My Chever Journey

Our Chevening year is ending, so we find time in the middle of packing up our things to record this episode of unpacking our feelings about the year that was.

We dedicate one whole episode about our biggest frustration as Filipinos: public transport. We talk to Iya, our Chevening batchmate taking transport planning in Leeds. We also rant against British mangoes! 😂

In this episode, Cel talks to us about health data, traveling in Europe, and her own Chevening journey. Plus, we discuss the stipend each scholar receives in the course of their studies and whether it is enough to sustain them (spoiler alert: it probably isn't!).

On this week's chever: Sam Tamayo and Mark Chan were both from UP but never met & would have probably never been friends. But in London they are flatmates and UCL mates, bonded by the city's curiosities and clarities at the same time, all at once.

Shairra co-founded the first and only behavioral design company in the Philippines. In this episode, she talks about that, her way of decolonizing behavioral science while in Durham, and the way to change your behavior if you have a crush, chever lang!!!

You asked, we answered. Chevening interviews are underway, so Lian and Yong have some last minute tips for those who are shortlisted. Plus, they answer all listener questions and reflect on their 6-month journey.

Playwright and novelist @RogelioBraga is a refugee in the UK after being granted asylum due to harassment and threats during the Duterte rule. In their forced migration, they are looking how their present identity intersect with the past.

Trigger warning: state repression, threats of violence.

Get to know Regine Cabato (@reginecabato), Washington Post's Manila reporter and her chevers that got her to the Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism in Oxford. Reg wants to stress that it's a fellowship and not a degree as she does not want to misrepresent her Oxford link. 😉

Ham's pronoun is "siya," a way to decolonialize queer rights by sticking to the gender-neutral Filipino pronouns. Listen to Ham's SOGIE and feminist chevers, and why public bathrooms are one of our favorite things about the UK.

She's a mother, she's a wife, she's a judge, and in Cambridge she's a student. She's a woman. For this week's episode, we're excited for you to get to know Judge Rocelyn Lim-Guillano on her chevers on meaningful justice, inside and outside the courtroom.