The twenty-three students and scholars below were awarded places to carry out their research in London with the support of the Trust in 2025. The Trust will be inviting applications for visits in 2025 in the autumn – see here. For information about visiting scholars from previous years please see here.

ABADY, Mona Ali, El Mansoura University, EGYPT: ‘The material culture of the 29th Dynasty in Egypt’. Dr Mona reports on her time in London here.

Mona Abady investigating Late Period stelae in the Petrie Museum

ABDEL KADER, Hesham Ahmed Mohamed, Ain-Shams University, EGYPT: ‘Epigraphy, study and documented the inscriptions in the northern quarries of Amarna’. Second visit. Dr Hesham remembers ‘not only a period of academic productivity but also one of personal inspiration’ here.

Dr Hesham Abdelkader with his PhD dissertation on The Baths and water management at Hermopolis Magna in the Roman Period (27 BC – 641 AD) (Cairo, 2024) which he had completed since his first visit to London with the Trust’s support in 2023

ARTEMIUK, Jakub, Attorney-at-law and PhD candidate in the Department of Numismatics and Museology, Faculty of Archaeology, Warsaw University, POLAND: ‘Scientific, legal and practical aspects of archaeological heritage protection’, with particular reference to the organisation and functioning of The Portable Antiquities Scheme programme in England and Wales, and the functioning of the Treasure Act 1996’. Jakub describes a very productive month visiting institutions and colleagues here.

Jakub Artemiuk at the British Museum

BREVICK, Paige, University College London: ‘Ancient Egypt Reimagined: Exhibitionary Strategies in Redesigned Galleries’.

Paige Brevick (L) with fellow October 2025 visitor Shaimaa Saber (see below) in Kensington gardens

CEGLIŃSKI, Arkadiusz, Specialist researcher in the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Archaeology, Warsaw University, POLAND: ‘The Development of European Landscape Residences in the Eighteenth Century’. Arkadiusz remembers a very productive second visit, here.

Arkadiusz Ceglinski at Stourhead

CORNELISSE, Eva, Leiden University, THE NETHERLANDS: ‘Piccinini, ‘Someone who knew the antiquities’- European presence and Egyptological activities in early 19th Century western Thebes’.

November visitors Islam Gadallah (left – see also below) and Eva Cornelisse (right)

DUNAJKO, Monika, Curator, University of Warsaw Museum, and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Archaeology, Warsaw University, POLAND: ‘Classical Sculptures and Plaster Casts in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Public and Private Collections’. Monika recalls her second visit to London with the Trust’s support here.

Monika Dunajko-Ceglinská examining the plaster casts of the Parthenon frieze (the Elgin Marbles) in the Britis Musem’s Archaeological Research Collection in Reading

GADALLAH, Islam, Ain Shams University, EGYPT: ‘Publishing of an Anthropoid Wooden Coffin from the Late Period at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo’. Islam reports on the ‘invaluable opportunity to undertake my research in London’ here.

Islam Gadalllah in the study room of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum

HAJAJ, Ezzeldin, University of Khartoum, SUDAN: ‘Museums as an effective agent of peace and reconciliation in Sudan: case study: western Sudan community museums (WSCM)’. Place not taken up in 2025.

JÄÄTTELÄ Ville Juhani, PhD candidate in the Institute of Archaeology, Warsaw University, POLAND: ‘Polish Cultural Losses in World War II, with particular reference to the Historical Collections of the University of Warsaw’. Ville’s report on his month in London is here.

KAMAL, Ahmed, Cairo University, EGYPT: ‘Al–Ušmūnayn and its villages during the first five centuries of migration in the light of Arabic papyri’. Dr Ahmed remembers a ‘highly valuable’ visit to London here.

Dr Ahmed Kamal in Kensington Gardens during his visit in May 2025.

KELANY, Adel, Cairo University, EGYPT: ‘Quarries of Gabel el-Asr and Mines of Wadi el-Hudi: A Study of the Workers’ Society, the period from 2613 to 1650 B.C.’. Place not taken up in 2025.

LOIKA Maksim, Third-year undergraduate student, Department of History, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg, RUSSIA: ‘The influence of naval education in the conduct of war by British and Russian executive officers during the 19th century’. Maksim’s report on his time in London and elsewhere in the UK is here.

MICHAELIS, Vinca, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, FRANCE: Egyptological Collections and European Politics – How Acquisition Policies of European Museums Were Influenced by Political Events Between 1882 and 1918’. Vinca recalls her month in London here.

Vinca Michaelis and fellow July visitor Nolwenn Riaux (see below) examining one of the volumes of the Description de l’Égypte in the Trust’s library

MILEKOVIĆ, Ivan, PhD candidate, History of Ancient Art, Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, SERBIA: ‘Being Roman Staying Greek: Hellenism in Visual Culture of Central Balkans’.

MUSTAFA, Amira, Helwan University, EGYPT: ‘The “Archive” of Seti I: Administrative Hieratic Documents from Memphis’. Dr Amira remembers a very valuable month spent in London and Cambridge, here.

Dr Amira in the department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum

POLCZYNSKA, Marcelina, PhD candidate, Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, POLAND: ‘The alienation effect in theatre and film performance: preparation of an article provisionally entitled ‘Dematerialised humanity. The unreachable Other and the question of (post)human ethics in The Rehearsal (dir. Nathan Fielder and Four Daughters (dir. Kaouther Ben Hania)’. Marcelina’s recollections of her time in London are here.

Marcelina Połczyńska

PRAET, Maarten, PhD student, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA: ‘The Reign of Mentuhotep II Reconsidered’. Maarten was granted a special extra visit of one week in March and April 2025 and reports on his stay here.

Maarten Praet in In the library of the UCL Institute of Archaeology

RIAUX, Nolwenn, Université Rennes 2, FRANCE: Impact of the Achaemenid empire on the culture of lower Egypt during the Persian period (XXVII-XXX dyn.)’.

SABER, Shaimaa, Cairo University, EGYPT: ‘A Collection of Mummy Bandages in the World Museum of Liverpool’. Shaimaa recalls her month in London here.

Shaimaa Saber examining mummy bandages in the World Museum, Liverpool

SESELGYTE Elena, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, LITHUANIA (prospective PhD candidate in Music): ‘Integrating some aesthetics and breathing techniques into children’s piano education: a holistic approach to musical pedagogy’. Elena recalls here time in London here.

Elena Šešelgytė

ZAKY, Reham, Cairo University, EGYPT: ‘ Egyptian antiquities protection before the current legalization through scattered archives’. Second visit. 

ZIĘBA, Kinga, PhD candidate in the History of Art, Doctoral School of the Humanities, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, POLAND: ‘The Cracow Painters’ Guild in the first half of the 17th century. Creativity, rivalry and cooperation of craft workshops’ with reference to practices in other European countries. Kinga remembers ‘an amazing and unique opportunity to visit all the places I knew from books and films’ here.

Kinga Zieba outside the Warburg Institute

For information about visiting scholars from previous years please see here.