PRIZES, AWARDS, & GRANTS

Springer Best Paper Award, for the best paper published in The Australian Educational Researcher in each calendar year. Presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 2024 (AUD$500). Awarded for ‘Attending to slow violence: From Pride to Stand Out’.

PESA Doctoral and Postgraduate Presentation Award, for a high-quality presentation with significant philosophical content, that is succinct and clear, engaging, and has a degree of novelty, given by a doctoral/postgraduate student at a PESA conference. Presented at the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Annual Conference, 2023. Awarded for ‘Attending to slow violence in schools: Recognising others within affective ecologies of displacement’.

La Trobe University 2022 School of Education Internal Research Grant Scheme, funding to attend and present at the AARE conference in Adelaide, 2022 (AUD$1595)

Southern Cross University 2022 Faculty of Education Research Funding Program, Re-imagining school climate: building student capacity through creative pedagogy, led by Dr Melissa Wolfe (Southern Cross University) and in collaboration with Dr Eve Mayes (Deakin University), 2022 (AUD$13489.44)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant, Holy Homophobia: heterosexism and transphobia in Catholic schools, led by A/Prof Tonya Callaghan (University of Calgary) and in collaboration with Prof Jo Lampert (La Trobe University), 2022 (AUD$104,355)

Industry scholarship, La Trobe University and Parade College, with Prof Jo Lampert (La Trobe University), 2021 (AUD$75,600)

La Trobe School of Education Research Achievement, La Trobe University, 2020 (AUD$500)

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Travelling Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2017 (AUD$1500)

Freda Cohen Prize, for most meritorious thesis submitted for the Master of Education degree in the previous year, University of Melbourne, 2016 (AUD$ 1387). Awarded for ‘Becoming boy: A/effecting identity in a Catholic boys’ school’.

Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Melbourne, 2016 (AUD$92,008)

Monash & Commonwealth Merit and Equity Scholarship, Monash University, 1999 (full tuition)