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2009 Timor Leste Scholarship Recipients
Sincere thanks to Ms Ana Maria da Costa Noronha, lecturer in the Faculty, for overseeing such an effective and thorough process. This included an extremely impressive presentation ceremony, attended by crowds of students and staff. We would also like to commend the applicants for the effort they had obviously put into their applications. It was heart-warming to read such wonderful hopes and aspirations for the future work these women hope to achieve for their country. We, and the Faculty of Agriculture, hope this will be a long term relationship between AFUW NT and women, staff and students at UNTL – thanks to our work at graduation ceremonies and generous donors to Dr Valerie Asche Scholarship Fund!
Annette Dougall (left) and Kerin Coulehan (Right) Annette Dougall, a PhD student at Charles Darwin University - Menzies School of Health Research, is awarded a 2009 AFUW NT Postgraduate Scholarship for her research into the lifecycle of Leishmania, a parasite that causes leishmaniasis, a disease known to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in underdeveloped countries. In 2003, Leishmania and associated disease was discovered in captive Red Kangaroos in the Northern Territory. Annette’s research, which breaks new ground at Menzies, contributes original knowledge of significance to public and wildlife health in Australia and elsewhere in the world. Frances Every, a PhD student enrolled at Charles Darwin University in the School of Environmental Research, is awarded a Postgraduate Scholarship for her research into the ‘livelihood pursuits of the fishing villages of Wuring and Nangahure, Flores Island, Eastern Indonesia’. The links between the livelihood of poor fishing communities in Indonesia and illegal fishing in Australian waters is an issue of concern to Indonesian and Australian governments. Frances will undertake ethnographic field research to investigate alternative livelihood projects in poor fishing communities on Flores. The 2009 AFUW NT Undergraduate Scholarship & Indigenous Scholarship recipients are:
Lisa Wills (left) and Kerin Coulehan (right) Lisa Wills, a student in her 3rd year in the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree offered by the Faculty of Education, Health and Science at Charles Darwin University, is awarded an AFUW NT Undergraduate Scholarship for 2009. Lisa has excelled in her studies, participated in science research projects on campus, and received a 2007 Dean’s Citation (The Future Scientists Award) for her contribution to science education in the wider community.
Kerin Coulehan (left) and Jariah Kaissis (right) Jariah Kaissis is awarded the AFUW NT Indigenous Scholarship for 2009. In her 3rd year of the Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences offered by the Faculty of Education, Health & Science at Charles Darwin University, Jariah has distinguished herself in her studies, and plans to take Honours in 2010. Ms Kaissis holds an Indigenous cadetship and is active in the university’s Indigenous Student Ambassador Program. See News Room article1 and News Room article 2 Julie Turner (Education) was the recipient of the Indigenous Undergraduate Scholarship in 2008
Julie Turner (left) and Helen Haritos (right) Jacinta Kelly (Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Science) was awarded the 2008 Undergraduate Scholarship
Helen Haritos (left) and Jacinta Kelly (right) Pia Harrison (Education) was awarded the 2007 Undergraduate scholarship. Pia is passionate about music education and community involvement in music education. Pia was our first Alice Springs based recipient, and received her award from Dr Christine Schlesinger. Click on the link to view Pia Harrison's scholarship report.
Pia (right) received her award from Dr Christine Schlesinger (left). 2007 Timor Leste Scholarship Recipients Kitty Kahn, long term AFUW NT member and working in Dili, was on hand to present the 2007 winners with their scholarships at a small ceremony on campus at the National University of Timor Leste (UNTL) attended by Faculty staff Marcolino Estevao Fernandes e Brito and Yuliaty Brito, and the UNTL Rector Dr Benjamim de Araujo e Corte-Real. The scholarship recipients Joaquina da Costa Barreto, Elsa Araujo Pinto and Josefina Soares, are all senior students in the Faculty of Agriculture.
Back – Marcolino Estevao Fernandes
e Brito, Kitty Kahn, Dr Benjamim de Araujo e Corte-Real Simone Liddy was awarded the 2007 Indigenous Undergraduate scholarship. Simone is an outstanding Pharmacy student who won several awards during the year, including NT Young Australian of the Year. Simone also took part in the 2007 National Day of Healing. Simone is also an enthusiastic sportswoman and is undergraduate representative on Charles Darwin University Council .
L-R: Helen Haritos, Simone Liddy, Christine Silvester Patricia Puig, a PhD student (Anthropology), at Charles Darwin University was awarded the AFUW-NT Postgraduate Scholarship in 2003. Her thesis topic is "Picking up the Threads of their Lives: an Ethnography of Tutuala East Timor". Patricia is photographed (below) sitting with two women of Tutuala, a Fataluku village in the extreme east of East Timor. Patricia’s research took place during a period of great change marked by the Indonesian departure, successive United Nations missions and finally self-government. By living in the village and sharing their daily activities she was able to record past events but also thoughts on the present and aspirations for the future. The resulting "Picking up the Threads of their Lives: an Ethnography of Tutuala East Timor" will provide a social history of Tutuala and its women.
Andrea Koch
Andrea Koch is in her second year of her PhD, studying sea turtle nesting dynamics. Due to their complex ecology, widespread dispersal and migratory behaviour, monitoring sea turtle populations is not simple and it is often logistically impossible to investigate all life stages. However, well-designed studies on reproductive females on nesting beaches can be important in determining long-term trends of abundance. Andrea is working on cost-effective techniques for monitoring sea turtles with long nesting seasons. Andrea is based in Darwin and works on two main study sites. She works on a long-term monitoring flatback turtles on Bare Sand Island, 50 km west of Darwin; and is also establishing a new monitoring program for flatback turtles on Cape Domett, East Kimberley WA. Andrea recently presented this work to an international audience at a conference in Crete, Greece.
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