2024 VCSIA Masters Student Award Winner – Ming Hong Choi
As the late Nelson Mandela once eloquently remarked, “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference...
2024 VCSIA PhD Student Award Winner – Swetha Kannan
Swetha Kannan is a successful junior scientist, educator, and social entrepreneur currently pursuing her PhD in medicine at the University of Cambridge. In her time...
2024 VCSIA PhD Student Award Winner – Nazifa Rafa
Since my early undergraduate years, I have had the privilege to have been engaged withnumerous research projects related to environmental justice in impoverished and marginalised...
2024 VCSIA Undergraduate Student Award Winner – Faustine Petron-Daniels
My social action journey started before I came to Cambridge. As a teenager, I founded an online, community-led magazine funded by the Civic Square Dream...
2024 VCSIA PhD Student Award Winner – Mayumi Sato
Forums intended to address transnational social and environmental injustices are seemingly focal areas of contention every year. Conferences like the Conference of Parties (COPs) and...
2024 VCSIA Innovation Award Winner – William Lan
It is with immense gratitude and a profound sense of responsibility that I am honoured with the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award in the Innovation category....
2024 VCSIA Local Impact Award Winner – Zara Crapper
Scouting has been a part of my life since I was 6 years old, with many great memories and friends made along the way. Upon...
2024 VCSIA Global Impact Award Winner – Paulina Pérez-Duarte Mendiola
Meet Paulina VCSIA- GLOBAL IMPACT 2024 Award winner! Paulina Pérez-Duarte Mendiola, MD, MSc, is a clinical paediatrician, medical anthropologist and final year PhD Candidate (PEDAL...
2024 VCSIA PhD Student Award Winner – Samantha Hodder
Sam is a final year PhD student studying in the Department of Biochemistry, supervised by Professor Laura Machesky and Professor Bill Broadhurst. During a clinical...
2024 VCSIA Undergraduate Student Award Winner – Sakshi Jha
Sakshi is a law finalist, whose commitment to upholding human rights in both a practical and academic context is consistently visible. Sakshi first co-founded Cambridge...
2023 VCSIA PhD Student Award Winner-Megan Groom
My social impact sustainability journey: From Devon’s nature to Cambridge’s laboratories In the picturesque and green hills of Devon, I spent my childhood surrounded by...
2023 VCSIA PhD Student Award Winner-Awa Farah
Too often a lack of resources keeps young people from reaching their full potential in education. In the second year of my PhD as a...
2023 VCSIA PhD Student Award Winner-Madeleine Hahne
In 2018, I stood on a balcony in Erbil Iraq, watching a flickering light beyond the concrete towers. Evening drew in and more lights appeared....
2023 VCSIA Undergraduate Student Award Winner-Sanah Kashyap
Sanah has a diverse advisory portfolio, having served in a range of roles spanning from diversity, equity, and inclusion-related matters for organisational development to strategic...
2023 VCSIA Undergraduate Student Award Winner-Imogen Arden-Jones
My name is Imogen (or @imydoesmed on Instagram) and I am a 5th year medical student at St John’s College, a trustee of YoungMinds, and...
2023 VCSIA Innovation Award Winner-Qinglan Du
Qinglan is a first-year law student at Christ’s College. She is an international student originally from Beijing, but grew up moving frequently between countries because...
