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Scheme with a job offer at the end of
her course. Dannii also won an award at
Brunel University for Female Engineer of
the Year. Dannii is now working full time
at Renishaw as a Graduate Manufacturing
Electronic Engineer and has completed
her probationary period successfully and
has also volunteered and been trained to
become an ambassador to encourage other
young people into the field of engineering
particularly women and will be visiting
schools with Renishaw.
Deya Ward-Niblett (D, 2008-2013)
went straight from Teddies to the
University of Leeds to study Zoology.
During her time there she was part of the
television society and a writer and editor
for the university science magazine. In her
third year, she applied to be the long term
communications volunteer for Dr Birute
Galdikas (who worked with Jane Goodall
and Dianne Fossey) at the Orangutan
Foundation International Care Centre
and Quarantine in a village called Pasir
Panjang in Central Kalimantan, Borneo.
The application process took a year. Deya
began her tenure in December 2016
working with an all-Indonesian staff and
interacting with the orangutans of all ages.
Responsible for the communications for
the organisation, she acted as its ‘voice’
(filming, photography, writing stories for
the newsletters and blogs, assisting in vet
reports and records). Upon returning to
the UK in July 2017 and before beginning
an MA in Wildlife Filmmaking based in
Bristol, she signed up for the South Coast
Challenge - a gruelling ultra-marathon
100km which follows the beautiful
coastline from Eastbourne to Arundel via
Brighton. Deya is now studying in Bristol
and working on her final project which will
be a film that she will create back in Pasir
Panjang with the orangutans alongside Dr
Galdikas and the Orangutan Foundation
International.
2014
Megan Brittan (M, 2008-2014) has
completed an English Literature degree at
the University of Warwick and embarked
upon a career in film production. Her
credits to date include production roles
for commercials, campaign spots, short
films and a feature film both on-set and in
the development process. She is currently
in the process of setting up a production
company and fixing a final draft for her
first feature project as a screenwriter. In
May, she attended Cannes Film Festival as
a writer for a Comic Con Project.
Theo Gerrard-Anderson (E, 2009-
2014) has won a Thouron Fellowship to
do his PhD in nano chemistry at the Singh
Center for Nanotechnology/Chemistry
Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia.
Flossie Pugh (D, 2009-2014) has
continued to go from strength to strength.
Her performance in Lady Macbeth earned
her a nomination for the BAFTA EE Rising
Star Award. She starred in The Commuter ,
an action thriller starring Liam Neeson in
early 2018, appeared alongside Dwayne
‘The Rock’ Johnson in Fighting with my
Familyand will portray Elizabeth de Burgh
in Outlaw King to be released later this
year. She played Cordelia in a BBC TV
film version of King Lear that featured
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Emily
Watson, Jim Broadbent and Christopher
Eccleston. Flossie has also won the starring
role in the BBC TV adaptation of John le
Carré’s spy novel The Little Drummer Girl.
2015
Lucia Azzi (N, 2013-2015) was nominated
in the category of Most Influential Female
Student of the Year in The Tab Future 100.
She came second overall and was voted the
3rd year winner.
Meg Neville (D, 2010-2015) is in her final
year at King’s College London where she
has been studying Classical Civilisation. She
hopes to stay on for a Master’s degree.
She spent two successful years coxing
for ULBC, competing widely and winning
Women’s Henley. She was awarded a
half purple for services to University of
London Boat club. She has now moved to
London Rowing Club where she coxes the
first VIII and is looking forward to another
competitive summer.
Anastasia Fabian-Hunt (M, 2013-
2015) has been offered a place to study
medicine at Manchester University starting
September 2018.
2016
Theodore Barker (C, 2011-2016) and
Louis Wright (C, 2011-2016) received
their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award at
Buckingham Palace in November 2017.
Isabelle Rayner (M, 2011-2016) also
recently received her Gold Duke of
Edinburgh Award at Buckingham Palace
in May 2018.
2017
James Burr (G, 2012-2017), Elizabeth
Dorey (K, 2015-2017), Nick Healy
(F, 2012-2017) and Noah Phipps (H,
2012-2017) attended their Gold Duke
of Edinburgh Award presentation at
Buckingham Palace in May 2018.
William Webb (H, 2012-2017) climbed
Imja Tse, a 6189m Himalayan peak in
April 2018.
William Webb Lucia Azzi