Alan Barnes Travelling Scholarship
The Alan Barnes Travelling Scholarship is an award made annually at the discretion of the President of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects, in conjunction with other adjudicators. The scholarship is intended to help architectural students to travel and to study architecture overseas.
History and criteria
Alan Barnes died in 1987 and to honour his memory, the Barnes family in conjunction with the Royal Society of Ulster Architects and the Queen's University of Belfast established a travelling scholarship. This scholarship is open to any student born in Northern Ireland who studies at a recognised school of architecture in the British Isles and who is in their third year of study.
Past recipients
Recent recipients and their countries of study have included:
1999
2001
Christopher McElroy (QUB) - North Korea
2002
Denis M Burke (QUB) - Colombia
2003
Lewis Bailie (QUB) - Spain & Portugal
Jemma Houston (QUB) - Bosnia and Herzegovina & Croatia
2004
Chris Upson (Leeds Metropolitan University) - United States
2005
Godfrey Boyd (ETH Zurich) - Iran
2014
Benjamin Connell (QUB) - China
Mark Donnelly (QUB) - Netherlands