Academic recognition for two staff

Wednesday 22 July

PhD Prize

Trinity’s Chief of Staff, Dr Brenda Holt has received the 2009 Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis – one of only four awards given annually across the whole University. Dr Holt, who completed her doctorate last year in the Faculty of Education, received the Prize for the Social Sciences area, which encompasses the Faculties of Economics and Commerce, Law, Education, and the Melbourne Business School. Her thesis was entitled Global routes/rural roots: identity, rural women and higher education.

In June, Dr Holt was also awarded the Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s prize for the most significant research publication in 2008. This recognised her book chapter ‘Researching beyond words: exploring identity through photographs with metropolitan university students from rural areas', in Moss J (ed), Researching Education: Visually-Digitally-Spatially. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers, pp. 127-146’.

A Fellow of Antiquaries

Dr Tamar Lewit, Subject Leader of History of Ideas, and Director of Special Academic Projects, TCFS, has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. This is an archaeological and historical society of approximately 2,500 international Fellows, founded in 1707, and headquartered in Burlington House. Election as a Fellow requires a nomination to be supported by at least 12 current Fellows in an annual ballot.

Tamar – who can now add the letters ‘FSA’ after her name – convenes the Late Antiquity seminar series at Trinity, open to all interested academics. Presenters in Semester II include Dr Alexandra Chavarria Arnau from the University of Padua, speaking on Roman villas and their owners (Thursday 17 December). For more information, contact tlewit@trinity.unimelb.edu.au