Summer reading list: Churchill Fellow reports 2022

Our Churchill Fellows travelled to the four corners of the globe to gather these findings. Catch up on your summer reading and check out these reports by our Churchill Fellows during 2022.

Report topics include: domestic violence, yoga for dementia, outlaw motorcycle gangs, Indigenous rural fire services, zoo visits, German violins, upcycling of textiles, poverty and human rights, 3D footware printing, autism, and social inclusion just to name a few.

Check out the links below, read, enjoy, share and pass them on.

Community

Lois Keay-Smith	To help adults navigate their career interruption, career re-invention and work life after cancer
Nick Marshall	The Rodney Warmington Churchill Fellowship to improve community inclusion and reduce social isolation using activity in people with special needs
Farzana Choudhury	To empower people facing poverty through social and housing status rights-based models

Public service and emergency services

Daniel Busch	The Lord Mayor’s Bushfire Appeal Churchill Fellowship to innovate career pathways for Indigenous peoples into rural fire service agencies
Kylee von Ohle	The Donald Mackay Churchill Fellowship to optimise policing of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs through innovative investigation techniques

Land, commerce and logistics

Leah A Galvin	To explore business and government approaches that have increased local food procurement
Jane Milburn	To investigate ways hands-on upcycling actions help reduce textile waste and enhance wellbeing
Russell Harrison	To investigate how the effective regulation of short term rental accommodation might contribute to housing affordability

Professions

Sarah Brown	To investigate innovative technology solutions to connect zoo visitors with nature and grow revenue
Carly Stanley	To investigate community-led responses and innovative approaches to the criminal justice system
Michelle Tapper	To study science video production in digital media and develop a financially sustainable model
Charlotte Wood	To identify innovative methods to drive cyber security awareness and behavioural change across Australia

Health and medicine

Judith Brewer	To create and expand care farming practices in Australia for autistic adults with acute anxiety
Robyn Lewis	To explore the use of Yoga within Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for people with a diagnosis of mild to moderate dementia
Danielle Allen	To explore integrated responses to non-fatal strangulation domestic violence victims
Louise Hallo	To support young people develop healthy and safe strategies when engaging in sexual relationships
Danielle Mazza	To reduce inequities in access to medical abortion through better integration into primary care
Debra Swann	To investigate and identify international best practice services for deaf domestic and family violence survivors
Belinda Luther	The Dr Dorothea Sandars and Irene Lee Churchill Fellowship to investigate and implement best practice physiotherapy in Australian paediatric palliative care
Rebecca Heath	The MPST Foundation Churchill Fellowship to establish and sustain Australia’s first Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship

Arts

Leila Enright	To study how theatres reach representation and cultural dexterity in hierarchy, programming and development
Daniel Tobin	To research benchmark public art to enable Australian artists to deliver best practice outcomes
Markiyan Melnychenko	The Dr Iain C. Medgett Churchill Fellowship to study pedagogical techniques of the German violin school under renowned violinist Antje Weithaas
Jennifer Harper Burnett	To investigate footwear last design and manufacture techniques including 3D printing of footwear lasts

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