Finally, we are pleased to announce this year's successful candidates for the Thames Water Scholarship grant to assist young Turkish archaeologists. Adnan Baysal has been awarded his third year fees for his part time PhD at the University of Liverpool on ground stone analyses. Başak Boz was awarded a grant towards her studies at Hacetepe University, Ankara where she is studying tooth wear analyses. Eylem Özdoğan and Nurcan Kayacan from Istanbul University are funded to attend English courses in the UK to help them towards their PhD programmes, and Nurcan Yalman was supported for her fieldwork in Ethnoarchaeology, which is towards her PhD programme at Istanbul University.