PRIZES, AWARDS, & GRANTS

Prizes

Chancellor’s Prize, for excellence in the PhD thesis. Awarded for ‘Slow violence and nonviolence: Violence, Affect, and Everyday schooling’. Awarded by University of Melbourne, 2025

Doctoral Research Prize, for most meritorious research thesis in the Philosophy of Education (PhD) during the preceding year. Awarded for ‘Slow violence and nonviolence: Violence, Affect, and Everyday schooling’. Awarded by Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne, 2025

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

Awards

AARE Ray Debus Award, for excellence in doctoral research in education. Presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, 2025. Awarded for ‘Slow violence and nonviolence: Violence, Affect, and Everyday schooling’. Awarded by the Australian Association for Research in Education.

AER 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. 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 School of Education Research Achievement, La Trobe University, 2020

Funding, scholarships, and grants

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

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

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

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

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Travelling Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2017

Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Melbourne, 2016

Monash & Commonwealth Merit and Equity Scholarship, Monash University, 1999