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Latest NewsTo view some feedback from Fellows in post, please visit our Feedback page Download a copy of the Fellowship Scheme booklet 2007 Fellowship Scheme AlumniOur directory of alumni is now online. If you are an ex-Fellow and wish to update us of your details, please email us at fellows@odi.org.uk Applying to the Fellowship SchemeElise McAuley (ODI Fellow, PNG, 2004-06) recounts her decision to embark on a Fellowship ‘I was a second year undergraduate studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, Romilly Greenhill (at that time fresh from her Ugandan experience) had made a brief presentation at the Alternative Careers Fair, and such was my first impression of the ODI Fellowship scheme. I don’t think I thought too much more about it at the time; I have always been interested in adventure and deeply moved by the massive inequality in human existence that strikes anyone who has the opportunity to travel in the developing world, but a “career in development” per se is not what I thought I was looking for. Upon graduation I returned Asia to work in Beijing for a year and then enrolled at the School of Oriental and African studies in London for an MSc in Development Economics, but the idea of gaining “work experience” or a “demonstrable interest in development” (or for that matter satisfying any other of the criteria for selection as a fellow) probably could not have been further from my mind. Three years on from that day at the Careers Fair and I am now about to embark on a fellowship posting with the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Papua New Guinea. When the time came to ‘join the real world’ after 18 years of full time education, I covered my bases and applied to a number of corporate graduate programmes as well, but knew as soon as I was accepted by the ODI that this is just too good an opportunity to let pass. The posting to the Pacific was a little unexpected, but the more I learn about my new home, its incredible biodiversity and the plethora of developmental challenges that the region faces, the more I look forward to getting out there and being a part of it myself.’ Elise McAuley, ODI Fellow 2004-06, Ministry of Trade and Industry, PNG Fellowship Scheme Ruby JubileeIn 2003, the Fellowhip Scheme celebrated its fortieth anniversary. An event was held to celebrate the occasion in the House of Commons in July. The speeches from the event can be downloaded as pdfs here.
Fellowship 40th Anniversary Speeches
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