Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Welcome Event 2024
“Our community is hugely grateful to David and Claudia Harding for their vision and generosity in creating this flagship programme. Their extraordinary philanthropy has transformed our ability to bring the very best of the world’s postgraduate students to Cambridge to immerse themselves in their research with complete academic freedom.
Postgraduate support is a top priority for the University, and we are delighted to welcome our sixth Harding cohort to Cambridge."
Programme
- 11.30am Welcome reception
- 11.45am Welcome address: Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deborah Prentice, Master of St Catharine’s College, Sir John Benger, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life, Professor John Aston
- 11.50am Scholar research presentations
- 12.15pm Panel discussion followed by Q&A
- 12.45pm Networking buffet lunch
- 1.30pm Event closes
Scholar speakers
Meet the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars
About the programme
The Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars
Programme (HDPSP) was established in February 2019 thanks to a landmark benefaction from the David and Claudia Harding Foundation, the biggest single gift made to a university in the UK by a British philanthropist.
The programme aims to support academically outstanding students, from any part of the world and in any discipline, to contribute to society by producing intellectually rigorous research which makes a positive difference to the academic community and the wider world.
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