|
Fellows Program
OzProspect's
core initiative is the Fellows program. The program is designed
to help outstanding individuals establish themselves as credible
voices in the nation’s public debate. Fellows, who receive a
stipend of up to $15,000, have typically shown great promise
writing for student, academic or popular publications but have
yet to establish themselves as leading commentators in the
public discourse.
A selection
of Fellows work is archived
here
For
information about applying to the Fellows program
click here
2004/05
Fellows
Madeleine
Byrne
Madeleine is a journalist with experience across the different
media: print, radio, online and TV. Her most recent position
was at SBS TV where she reported local and international news.
Previously, Madeleine worked at ABC Radio National where she
produced documentaries on topics as diverse as Morocco and Islam
and the provocative French novelist, Michel
Houellebecq.
Fluent in French, Madeleine specializes in European politics and
culture along with immigration-related issues, but has recently
published on Asia. In the mid-1990s, she spent a year working on
an Open Society Fund program in eastern Slovakia and later wrote
a book-length manuscript about the experience of post-communist
life. Her
articles have appeared in Australia's major literary magazines,
as well as The Guardian Weekly and New York journal,
Antipodes. As an OzProspect fellow, Madeleine intends to
write a book about the push to privatize prisons and immigration
detention facilities worldwide, in light of recent abuses in
Iraq. Email: byrne @ ozprospect.org
Sam Tormey
Sam’s
passion is for genetics and he has pursued the topic through
science, medicine and philosophy. As an OzProspect Fellow for
2004, he will explore the challenges that new human genetic
technologies pose to policy makers. His particular ambition is
that Australia have an open, intelligent and robust debate about
issues such as human cloning, stem cell and embryo research,
genetic testing and genetic databases. Important regulatory
decisions are looming, and with some stimulation he thinks that
Australia could become a leading example of democratic and open
regulation of human genetics. As a writer with an background in
sciences and medicine, he sees his main role as being a
facilitator of better public understanding and interest in the
new genetics. He is a medical doctor and has recently completed
a masters degree in bioethics. He has also worked as a policy
adviser to a federal senator on biotechnology issues, including
drafting successful amendments to the Research Involving Embryos
Bill 2002. His first major published essay, Making Perfect
Babies, can be found in Griffith Review, Winter 2004. Email:
sam @ ozprospect.org Tel: 0414 828 770
Priya
SaratChandran
Priya
is an Arts/Law honours graduate of the University of Melbourne.
She practised as a corporate lawyer in the area of
discrimination and employment law for five years, and recently
joined the Victorian Law Reform Commission where she works in
research and public policy. On a voluntary basis,
Priya is also convenor of Feminist
Lawyers, co convenor of the coalition Working Against Sexual
Harassment, is the general secretary of the Australia India
Society of Victoria and a member of the Legal & Social Justice
Sub committee of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria. Her
writing interests centre on multiculturalism and 'acceptable
difference', discrimination, harassment and vilification laws
and concepts of citizenship. Email: priya
@ ozprospect.org
Taimor Hazou
Taimor is an executive officer at the Ethnic Communities Council
of Victoria. As an OzProspect Fellow he will complete a range of
essays and columns on a themes including multiculturalism and
consultation in foreign policy. Email: Hazou @ ozprospect.org
Daniel
Donahoo
Daniel is a 27 year-old writer from Castlemaine where he lives
with his wife and two sons. He has worked in local and state
government across rural-regional development, disability and
early childhood and family policy. He has worked with a range of
management committees, including chair of the national youth
media organisation, Express Media. Daniel is interested in
improving the impact outcomes and learnings
from government funded initiatives can have on policy and making
the links between policy and practice more engaging. He
currently works for Disability Services and writes for a variety
of publications including The Age and
OnlineOpinion. Email: donahoo
@ ozprospect.org Tel: 0414 306 275
Emma Dawson
Emma is a graduate of La Trobe
University’s Arts & Media school, and is currently completing a
Masters degree in Media and Communications at Monash University,
examining the role of public broadcasting and independent media
in the development of Australian cultural identity. She has
worked as a Project Manager at SBS and is currently involved in
a range of community cultural development and
media/communications projects for Culturally And Linguistically
Diverse (CALD) communities within metropolitan Melbourne and
wider Victoria. Emma’s research and writing address issues of
cultural identity, multicultural arts practice and the
representation of “the other” in the Australian media. She has
been president of Women In Film and Television (WIFT) Victoria
(2001 – 2003) and currently serves on the board of
Melbourne-based youth arts and media organisation Express
Media. Email: dawson @
ozprospect.org
Oak
Foundation Fellow
The Oak
Foundation, a major US philanthropic trust, awarded Sydney-based
researcher Donna Green an OzProspect Fellowship in 2004 to
pursue her work in sustainable energy policy.
Donna Green
Donna has a PhD from the Energy and Resource Group, University
of
California, Berkeley. She has consulted for a range of
international inter-governmental environmental and development
organisations, and local non-governmental organisations in the
areas of energy and sustainable development in Southeast Asia.
She has published a number of articles on energy policy;
renewable energy technologies; and gender and technology policy.
Her current research work focuses on the issue of energy justice
in Australia. Email: dlgreen @
ozprospect.org
2003 Fellows
Georgina Costello
Georgina Costello became an
OzProspect fellow in 2003 when she received a grant to write
about people trafficking for sexual exploitation. She is a
Melbourne barrister as well as a freelance writer and researcher
in the area of migration, particularly human trafficking. She is
currently researching people trafficking in Europe and the USA
on a Winston Churchill scholarship. Her articles about migration
and trafficking have appeared in the Australian, the Herald Sun,
New Matilda, Eureka Street, Arena, Development Bulletin,
Interface and the Griffith Review. She has written several
submissions to Australian governments regarding people
trafficking law and policy reform, regularly delivers speeches
about trafficking for prostitution and has represented victims
of trafficking pro bono. In 2004, she coordinated research into
incidences of people trafficking in Australia which was provided
to the US State Department to inform their assessment of the
occurrence of people trafficking in Australia. In 2004 she
received the Law Institute of Victoria President's Award in the
New Lawyer category, the APRA award for best story by a new
non-professional writer and an RMIT award for research into
trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Email: costello @ ozprospect.org
Michael
Cebon Michael has an
Honours degree in Public Policy & Management from the University
of Melbourne. He has been an OzProspect research fellow since
2003, when he authored the report "The Australia-US Free Trade
Agreement: An Environmental Impact Assessment" for OzProspect. (Download
here) In 2005, Michael co-founded the Earth Policy Centre to
encourage and support research into environment policy in
Australia. Michael is currently working on research which
analyses the economic impacts of Australian agricultural policy
reform. This report will be published in mid-2006.
Email: cebon@ozprospect.org
Past
Fellows
Dr Sally
Young
Sally is a Lecturer in the Media and Communications Program at
The University of Melbourne. She teaches ‘Politics,
Communication, Media’, ‘Australian Media’ and ‘Strategic
Political Communication’. Sally completed her PhD in political
advertising and her research interests are primarily focused on
media and politics including news management, political
reporting, election communication and political PR. Sally has
previously worked in various political and government offices,
including on election campaigns and as a Media Adviser. In 2001,
she founded the Political Advertising Archive (PAA). The PAA is
the largest dedicated archive of Australian election material.
It holds thousands of political advertisements and newspaper
articles as well as campaign ephemera such as buttons, badges,
posters, t-shirts, hats and brochures.
Darren
Godwell
(BHMS, MHK) is a founder of the LUMBU Indigenous Community
Foundation - Australia’s first Indigenous controlled, national
philanthropic organisation. Darren has also worked with
Indigenous politicians within both the Aboriginal & Torres
Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and Members of Parliaments.
He is a descendant of the Kokoberen
peoples. He is presently studying in Europe and North America
under a Bertelsmann Fellowship.
Simon
Castles
is a contributing editor of
The Big Issue,
a national weekly current affairs publication employing the
homeless and long term unemployed. He writes frequently for The
Bulletin and for The Age on topics including mental
health, the politics of Generation X, and drug and alcohol
abuse.
Dr Fiona
Stewart
is an online researcher, elearning
analyst and a proud Third Wave Feminist. A frequent opinion
writer for most of Australia's broadsheet newspapers, she is
co-author (with Chris Mann - University of Cambridge) of one of
the world's first books on online research. As Director of Real
World Research & Communications, Fiona has consulted to dot
coms, large blue chip companies and
the United Nations. She recently founded the consumer
complaints website
Notgoodenough.org
where she is now Chief Executive.
Dr Tom
Morton
is based in Sydney and is the author of Altered Mates a
bestselling book on the subject of the modern male. Morton's
provocative journalism and policy analysis appears regularly in
the Sydney Morning Herald. He is also a senior producer with
Background Briefing
which can be heard on ABC Radio National on Sundays at 9.10am
and Tuesdays at 7.10pm.
Thornton
McCamish
a former editor of The Big Issue Australia, is a freelance
writer based in Melbourne. His commentary, travel journalism and
book reviews appear regularly in the Melbourne Age, Sydney
Morning Herald and The Australian. He is currently working on a
travel book focused on expatriate culture in the south of
France. His first book, Supercargo: A Journey Among Ports
was published by Lonely Planet publications in 2002.
Hugh Martin
(MA, BA) contributes commentary to The Age and the Herald Sun.
He is a Features editor at
The Age. His latest book, Australia's Population
Challenge is published by Penguin.
Misha
Schubert
covers Federal politics from Canberra for
The Age. She recently completed a Masters in Journalism at
Columbia University. She was a delegate at the Constitutional
Convention on the Republic under the "Republic 4U" ticket.
|
