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
Brian Heron
2001
Lisa McAlinden
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
C S P O'Brien
2006
Christopher Browne - Alabama
2007
Lee Simpson
Patrick Bradley
2008
Hayley McAdams - Barcelona
2009
Lisa Hunter Japan
Jamie Agnew - Switzerland
2011
Naomi Sheehan - Finland
2012
David Jebb (RGU) - Norway
2013
Benjamin Connell (QUB) - China
Mark Donnelly (QUB) - Netherlands
2014
Sarah Steenson - Brazil