolated migrants
2023
Anoo Bhalay
Providing targeted holistic therapies to South Asian women as part of suicide intervention
2023
Kane Dodgson
Unleashing the healing power of creative storytelling to help reduce and overcome suicidal feelings
2023
Rhiannon Evans
Prevention of suicide in children and young people who have been in foster, kinship or residential care
2023
Darrell Gale
Seeing how public activism can reduce deaths by suicide in busy public places
2023
Rory Keddie
Equipping medical students with the skills to prevent suicide
2023
Marsha McAdam
Investigate the social injustices and inequity that a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder often attracts
2023
Maria Roberts
Understanding the best way to gather insights from people with lived experience of suicide
2023
Nina Smith
Exploring school-based suicide prevention strategies
2023
Tim Woodhouse
Reducing the risk of suicide amongst people impacted by domestic abuse
2023
Daria Cybulska
Identifying new approaches and tools available to communities for safe and efficient activism online
2023
Sarabajaya Kumar
Collaborating with health tech developers on disability inclusion
2023
Emma Pickering
Creating best practice solutions for survivors of technology-facilitated abuse
2023
Katie Schwarzmann
Investigating the uses and regulation of automated decision-making in immigration systems
2023
Ritvij Singh
Investigating the practical application of artificial intelligence in combatting homelessness
2023
Amy Watson
Improving tech safety for children: What lies beneath the selfie?
2023