Turbo Development

Electrical engineer Olsen Garland has set a cracking pace in his first few months as a Menzies Scholar. As part of the latest group of Menzies Scholars to arrive in the UK, Olsen has started his MBA at the London Business School (LBS) and says from orientation week on it has been nothing short of […]

The call has gone out for applicants to be the 2018 Sir Robert Menzies Indigenous Mentoring Fellow at the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS). The Fellowship, which started this year, is a partnership between the Menzies Foundation and MITS. Each year, 22 Indigenous boys and girls around Year Seven age come to learn and live

The results of a research trial by Menzies Allied Health Scholar and Liverpool Hospital Senior Physiotherapist, Bernadette Brady, will lead to the development of planning tools that practitioners can use to help them quickly explore a patient’s cultural influences on their pain. Liverpool and Fairfield Hospitals and Western Sydney University have pioneered a chronic pain

Glenn Withers is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Australian National University and University of New South Wales and was founding CEO of Universities Australia. He was awarded his RG Menzies Scholarship to complete a PhD in Business Economics within the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in 1970, well before

Professor Brian Johnson is a futurist who works with organizations to develop an actionable 10-15 year vision and what it will feel like to live in the future. Brian is currently the futurist in residence at Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, a Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation

The journey through a PhD is often about much more than just research. Being flexible, having patience and persistence, and the ability to work independently while managing research and clinical work were all a part of the challenge for 2015 Allied Health Scholar Teresa Brown who recently submitted her final thesis for review. Teresa’s PhD

The Satellite Foundation’s Menzies Young Leader program is in full swing! Eight amazing young people from various parts of Victoria are participating in a series of six Saturday workshops, talking about shared experiences of living in a family where a parent or sibling has mental health issues, and how to capture and transform their experiences and

2014 NHMRC/Menzies Fellow in Medicine, Dr Si Ming Man, has been presented the Jim Pittard Early Career Award from the Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM) for his growing body of research work. The award recognises distinguished contributions in any area of Australian research in microbiology by scientists in early stages of their career. Si Ming

One of the founding Directors of the original Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Trust, Robert White AO, has passed away peacefully aged 93. Bob White, as he was better known, was also the Deputy Chair of the Menzies Foundation when Sir Ninian Stephen was Chair in the late 90s. Mr White was the honorary Treasurer for

“My Aboriginal identity is me and I work hard to make sure it is something significant in my life, so everyone knows that I am proud of my heritage.” Menzies Indigenous Mentoring Fellow, Michelle Kerrin, is working hard to making her mark during her Indigenous Studies degree at Melbourne University and as a mentor with