Coronavirus pandemic means Provost Scholarship winner spent 2020 studying in solitude at Oxford University

In late 2019, 25-year-old Hannah Duffus was awarded the scholarship of a lifetime, one that would take her to Oxford University and see her living in Worcester College among 26 acres of wooded and landscaped grounds.

She was to spend a year studying harder than she ever had before, alongside hundreds of other young brilliant minds from all over the world.

But she ended up spending months on the abandoned grounds, studying alone.

For a self-described ‘nerd’ who loves the rigor of academic study, and grew up thousands of miles from Oxford, in the small Victorian town of Terang, being awarded the Provost Scholarship was a dream come…