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Policy and funding

Breaking barriers and opening up physics – the growing impact of the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund

18 Apr 2023

Helen Gleeson, who chairs the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund, describes the importance of nurturing and supporting talented students from non-traditional backgrounds in physics so they can overcome obstacles in academia

A group of PhD students with Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Getting started The 2019 launch event for the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund, attended by PhD students and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. (Courtesy: Institute of Physics/Carl Bigmore)
Imagine winning a $3m prize and then giving all the money away. That’s exactly what the astrophysi

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Helen Gleeson is the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Leeds and chair of the selection panel for the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund
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