Our Minds Scholarship Programme

A funding programme with a public outreach element

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Applying for funding

Each year, the Our Minds Programme offers funds to enable students - undergraduate and postgraduate -  to carry out novel and imaginative research projects in any discipline on any topic related in some way to Our Minds. 

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Edinburgh Medical School

Edinburgh Neuroscience administered the scheme from its inception in 2012 through to 2023. Previous award holders and their projects are listed below. 

The scheme is now run by the Edinburgh Medical School. Details of the following can be found on their website: 

  • What is required
  • The funding available
  • The application process
  • The applications form

Visit Edinburgh Medical School - Our Minds to apply

The Our Mind programme was previously known as the The Henderson Scholarship and was targeted mostly at science projects. The scheme now encourages applications from all disciplines.

2024 
For a fuller account of projects in 2024, please see the attached document, 'Our Minds cohort introduction 2024'
Emily BeaneyExploring how neurological conditions can expand minds, bodies and networks of care
Joshua HewJudging in the presence or absence of consensus in the context of discussions around, e.g. the climate crisis. 
Jess LonsdaleBuilding bridges in the autism community through art
Lea SatalaThe Edinburgh Mental Health film club
Wushuang TongThe mind-body concerto
Marie TrestrailWe can still hear you
Dora ZoiCrafting sculptural works that capture the brain's physicality and depicting the intricate connections and processes within it
2023 
For a fuller account of projects in 2023, please see the related news article, Our Minds Public Event
Nicole AndersonDisrupting Edinburgh's Colonial Past through Proactive Repatriation
Mouna Chatt(Re)wayat: Renarrating Muslims in Edinburgh
Tanatsei GamburaNzira Yeparuware: Tracing Colonial Memory Through Sound
Leo HajduckiSynaesthesia
Robina RubinMaking Up My Mind
Robyn ThomasUnexpected Guests
Jana Tomastikovaridge Your Mind with Lothian Birth Cohort
Caroline WiygulPoetry Rituals for Embodied Cognition
2021 
Daisy ChamberlainAnatomical Museum Scholarship (Phrenology Collection)
2019 
Molly HickeyExploring the variability in sensitivity to modulation of synaptic strength by magnesium across the larval drosophila neuromuscular junction
Ara KimFunctional recovery of locomotor circuits followingspinal cordinjury in Xenopustadpoles
Lucja KostrzewaDoes reducing sensory stimulation after learning improve long-termhippocampalmemory in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome?
Yilan ShenExploring mechanisms of mechanotransduction using a transgenic tarantula toxin
Ariam Teklemichael 
Gaia DubertiAnatomical Museum Scholarship (Phrenology Collection)
2018 
Ruby HannSummer Scholarship (Anatomical Museum and National Galleries of Scotland) 
Emma FowlerWhat is the role of 16p11.2 CNV genes in human neurogenesis?
Anna KurowskaEstablishing KillerRed-mediated photoablation to study the effect of neuronal injury on tectal neural circuits
Katarzyna Mazur 
 		Is hyperinnervation with Meissner’s corpuscles associated with incisional dynamic allodynia?
Lisl Tudor Evaluation of vital stains for neuromuscular junctions and their potential utility in confocal endomicroscopy
2017 
Jack KellardExploring neuron morphology and grid cell circuitry in the medial entorhinal cortex
Emma Mather-PikeCan yeast be used to improve Tetanus toxin labelling of the neuromuscular junction?
Jessica PasslackExpanding the genetic code of C. elegans to incorporate the photoactive amino acid p-benzoyl-l-phenylalanine
2016 
Ivan Bartos Post-hoc identification of inhibitory neurons subtypes imaged in vivo with 2-photon calcium imaging
Makis Tzioras Correlation of amyloid pathology with EEG abnormalities in Alzheimer’s Disease
2015 
Athina Arunldass Can cognitive deficits be rescued by lovastatin in a rat model of fragile X syndrome
Elena Purlyt Cortical progenitor population size and expression of Delta-like 1 in the cortex of Ngn2-null mutant mice during corticogenesis
Teresa SpanoRegulation of neuronal potassium channels by S-acylation, Laboratory
2014 
Isabela Jedrasiak Cholinergic control of hippocampal sharp wave ripples
Francesca Malagodi Expression analysis of molecules in control and Fox1-/- mutant eyes during embryonic development
2013 
Milena Blaga The effect of Pax6 overexpression on the expression of Notch ligand genes Delta-like and Jagged in Pax77 mutant mice
Sean HarbisonIs the neuropathology associated with loss of Syngap mGluR5-dependent?
Thomas MarchantDo gamma motor neurons degenerate in Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)?
Julia ThomasDo mouse place cells show trajectory dependent activity?
2012 
Adam Jackson Is the neuropathology associated with loss of Syngap mGluR5-dependent?
Jonathan ShawThe Effect of vasopressin on light induced Fos expression in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus
Daumante SuminaiteDetermine whether loss of beta-III spectrin in mice causes cellular abnormalitites in prefontal cortex and other structural brain changes which may underlie cognitive deficits observed in Spectrin-associated Autosomal Recessive Cerebellar Ataxia type I (SPARCA1)

 


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