An Anglia Ruskin University student is busily making travel plans after winning a prestigious scholarship award run by a national nursing charity.

Elizabeth Blamire, who is in the second year of a BSc (Hons) in Midwifery at Anglia Ruskin's Fulbourn campus, has been judged the winner in the Academic Achievement category of the 2012/13 Cavell Nurses' Trust Scholarship Awards.

She is now looking to make travel arrangements, which could include visiting a remote hospital in India, after winning a travel scholarship to the value of £1,500.

Elizabeth was one of 22 candidates, including two other Anglia Ruskin students, to be shortlisted for the five awards. Interviews were carried out by a judging panel made up of prestigious and experienced nursing and midwifery individuals on February 8 in London.

She will now be presented with her prize during an awards ceremony at Fishmongers Hall, London, on March 21.

Elizabeth previously obtained a Development Studies and History degree from the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, before working in content management for a large educational website. She also spent several years as a volunteer breastfeeding counsellor with the National Childbirth Trust.

Cavell Nurses' Trust, set up in memory of World War I nurse Edith Cavell following her execution in 1915, launched the Scholarship Awards last year with the aim of recognising exceptional student nurses and midwives in the UK.

The awards are designed to help nursing and midwifery students at the start of their careers and are open to students currently studying nursing or midwifery on undergraduate/postgraduate or diploma courses at universities in the UK.

Judges praised the quality of shortlisted candidates. Susan Simmons, a former director of nursing and now an independent healthcare advisor and consultant, said: "The standard of candidates was very impressive and almost all of them made comments that were really grounded in practice, such as basic care and compassion. It was a very hard decision for the judges."

Cavell trustee Jill Cox, a former nurse and former chief executive of a mental health trust, added: "I really appreciated hearing the students describe how they had worked with, and cared for, their patients."