Handbury Fellowship Recipients Announced

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Handbury Fellowship recipients announced


The Helen and Geoff Handbury Fellowship has announced recipients who will

share up to $60,000 this year in awards for new community research projects

improving the quality of life in western Victoria.


Projects funded this year include:



Positive Parenting Pupil Participation, submitted by Denise Fenwick,

Principal at George Street Primary School, Hamilton. This project, also

involving RMIT University and Southern Grampians Adult Education, will

explore strategies that would enable sustainable engagement and learning

opportunities for parents at the school while creating supportive

environment for both parents and students.



Community Heritage Collections: A Regional Development Resource,

submitted by Pam Enting from Heritage Victoria. In collaboration with

Western Victorian Historical Societies and RMIT, she will recommend how

custodians of community heritage collections can form new collaborations

and partnerships.


The Fellowships selection panels consist of three university senior-level

researchers and three community representatives. Coralie Coulson and Reverend

Peter Cook said: “We enjoyed the capacity to find out the next level of detail

involved in a project and being able to support a valuable community initiative.”  


Dr Yaso Nadarajah, Chief Executive Officer of the Fellowship Program, said each

round of applications reinforced the fact that this program reached those who might

otherwise not have such an opportunity to work on an idea. “And they are given an

opportunity to take that idea forward in a supported and structured way,” she said. 


Professor Kim Humphrey said the Fellowships were an excellent initiative, with “the

2009 winners are to undertake projects that will be of great value to their

communities – and that is the beauty of this scheme, it’s not just about the

recipients gaining an award, but about community benefit and collaborative effort”.


The Helen and Geoff Handbury Fellowship, made possible with the support of

Helen and Geoff Handbury, is supported and funded by the Federal Government

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). 


The biennial Handbury Celebrations will be held on 1 December at the Hamilton

Institute of Rural Learning, hosted by RMIT’s Globalism Research Institute and

Geoff Handbury, Hamilton. For more information on the Fellowships, call (03) 9924

3542 or visit www.communitysustainability.info/assresearch/handbury.html 


For interviews or further detail: Dr Yaso Nadarajah, RMIT Globalism Institute,

(03) 9925 3542. For general media enquiries: RMIT University

Communications, David Glanz, (03) 9925 2807 or 0438 547 723.

10 November, 2009   






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