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Winners announced for 2022/23 Scholarship

The Trustees of the Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund are delighted to announce that the joint winners of the 2022 / 23 award are Edward Turner from the Royal College of Art and Samuel Walker from Coventry University. We were also in a position to be able to award three commendation awards, to Chen Weiting, Jade Atkins, and Jingwen Song.

You can read more about Edward, Samuel and our commendation awards, as well as our previous winners, on the Scholars page. Congratulations Edward and Samuel!

Final year of Scholarship 

The 2022/23 award was the final year of the Jonathan Speirs Scholarship. When the Fund was originally conceived and set up in 2012, we pledged to make a minimum of one award each year for ten years.

Due to the generosity of our supporters we have been able to award 16 scholarships to a diverse range of students in both the UK and US. We are so proud of the number of students we have been able to assist in their pursuit of light!

Huge thanks goes to all those individuals and organisations who have been so generous with their donations over the years; especially our Benefactors as listed on our Friends page.

A massive thank you also needs to be extended to our four Trustees – John Roake, Mark Major, Paul Gregory and David Speirs, without whom the scholarship would never have happened, and to Karina Armburg Jennings for all her administrative help.

The board would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to Alex Shall at Praxis for offering pro bono assistance with our accounts, Simon Watson at SwearingDad Design for building and maintaining our website and Telli Nourkeyhani for designing our fabulous logo.

Ernest’s Medal Presentation

Ernest’s Medal Presentation

Chairman John Roake (pictured above right) and Trustee Mark Major (above left) recently met with last year’s scholarship winner Ernest Chin Yang (in the middle) to present him with his winner’s medals. They enjoyed the opportunity to converse about all things light, architecture and design. 

Final year of Scholarship approaching

The 2022/23 award will be the last year of the Jonathan Speirs Scholarship. When the Fund was set up in 2012, we pledged to make a minimum of one award each year for ten years; we are so proud of the number of students we have been able to assist in their pursuit of light! As we prepare for the final year of the scholarship we are keen to maximise this final opportunity for students to benefit from the Fund. If you meet the criteria and are interested in being considered for the final award, please ask your course leader to get in touch with us.

Winner announced for 2021/22 Scholarship

The Trustees of the Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2021/22 award is Ernest Chin Yang from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

You can read more about Ernest and our previous winners and commendations on the Scholars page. Congratulations Ernest!

Medal presentation

Medal presentation

Chairman John Roake met with previous scholarship winners Krina, Laura and Lawrence last week to present them with their winner’s medals. The medal presentations were initially delayed due to the pandemic, however it was fantastic to have the opportunity to finally meet with the UK-based scholars from the past two years!

Winners announced for 2020/21 Scholarship

The Trustees of The Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund are delighted to announce they have selected two winners for the 2020/2021 award.

The winners for this year are Laura Carcano from the School of Art, Architecture and Design at the London Metropolitan Universit and Lawrence Lynch from the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University.

You can read more about the winners and commendations on the Scholars page. Congratulations to the two winners!

Thanks to Simon at SwearingDad Design

We would like to extend our gratitude and thanks to Simon Watson at SwearingDad Design, who designed and looks after our fabulous website. Given the current global pandemic, he has very generously absorbed a number of the annual charges typical of running a website. We truly appreciate all he does for the charity, both in a typical year and especially so at the moment – thank you Simon!

Winners announced for 2019/20 Scholarship

The Trustees of The Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund are delighted to announce that, following the extremely high standard of entries this year, they have selected two winners for the 2019/2020 award, with an additional two students receiving commendations. The winners for this year are Stella Destephanis Murray who is studying at Penn State University, USA and Krina Christopolou from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.

Commendations were awarded to Sydney Nguyen of California Polytechnic State University and Meryem Ozmen of Northumbria University.

You can read more about the winners and commendations on the Scholars page. Congratulations to all the recipients!

Thanks to RSHP Charitable Foundation

Huge thanks to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Charitable Foundation who recently donated £1,000 to the Scholarship Fund. This is on top of previous donations in other years. Special thanks to RSHP Managing Director Avtar Lotay who nominated JSSF for the donation. Your support is most appreciated!

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