Academic achievement among members of Graduate House is an important part of the celebrations during the cycle of the academic year. We have recently farewelled several Doctor of Medicine Year IV students whose coursework finished at Mid-Semester break. All of these budding young doctors head off to their first full-time internships at hospitals around the state in the coming weeks or after a short well-earned break. Other coursework higher degrees finish at the end of the semester but those doing masters degrees or doctorates by thesis are finishing gradually with thesis submission, and then emendations and resubmission.
Jack Stephens, apart from being the resident Director of Music, has also just submitted his completed thesis for the award of his Doctor of Music, one of the rarest of all degrees at the University. The Graduate House community congratulated Jack on his amazing work at the Academic Dinner on Monday 14 October. In recognition of his standing as a new DMus graduand he received a Cambridge doctoral bonnet (originally worn in 2019 by Dr Brandon Munn, UG 2012-14 and GH 2019, the first PhD in Graduate House) and the sword of learning (an original gift to the College in 2020 from the second PhD in Graduate House Dr Mingyuan (Yvonne) Bai, GH 2020).
Katherine Rosen was also awarded an Amy Louise Hart Scholarship for attaining the highest accumulated marks of all the members of the Graduate Community this year. She is studying for a Master of Communications through coursework. She joins ten other Hart scholars currently resident.
Distinguished guests included Dr Philip Clifton-Bligh Endocrinologist and former Associate Professor in Medicine and David Greco, who is a Lecturer of Classical Voice at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
University Scholarships and Prizes
Josh Gaul is in his 2nd year of a Doctor of Medicine and his first year in Graduate House and has been awarded the University’s Dr John Osbourne RN Scholarship. This scholarship supports residents of St Paul’s College enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine in their second, third or fourth year of study and was established through a bequest to the University in 1919 by Kate Cunningham Moffat.
Ines Wen, in her second year of a research PhD in the Business School and her first year in Graduate House, has been awarded numerous grants for her research and travel: from the Business School Research Unit to present a paper at the Global China Conference in Melbourne and a Postgraduate Research Support Scheme grant to present at the Academy of International Business Oceania symposium in Sydney; the International Association for Chinese Management Research for data collection abroad; a Taiwan Government Scholars in Australia grant; and the 2024 SUPRA Social Impact Grant to organise sustainable decision-making workshops for PG students at the University. Ines, originally from Taiwan, came to Sydney via study at home then in France, Germany and China and is conducting regular tutorials in Chinese at St Paul’s. She has a MBusAdmin and BBusAdmin (MechEng) from the National Taiwan University. Her research into business management disruption in China is described in more detail in this story: https://www.stpauls.edu.au/international-research-award-for-graduate-house-phd-student/
Lara Holburn, in her 1st year of a PhD in Chemistry and first year at Graduate House, has been awarded the University’s Agnes Campbell Prize, a postgraduate scholarship supporting postgraduate students in the School of Chemistry who demonstrate excellence in organic chemistry. This scholarship was established in I996 by a bequest from Jack Campbell Norrie to provide scholarships to students enrolled in a master’s by research or PhD.
Congratulation to all those post graduate members of the College who are achieving so much at the highest levels of academia.
