25.07.06
Photography graduate wins internship with leading international sport diving magazine

The Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society (OWUSS) has awarded University College Falmouth's BA(Hons) Photography graduate, Lucy McNally, a once-in-a-life time opportunity to work with Sport Diver magazine and a $1000 grant to support her during the internship.

The US based Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society was founded over thirty years ago to offer a variety of scholarships and internships to graduates whose skills would be of benefit to the ongoing preservation of the global marine environment. OWUSS hopes that their 2006 summer internships will help promising graduates like Lucy McNally develop their marine based skills.

Lucy succeeded over her graduating competitors from around the globe in winning the Sport Diver Magazine Publishing Internship. Sport Diver is the official magazine of the PADI Diving Society, featuring articles on travel, scuba diving and the marine environment. Lucy will travel to the beautiful Winter Park, Florida this month where she will support a complete six week publishing cycle of Sport Diver magazine.

"This is another fantastic career step in the right direction for me," says Lucy. "The Sport Diver internship will allow me to get valuable hands-on experience in publishing, editing, writing and most of all photography, with an internationally renowned diving publication."

Lucy, a PADI trained Dive Master, intends to stay in America until October in the hope of extending her placement with Sport Diver, securing freelance photography projects and taking full advantage of the beautiful Florida Keys. "As long as I continue to focus on the tasks ahead I can only hope that more opportunities will come my way and that my capabilities as a photographer will be challenged on a daily basis," she adds. "I love the beauty, wonder and adventure of the ocean. This is a dream come true."

"This award is a remarkable achievement for Lucy," adds BA(Hons) Photography Course Leader, David Matthews. "Our photography courses are specifically designed to help foster the individual creative interests of our students and to furnish them with the skills to forge successful careers in their chosen area of photography. We wish Lucy luck with her marine photography aspirations."

Lucy's evident love for all things marine-based partially explains why she chose University College Falmouth to study photography. Falmouth has a rich and colourful maritime history, a thriving port and a bay that is protected under national and European law as one of Europe's top marine sites. Falmouth Bay is also famous for the Manacles Reef which boasts underwater cliffs and pinnacles, shipwrecks, seagrass meadows and beds of pink calcified seaweed – Cornwall's very own coral reef.

University College Falmouth has more than 10 years' experience in teaching underwater photography and has its own Falmouth Underwater Photography Centre. Adding to its industry-acclaimed undergraduate course in photography, University College Falmouth will launch new degree courses in Marine & Natural History Photography and Press Photography in September 2007, which will be based in new custom-built facilities at the Tremough Campus.

University College Falmouth is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through higher education. The CUC is funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

For further information please contact Jilly Easterby at University College Falmouth on 01326 2110777 or email jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk.

The Objective One Programme for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has invested in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) project, both Phase 1 and Phase 2 through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF). University College Falmouth is a partner in the CUC.

Editor's notes:

Clare Morgan
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