01 - 04 - 2022
Join us for this week's roundup of inspiring Scholar news...
Gallipoli commemoration event
In Turkey, the events around Gallipoli are remembered annually on March 18 as Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs’ Day. Jonty Coy, 2020 Gandel Philanthropy John Monash Scholar (Arts) has marked this event with a performance of a new work written by a Turkish composer, telling the story of Gallipoli. Jonty performed in an orchestra mainly consisting of Turkish musicians, with the special invitation of 20 Australian musicians. The concert audience included the Australian Consulate-General in Istanbul. Jonty is in the process of concluding his studies at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague and is currently rehearsing for multiple performances across Europe.
Behavioural economics, a conversation with BHP
BHP recently hosted a webinar: Breaking bias with data – a conversation with Dr David Smerdon, 2011 John Monash Scholar. David is a lecturer at the University of Queensland’s School of Economics. He spoke with Fiona Vines, Head of Inclusion and Diversity and Workforce Transition at BHP. Over100 guests tuned in for this webinar which discussed how a combination of data experiments and behavioural economics can help identify and interrupt bias. Watch an excerpt from this enlightening discussion here.
SEREDA International Report Launch
SEREDA is hosting an online launch event on Wednesday the 13th of April. Among the panellists is Dr Cathy Vaughan, 2005 John Monash Scholar and Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health. The SEREDA Project (Sexual and gender-based violence against Refugees: Experiences from Displacement to Arrival) is a major research initiative being undertaken by a multi-country research team including the University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Birmingham (UK) Uppsala University (Sweden) and Bilkent University (Turkey). The project examines how the health and social consequences of sexual and gender-based violence are identified and treated, and how they shape inequalities of life chances in different countries of refuge. Learn more and register for the event here.
Taking science out of the lab and into the world
Marianne Haines, 2018 Origin Foundation John Monash Scholar is currently completing her PhD in Microbiology at the University of Calgary, Canada. Calgary is Canada’s largest oil and gas province where many residents' livelihoods are based in the fossil-fuel industry. Marianne has spoken about Calgary as the perfect place to research how new sustainable, low carbon production platforms can be integrated into society, particularly since the local Calgary government has declared the city to be in a state of climate emergency. Read the full story on our website.
John Monash Scholars in London
Many thanks to Dr Prashanti Manchikanti, 2020 Helen and Michael Gannon John Monash Scholar for organising a catch up for the Scholars currently based in London. In attendance (from left to right) was Daniel Yore, Ahmad Shah Idil, Dr Mark Chia, Emma McIntosh, Dr Prashanti Manchikanti, Dr Brendan Jones, Lauren Bennett, Fergus Green, Hugh Utting and Martin Seneviratne.
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