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The Harris Scholarship
Published on: 02/12/2009
The Harris Scholarship
In 2008 Baron Harris made a donation to the National Lobster Hatchery. The donation has enabled the National Lobster Hatchery to set up a small scholarship fund; the Harris Scholarship. The scholarship fund aims to attract the very best MSc students from the Sustainable Aquaculture Systems course to undertake their research project at the NLH. The fund will assist the student by providing them with a grant/bursary of £1,000 that will go towards their accommodation (whilst residing at Padstow) and transport costs. The fund is exclusively available to students on the MSc Sustainable Aquaculture systems course.
Baron Harris of Peckham
Baron Harris is the Chairman of Carpetright plc and has over 40 years’ experience in carpet retailing and is one of the best known names in the business. He was Chairman and Chief Executive of Harris Carpets. Harris Carpets acquired Queensway in 1977, to become Harris Queensway plc until the company was taken over in 1988. He was made a life peer as Baron Harris of Peckham, of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark in 1996. He has contributed extensively to education and as a result, many schools and colleges (such as Harris Manchester College, Oxford) bear his name. Through the Harris Federation, many secondary schools in Southwark have received Harris donations. In the London Borough of Croydon, he helped to found the Harris City Technology College , Harris Academy South Norwood and the Harris Academy Purley.
The project
The European lobster is not a domesticated animal, there are no commercially available diets and very little research has been undertaken regarding their dietary requirements. The overall goal of the scholarship fund it to develop, over a series of years, a diet that is suitable for the captive rearing of post larval lobsters. To optimise growth and survival and ensure that released animals are in excellent condition. Each year a student should identify a dietary ingredient that is potentially limiting survival and growth and then assess the optimal dietary values.
Initially, background work requires review and specific areas for development need prioritisation. It is anticipated that students will produce publishable work and that successive projects will produce a comprehensive paper that will be submitted for publication jointly by the NLH and UoP. It is anticipated that diets will be manufactured utilising the facilities at the
Do you want to apply?
If this is of interest to you then please email
Email: dom.boothroyd@nationallobsterhatchery.co.uk
Phone: 01841 533 877
Web: www.nationallobsterhatchery.co.uk
