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POSTGRADUATE AWARDS

STUDENTS IN ALL FACULTIES

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ACHS James MacGinley Award

The Australian Catholic Historical Society, wishing to encourage serious study of Australian Catholic history, has established a History Award.

The award comprises:

·       A monetary prize of $400.

·       Consideration for publication of the winning entry in the ACHS Journal.

Eligibility          The Society invites entries from students enrolled at Australian universities and theological colleges offering accredited degree courses.

                         Students may be either graduate or undergraduate.

Prescribed assignment work could well form the basis of an entry.

The topic is to be directly on, or of relevance to, some aspect of Australian Catholic history. The submitted paper should not exceed 3000 words in length. Entries should conform to current academic requirements for bibliography and endnotes (or footnotes).

Each entrant should provide two copies of the paper, double-spaced and without the writer’s name; also a cover sheet giving his/her name and address, name of university, faculty of current enrolment, and degree in which enrolled. This cover sheet should be signed by a relevant member of the academic staff endorsing the eligibility of the writer as a student of the university/college.

Applications      Submissions should be forwarded to: ACHS James MacGinley Award, PO Box A621, Sydney South NSW 1235. Closing date is 15 November each year.

Further Info       Dr Lesley Hughes: L.Hughes@unsw.edu.au

Pratt Foundation Bursary

The Pratt Foundation (established in 1978 by Richard and Jeanne Pratt) is one of the largest private sources of philanthropy in Australia and makes available a bursary to a suitably qualified aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student undertaking postgraduate study at ACU National.

Eligibility          The Bursary is awarded on the basis of need and is made available to the indigenous student when enrolling in an appropriate postgraduate course at the University. The bursary is normally available for the duration of the course, subject to the student’s progress each year being judged as satisfactory by the Bursary Committee.

Value                           Current annual value is $2,500. In any year the Bursary Committee may decide to award a Bursary of less than this amount.

Applications    should be made to the Bursary Committee on the form available from the Weemala Indigenous Unit. The form requires details of the course and units of planned study and the year(s) in which it is proposed to complete them, and an outline of circumstances for the purposes of assessing need (these details will remain confidential to the Bursary Committee).

                        Closing date for applications is 30 September in the year prior to the proposed year of study.

                        Applications should be marked Confidential and addressed to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Quality and Outreach), Australian Catholic University, PO Box 456, Virginia, QLD 4014.

Further info      Contact Nereda White, Coordinator, Weemala Indigenous Unit, Brisbane.

Wexford Senate Bursary

The Wexford Senate, established in 1998, is a forum of the great Irish family, ie the citizens of Ireland and citizens of Irish descent in all those countries to which the Irish have migrated over the years. The Australian members of the Senate make available a Bursary to support a suitably qualified Indigenous student undertaking postgraduate study at ACU National. The specific goal is the development of skills of emerging leaders of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities through professional preparation at postgraduate level.

Eligibility         The Bursary is awarded on the basis of need and is made available to the Indigenous student when enrolling in a postgraduate course at the University. The Bursary is normally available for the duration of the course, subject to the student’s progress each year being judged as satisfactory by the Bursary Committee.

Value                           Current annual value is a maximum of $3,000. In any year the Bursary Committee may decide to award a Bursary of less than this amount.

Applications    should be made to the Bursary Committee on the form available from the Weemala Indigenous Unit. The form requires details of the course and units of planned study and the year(s) in which it is proposed to complete them, and an outline of circumstances for the purposes of assessing need (these details will remain confidential to the Bursary Committee).

                        Closing date for applications is 30 September in the year prior to the proposed year of study.

                        Applications should be marked Confidential and addressed to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Quality and Outreach), Australian Catholic University, PO Box 456, Virginia, QLD 4014.

Further info      Contact Nereda White, Coordinator, Weemala Indigenous Unit, Brisbane.