The Graduate Women SA Trust Inc has awarded $27,000 in scholarships and prizes in 2024.
Graduate Women SA Doctoral Scholarships
Awards for women undertaking doctorate degrees by research at South Australian universities
- Ms Jessica de la Perrelle – $6,000
- Ms Alexandra Procter – $6,000
- Ms Susan Witt – $6,000
- Ms Mingyue Liu – $2,000
Graduate Women SA Masters Scholarships
Awards for women undertaking masters degrees by research or including a thesis component at South Australian universities
- Ms Hannah Doyle – $3,000
- Ms Meghan Zadow – $3,000
Maria Lane Aboriginal Education Prize
Award for an indigenous woman of outstanding academic merit studying in Education at the University of South Australia (Paid for privately in 2024)
- Ms Ashley Ellis – $500
- Ms Skye Doudle – $500
Nancy Webb Prize in Mathematics
Award for a woman of outstanding academic merit in the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide, in the final year of her Bachelor degree
- Kristen Coles – $1,000
Graduate Women SA Doctoral Scholarships
Awards for women undertaking doctorate degrees by research at South Australian universities
- Ms Jessica de la Perrelle – $6,000
- Ms Alexandra Procter – $6,000
- Ms Susan Witt – $6,000
- Ms Mingyue Liu – $2,000
Graduate Women SA Masters Scholarships
Awards for women undertaking masters degrees by research or including a thesis component at South Australian universities
- Ms Hannah Doyle – $3,000
- Ms Meghan Zadow – $3,000
Maria Lane Aboriginal Education Prize
Award for an indigenous woman of outstanding academic merit studying in Education at the University of South Australia (Paid for privately in 2024)
- Ms Ashley Ellis – $500
- Ms Skye Doudle – $500
Nancy Webb Prize in Mathematics
Award for a woman of outstanding academic merit in the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide, in the final year of her Bachelor degree
- Kristen Coles – $1,000
Win Preedy Prize in Dentistry
Award for a woman studying undergraduate Dentistry at the University of Adelaide
- Not awarded in 2024
Graduate Women SA, Adelaide University Post-Doctorial Scholarship ($5000)
Dr Larissa Arakawa Martins PhD
School of Architecture and Built Environment
College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities
The Graduate Women SA Trust (GWSA Trust) Postdoctoral Grant 2024 was essential to Larissa’s recent career development as an Early Career Researcher. It allowed Larissa to communicate and translate her research on environmental quality and housing for older South Australians to a broad and international audience at the Comfort at the Extremes Conference in Spain. With a focus on well-being and the built environment in the context of climate change, the event was key to her establishing new global connections and collaborations linked to the topics she is most passionate about.
Dr Alison Gill PhD
ARC CoE in Plants for Space
Dr Gill’s research explores plant physiological responses to abiotic stress and investigates how photosynthesis can be optimised for future climates and controlled environments. She is part of the Lunar Effects on Agricultural Flora (LEAF) Artemis III deployed instrument team, working with NASA and US collaborators to grow plants on the lunar surface. The GWSA postdoctoral grant enabled Dr Gill to attend a hands-on photosynthesis and gas exchange workshop in Portugal in 2025, where she engaged with, and learnt from world leaders in these areas. This opportunity is already strengthening her current research on duckweed temperature tolerance and carbon assimilation.
Dr Brianna Poirier PhD
Adjunct Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Dentistry, College of Health
Dr. Brianna Poirier’s research focuses on structural and sociopolitical determinants of health and wellbeing. Through decolonial health research methods, her work seeks to critically examine how colonialism, racism, and neoliberalism shape health outcomes. In collaboration with Indigenous Communities, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, Brianna works to develop and evaluate sustainable solutions to Community-identified challenges.
Dr Claire Harris, PhD
Research Fellow, School of Society and Culture, College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
L-R Dr Claire Harris, School of Social Sciences Adelaide University, with artist and Art Bus director, Miranda Harris, and Professor Megan Warin, School of Social Sciences, Adelaide University.
The GWSA Postdoctoral Grant supported anthropologist Dr Claire Harris to conduct 65 visual art workshops over ten months as part of her research engagement on a 3-year Australian Research Council Linkage project, Situating Care, and to learn about approaches to translating research across various platforms including exhibitions. This ARC project involved research with Family by Family, a community program recognised nationally and internationally as one of the most innovative approaches to assisting vulnerable families. Art workshops brought together Family by Family participants, researchers and artists in a unique collaboration that resulted in ‘Gestures of Care’, a six-week exhibition in 2025 at the Hawke Centre’s Kerry Packer Civic Gallery. Visited by almost 2000 people, ‘Gestures of Care’ was endorsed with a catalogue, and online platform. The exhibition will tour in 2026 to the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery.
2024 Applications were all of a very high standard. If your application was not selected, please try again next year.