Churchill Fellows work on the frontline of today’s crucial issues, developing new solutions based on global research and personal expertise. In this section you can find their latest views and advice, news, activities and events.
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As 2025 draws to a close, we’ve selected a range of Fellows’ blogs that capture the learning and perspectives they shared throughout the year. Covering topics from domestic abuse and criminal justice to arts, health, and innovation, these reflections show how Fellows are applying international insights in practical ways across the UK. Together, they offer a window into the conversations and connections shaping their ongoing work.
As 2025 draws to a close, we’ve selected a range of Fellows’ blogs that capture the learning and perspectives they shared throughout the year. Covering topics from domestic abuse and criminal justice to arts, health, and innovation, these reflections show how Fellows are applying international insights in practical ways across the UK. Together, they offer a window into the conversations and connections shaping their ongoing work.
Join our Fellows at events happening across the UK and online, where they share the global insights and learning gained through their Churchill Fellowships.
We spoke to Churchill Fellow Sophia Alexandra Hall about how her Fellowship helped shape her trauma-informed interviewing toolkit, now used across major UK newsrooms. Drawing on her lived experience and 50 interviews in the USA, she reflects on the need for safer, more empowering media practices for care-experienced and other under-represented people. She also shares how this work has grown through training, conference speaking, and an expanding public platform at Big Issue.
By Sophia Alexandra Hall, 4 December 2025
Professor Chris Elliott OBE (CF 1993) delivered the keynote speech at the 2025 Worshipful Company of Butchers (WCB) City Meat Lecture.
By Christopher Elliott, 27 November 2025
Sonia Shaljean (CF 2025) has been named National Agent of Change at the She Inspires Global Awards 2025, recognising her work addressing fatherlessness and supporting boys through positive male role models. Her organisation, Lads Need Dads, also recently contributed to the Centre for Social Justice’s national report.
By Sonia Shaljean, 27 November 2025
Darren Way (CF 2000) has recently launched a new Centre for Applied Research & Evaluation within his charity Streets of Growth.
By Darren Way, 27 November 2025
Dennis Gray (CF 1968) has published Essays from the Edge, a collection of twenty-one essays spanning fifty years of his writing on British climbing and mountaineering.
By Dennis Gray, 27 November 2025
Sophia Alexandra Hall (CF 2023) featured in an episode of the Trauma-Informed Conversations podcast, exploring trauma-informed storytelling.
By Sophia Alexandra Hall, 21 November 2025
Sarah Yardley (CF 2024) shared insights from her Churchill Fellowship at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Mental Health and Palliative Care: Tending the Mind, Body and Soul conference.
By Sarah Yardley, 20 November 2025
Marina Logcheva (CF 2025) spoke at the Diversity and Inclusion in Leisure Forum NSW/ACT at the University of Technology Sydney.
By Marina Logacheva, 20 November 2025
Marina Logcheva (CF 2025) spoke at the Diversity and Inclusion in Leisure Forum NSW/ACT at the University of Technology Sydney.
By Marina Logacheva, 20 November 2025
