{"id":355,"date":"2011-11-18T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T13:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=355"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:05:41","slug":"student-wins-vanessa-cotton-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2011\/11\/18\/student-wins-vanessa-cotton-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Student wins Vanessa Cotton Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_356\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/11\/Vanessa-Cotton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-356\" class=\" wp-image-356\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/11\/Vanessa-Cotton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Vanessa Cotton, who the scholarship is named after<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/dominique-dashwood-evans\/26\/234\/312\" target=\"_blank\">Dominique Dashwood-Evans<\/a>, a final year Hospitality student, has won the Vanessa Cotton Scholarship to attend the European Meetings &amp; Events Conference 2012 in Budapest, Hungary from the 29-31 January.<\/p>\n<p>She has had a beamingly successful past year, having just completed a highly desirable placement year with catering company CH&amp;Co which led her fortunately to be paired with mentor Peter Haigh who suggested she applied for the scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinding out I had won was a huge surprise, I was not expecting it at all but it was fantastic news and I will now make sure I make the most of this amazing opportunity. I would like to thank my three referees who helped me to win this award, Simon Thomas, Natalie Mainwaring (CH&amp;Co) and of course, my mentor Peter Haigh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dominique is grateful not only for the bursary which will fund her travel to the conference in Budapest, but being given the opportunity to hone her public speaking skills,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttending this conference will provide me with the opportunity to develop a more professional presentation building my confidence for future occasions. It will also prove invaluable for my dissertation which looks into &#8216;how social media can influence the decision making of events bookers&#8217; as social media is a topic which will be covered in the specific interest sessions at the conference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominique Dashwood-Evans, a final year Hospitality student, has won the Vanessa Cotton Scholarship to attend the European Meetings &amp; Events Conference 2012 in Budapest, Hungary from the 29-31 January. She has had a beamingly successful past year, having just completed a highly desirable placement year with catering company CH&amp;Co which led her fortunately to be&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2011\/11\/18\/student-wins-vanessa-cotton-scholarship\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Student wins Vanessa Cotton Scholarship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[42,57,149],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dominique-dashwood-evans","tag-european-meetings-events-conference-2012-in-budapest","tag-vanessa-cotton-schorlarship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}