Supporting a PhD student at King’s College London over 3 years starting in Autumn 2022
Alan Davidson Foundation is delighted to support a PhD student at King’s College London over 3 years starting in Autumn 2022. Part of Dr Jemeen Sreedharan’s team, Leon will focus his research on TDP-43, a complex DNA and RNA binding protein central to the development of MND. The Foundation has funded neuroscience research at the […]
The Davidson Prize returns for 2022 with a new theme: “Co-Living, a new future?”
The second annual prize for thought-provoking ideas around the design of the home will be awarded in June 2022. Co-living already exists in many forms, from student accommodation, diverse family networks, retirement communities, artist collectives and more. We had the pandemic, which inspired the 2021 theme, – now we are looking at the reported loneliness […]
£210,000 awarded to the University of Oxford for the Making MND Preventable research project
In November 2021 the Foundation awarded a gift of £210,000 (£70,000 per year for three years) to the University of Oxford for the Making MND Preventable research project. The funds will allow them to recruit a skilled Project Manager and cover the initial start-up costs needed to establish the national UK cohort of ‘at risk’ […]
The Foundation hosts a ceremony celebrating the finalists and winners of The Davidson Prize 2021
During a brief Covid respite, the Alan Davidson Foundation had the pleasure to host a ceremony to celebrate the finalists and winning teams of the 2021 Davidson Prize, showcase the submissions and hand-over well deserved trophies. The event, organised by the prize PR team at Caro Communications, was held at the SCP East furniture store […]
£5,000 of funds allocated to help Scottish Huntington’s Association run their important work
In November 2021, the Alan Davidson Foundation awarded £5,000 of unrestricted funds to help Scottish Huntington’s Association run their important work in Scotland. Scottish Huntington’s Association (SHA) was established over 30 years ago by families and has grown into an extensive Scotland-wide network of specialist clinical services, financial wellbeing support and youth services. Huntington’s disease […]
The Foundation awards £10,000 in recognition of St John’s Hospice in offering palliative care
In recognition of the important work St John’s Hospice is offering in palliative care, the Foundation is delighted to award £10,000 of unrestricted funds, as a yearly commitment. In recognition of the important work St John’s Hospice is offering in palliative care, the Foundation is delighted to award £10,000 of unrestricted funds, as a yearly […]
The Archiboo Awards 2021 ceremony was held at the Bureau in North Greenwich Design District
The Archiboo Awards have always been held in a new building of architectural interest, Bureau has been designed by HNNA with interiors by Roz Barr Architects. Other buildings in the District includes work by 6a Architects, David Kohn Architects and Mole Architects. The winner of the Alan Davidson Award for Storytelling was dn&co for their […]
The Foundation sets up The Alan Davidson Scholarship with the University of Kent
Alan was a great believer in education and one of his final wishes was to support a student through university to study architectural visualisation. The £10,000 scholarship is awarded annually to a home-student showing great promise and talent In September 2021, the foundation set up The Alan Davidson Scholarship with the University of Kent. The […]
Announcing The Davidson Prize 2021 Winner
This inaugural year saw entries of incredible high standards, which made the shortlisting and final judging very difficult but equally thrilling and inspiring. Congratulations to the winning team HomeForest. Winning team HomeForest Congratulations to the winning team HomeForest. Haptic Architects, Squint/Opera, Coda to Coda, LionHeart and Yaoyao Meng came together to produce the compelling and […]
Alan’s final wishes were to make one-off donations to these causes
One of Alan’s final wishes was to donate to The Long Now Foundation, Wikimedia and Electronic Frontier Foundation to support the initiatives that he greatly admired and supported. The Long Now Foundation One of Alan’s final wishes was to donate £10,000 to the Long Now Foundation to support their initiatives especially around the library project […]
