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She could well be the prototype for the successful modern teacher. Dr Carina Dennis has taken her evidence and research capabilities honed as a medical scientist, combined them with her communication skills as a journalist and editor, and is now using them to full effect in her third career as a teacher. Geneticist and 1993 […]

Chair of the Menzies Foundation, Professor Simon Maddocks, has paid tribute to former governor-general, The Right Honourable Sir Ninian Stephen, who helped shaped the Foundation as its Chairman from 1992-1998. “The Menzies Foundation was lucky to have such a great Australian and preeminent legal mind as its leader in the 90s,” Professor Maddocks said. “During

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