Shona Whelan, first year PhD candidate in English, has been awarded Newnham College’s Wood-Whistler Medal and Scholarship for postgraduate students in the humanities. The prize, worth £3000, was given for her essay on the fiction of Mary Wollstonecraft as moral philosophy. The panel of assessors praised Shona’s work as ‘a superb piece of scholarship that manages to offer a fresh perspective on one of the mothers of European feminism’. Shona’s doctorate—on care ethics in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Mary Hays and Mary Robinson—is funded by an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP – Newnham College Studentship.