Previous Scholarship Winners

CAROLYN ALLPORT SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS 2014 – 2022

2022 – Carolyn Allport Scholarship – Tonia Chalk – Griffith University

Tonia’s PhD is a study of coronial investigations into eleven suspicious Aboriginal female deaths in Queensland during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The project explores the settler colonial landscape of Queensland with an interest in the disclosures of social histories, social relations, imaginaries, as well as the impacts of laws.

2021 – Carolyn Allport Scholarship – Kylie Wrigley – Edith Cowan University

Kylie’s PhD study entails a research collaboration with the Climate Justice Union of Western Australia using informed Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR). The study aims to create community-led and place-based knowledge and action to develop scalable, replicable and effective actions for climate justice.

2020 – Carolyn Allport Scholarship – Sara Ranatunge – Victoria University

Sara is undertaking a PhD exploring the impact of the Victorian Government’s Free TAFE initiative in empowering socio-economically disadvantaged women who completed a Certificate III or IV in Education Support.

2019 – Carolyn Allport Scholarship – Beth Muldoon – La Trobe University

Beth is an historian and teacher in her second year of a part-time PhD. Her research explores the political activism of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women within the Black Movement in Redfern, Sydney.

2018 – Carolyn Allport Scholarship – Evonne Irwin – University of Newcastle

In her PhD, she aims to investigate how inhabiting an occupational role that crosses academic and non-academic domains in higher education influences the way work is experienced and gendered in what is described as the ‘third space’.

2017 – Carolyn Allport Scholarship – Jodie Kell – University of Sydney

Jodie is doing a PhD in ethnomusicology at the Conservatorium of Music.

2016 – Carolyn Allport Scholarship – Lobna Yassine – University of Sydney

Lobna is doing a PhD in social work and her research applies a feminist approach to policy analysis to interrogate juvenile justice policies and practice in NSW.

2015 – Carolyn Allport Scholarship – Olga Garcia Caro – RMIT

Olga’s PhD explores experiences of women service providers and interpreters in domestic violence service settings in Australia.

2014 – Carolyn Allport Scholarship – Julija Knezevic – RMIT

Julija is a PhD student at RMIT undertaking an exploratory study into the professional occupation of interpreters employed as temporary agency (haken) workers in Japan.

JOAN HARDY SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS 2008 – 2022

2022 – Joan Hardy Scholarship – Libby Muir – Melbourne University

Libby’s Master of Philosophy explores ways in which employment models, including the Registered Undergraduate Student of Nursing (RUSON) influence a graduate’s transition to nursing.

2021 – Joan Hardy scholarship – Geraldine Fela – Monash University

Geraldine’s PhD study examines the response of nurses in Australia to the HIV and AIDS virus between 1983 and 1996; 1983 being the first recorded AIDS related death in Australia and 1996 the introduction of effective treatment, Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART).

2020 – Joan Hardy Scholarship – Sonja Dawson – University of Technology, Sydney

Sonja’s PhD thesis is an ethnographic study of humanitarian (non-disaster) nursing and nursing practice on hospital ships.

2019 – Joan Hardy scholarship – Sharon James – University of Wollongong

Sharon’s PhD thesis explores the general practice nurse (GPN)-to-patient communications processes about lifestyle risks and chronic disease management.

2018 – Joan Hardy Scholarship – Samantha Petric – University of Notre Dame

Samantha’s Master of Philosophy thesis investigates the levels of commitment and readiness towards cultural safety within schools of nursing in Australian universities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics, students and supporters.

2017 – Joan Hardy Scholarship – Jessica Taranto – Deakin University

Jessica’s Masters of Nursing Practice thesis is investigating parents and carers experience of family-centred care during an extended stay in the recovery room at The Royal Children’s Hospital.

2016 – Joan Hardy Scholarship – Karen Cheer – James Cook UNiversity

Karen’s PhD is a study of how midwifery students at a university in Papua New Guinea understand, experience and manage the provision of care to women following stillbirth.

2015 – Joan Hardy Scholarship – Katrina Recoche – Monash University

Katrina’s PhD is a study of palliative care for homeless and disenfranchised persons in Australia, with a focus on policies, documents and discourses that facilitate or act as barriers to service access.

2013 – Joan Hardy Scholarship – Irene Kafka – Murdoch University

Irene’s PhD thesis is researching the impact of resettlement experiences on the mental health of African migrants to Western Australia and an evaluation of current support services.

2009 – Joan Hardy Scholarship – Judith Anderson – Charles Sturt University

Judith’s PhD study is undertaking a qualitative review of the change which occurs in small rural health services during mergers.

2008 – Joan Hardy Scholarship – Gabrielle Davie – Murdoch University

Gabrielle’s PhD uses a qualitative critical ethnographic method to explore the attitudes of first year nursing students aged 17-25 years towards the elderly.