CRF Posgraduate Scholarships 2007

Postgraduate Scholarships 2007

Two scholarships were awarded

Postgraduate Scholarships 2007-10

The Foundation awarded two Postgraduate Scholarships to support young people carrying out three-year programmes of research leading to a PhD degree in a Scottish University. In both instances, the new Foundation Scholars will be working for their degrees in the universities from which they obtained their first degrees.

Juliet Linden Bicket, a Glasgow University graduate (MA & MLitt) in Scottish Language & Literature, for a project entitled "Finding the sacramental in the everyday: Catholicism in the work of George Mackay Brown". Her aim is to review and re-interpret the work of the Orcadian writer and challenge currently-accepted views of the influence of the Catholic orthodoxy in his writings.

Jennifer Behan, a graduate in Biochemistry & Pharmacology of Strathclyde University, for a project entitled "An evaluation of the biochemical mechanisms that may contribute to the failure of methadone therapy". Two possible factors will be investigated in depth:

the rate at which methadone is converted into inactive metabolites - too fast and there is no time for methadone to exert its effects;
the blood levels of a particular protein which is known to bind to methadone - higher than normal and the methadone will be inactivated too quickly to have therapeutic effects