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“Without this support I would have needed to get a job alongside my studies, and because I have fibromyalgia and ME it would have been too exhausting and hard,” says second-year Gibbons Gold Scholar Gracie Stavers, who won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the upReach Student Mobility Awards, as well as the Edinburgh Women in Space Conference essay competition – which was open to both undergraduates and postgraduates.
“I’m in such a better place than I otherwise would have been. I have so much to put on my CV as I start to look for placements, which is something I was worried about.”