The Graduate Women Manawatū Scholarships Luncheon is a highlight on our annual programme of events. Held on Saturday 22 June 2024, the luncheon provided an opportunity to celebrate our awardees, join with their whanau and academic advisors, along with members of the branch and Charitable Trust board; while also being inspired by our guest speaker, Ellen Joan Ford. The breadth of research being undertaken by the Massey scholars was exciting; a wonderful mix of academic excellence, thinking and advocacy; while enabling folk to connect over lunch. Well done to those who organised the event.
The awardees include:
- Alice Thompson - media's impact on sleep expectations and behaviours in pregnant women
- Ashley Barea - experiences adolescents have with unhealthy or disordered eating behaviours
- Belinda Whitta - how alternative and sustainable photographic processes can represent the earth, and facilitate the earth to represent itself
- Catherine Dawson - investigating own familial histories to challenge Eurocentric patriarchal narratives of genealogy and to then reimagine and rewrite the women's narrative with a series of paintings
- Dawn Wilce - using art to explore the complex relationship between fact and fiction
- Glenda Roberts - taking a gender lens to understanding the rights of nature for indigenous Australian communities in order to inform how we might do development differently
- Harpreet Kaur - within the context of climate change, developing insights from farmers and experts of rural Punjab, India; to explore factors that affect our ability to transform our agriculture practices
- Lydia Tomic - investigating how Adventure Therapy can be used to support rangatahi experiencing distress to support long term therapeutic outcomes
- Nicola Easthope - a comparative analysis of the way five Pakeha/Tauiwi poets write about their connections to land, tangata whenua and their own ancestry.
- Peti Waaka - Kaupapa-Māori research in public health, Māori mental health and gambling harm outcomes on context to Indigenous rights.
- Sara Mole - empowering citizens within local authority decision making while enhancing informed views on critical social issues
- Vicki Gifkins - exploring gender diversity in Aotearoa early childhood education
The Massey University Post-Graduate Scholarships are sponsored by Graduate Women Manawatū Charitable Trust.
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