UCL Laws PhD candidates receive Research Excellence Scholarships for Cross-disciplinary Training

Weronika Chrzanowska and Todd Davies have each been awarded a UCL Research Excellence Scholarship for Cross-disciplinary Training for academic year 2024-25. The scholarships will extend their doctoral study by 12 months, allowing them to spend a year in another UCL department and acquire new research skills. Weronika, whose research on allotments, community gardens and the law is co-supervised by Professor Jane Holder and Dr Karen Nokes, will be spending academic year 2024-25 in the Department of Geography.

Todd will be spending 2024-25 in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment. His research, which looks at how competition law might benefit from non-economic understandings of competition such as those from theoretical and systems ecology, is supervised by Professor Ioannis Lianos, Dr Deni Mantzari and Professor David Murrell.

We wish Weronika and Todd well for their exciting 12 months ahead, and look forward to welcoming them back to UCL Laws in September 2025.

Professor Ilanah Fhima, Director of Research Studies at UCL Laws, said: "Only four of these Scholarships are awarded by UCL each academic year across the whole College, so it is to the great credit of Weronika and Todd that they were each successful in securing this fiercely competitive funding, which I am sure will enrich their research and prove to be an invaluable experience for their future careers. These awards really demonstrate the Faculty’s emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to legal study and academic excellence through diverse methodological approaches.”