The Geoff Hall Scholarships (GHSs) are given in honour of a former President of EMWA. The Scholarships are awarded annually on the basis of an essay competition, and the title of this year’s essay was ‘How to keep your reader interested from start to finish’. This year the scholarships were awarded to Hanna Kurlanda-Witek and Sara Mostafa.
Hanna graduated from the University of Warsaw (Poland) with a master’s degree in environmental science in 2008. She then completed her PhD degree in geosciences at the University of Edinburgh in 2013. After working in an engineering consultancy in Warsaw for a few years, Hanna became a freelance science writer. Sara obtained her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. She moved to the UK in 2018, and after a break in her clinical career, has recently embarked on her journey as a freelance medical writer.
Hanna’s and Sara’s winning essays are presented in the June issue of MEW, and this year’s essay competition is now open. The title is ‘Can scientific documents be easy to read?’
Credits for the slide deck animation go to EMWA’s Creative Team and Jen Lewis as the main creator of the document.