Arts and trades
Tim Trezise (NSW, 2022)Car restoration
Project aim: The Auto Skills Australia Churchill Fellowship to study the latest techniques and technologies that form a high-end car restoration
Art company funding
Project aim: To investigate new global responses offering arts companies alternatives to ethical private funding dilemmas
Circus Arts
Project aim: The Mr and Mrs Gerald Frank New Churchill Fellowship to investigate the artistic future of Australian Circus Arts
Women’s museums
Project aim: To research, learn from and build relationships with women’s museums
Orchestra & inclusion
Project aim: To evaluate international best-practice Musical Inclusion models for application in Australia
Natural fabric dye
Project aim: To increase natural dyeing expertise by investigating established botanical dye studios
Fashion design
Project aim: To complete formal and recognised training in Fashion Design in Europe with subject experts.
Dylan Crismani (SA, 2020)Musical instruments
Project aim: The Mr and Mrs Gerald Frank New Churchill Fellowship to document the musical instruments of Harry Partch so that they can be replicated in Australia.
Japanese woodwork
Project aim: The AV Jennings Churchill Fellowship to explore the use of traditional Japanese wood-only joints in modern robotic building construction.
Stone letter carving
Project aim: The Bob and June Prickett Churchill Fellowship to train in the art of stone letter carving and observe the operation of a commercial studio.
Creative industries
Project aim: To identify strategies that can foster socio-economic development in the Creative Industries.
Opera
Project Aim: The Mr and Mrs Gerald Frank New Churchill Fellowship to pursue excellence in opera and build international relationships with cultures in which opera thrives.
Costume tailoring
Project Aim: The Stuart and Norma Leslie Churchill Fellowship to gain international costume tailoring skills to address a national skill shortage in the field.
Agriculture, horticulture & food production
Berries
Project aim: The Hort Innovation Churchill Fellowship to build on the knowledge, experience and technology used in the freezing of whole soft berry fruits
Cognac brandy
Project aim: To undertake an internship with a reputable cognac distillery to learn the art of brandy production
Food growing in tropics
Project aim: To research and update home food gardening information for the north Australian tropical climate
Livestock traceability
Project aim: To explore motives for livestock producers to take the lead and improve traceability law for food safety.
Regenerative agriculture
Project aim: To investigate drivers for regenerative agriculture to incentivise adoption of these practices in Australia.
Urban farming
Project Aim: To investigate urban farm ventures that provide vocational pathways for aspiring food growers.
Community food forests
Project Aim: To investigate the potential of community food forests and orchards.
Orchards and cider
Project Aim: To investigate orchard growing systems for improving Australian cider production.
Community
Design and tourism
Project aim: To investigate the relevance of design thinking principles on tourism business development
Tina Gunter (WA, 2020)Addiction recovery
Project aim: To investigate methods of long term recovery from addiction through education, employment and social reintegration
Empowering people with intellectual disabilities
Project aim: To investigate programs that empower people with intellectual disability to improve health outcomes.
Paraclimbing
Project aim: To develop and prepare Australian athletes for international paraclimbing competitions
Tim Bevitt (ACT, 2019)Intergenerational play
Project aim: The Gilbert Spottiswood Churchill Fellowship to investigate how intergenerational play and creativity can be used to build cohesive communities
Veteran care
Project aim: The Paul Tys Churchill Fellowship to create a model of care for families supporting a veteran suffering psychological / physical injury
Ending Homelessness
Project aim: To better understand how communities around the world are reducing and ending street homelessness
Read David’s Fellowship report
Aged home care
Project aim: The Meg Gilmartin Churchill Fellowship to examine international home care models and determine transfer-ability to Tasmanian aged care
Limb amputation transition
Project aim: To improve transition of people with lower limb amputation from hospital to living in the community
Migrant family violence
Project aim: The WA Department of Communities Churchill Fellowship to understand the perspectives of migrant and refugee women who have experienced family violence
Disability employment
Project aim: To study leadership models that remove barriers to employment for people with disability.
Cameron Cliff (QLD, 2020)Domestic violence training in workplaces
Project aim: The James Love Churchill Fellowship to improve training on preventing and responding to domestic violence to Australian workplaces.
Ending Homelessness
Project aim: The Jack Brockhoff Foundation Churchill Fellowship to investigate how councils respond to rough sleeping while balancing responsibilities to the wider community.
Islamaphobia
Project Aim: The Paul Tys Churchill Fellowship to explore practical strategies for countering Islamophobia
Housing Affordability
Project Aim: To research land use approaches to assist in addressing Australia’s housing affordability crisis.
Religious attacks
Project Aim: To investigate responses from religious leaders to violent attacks on houses of worship
Affordable housing for older Australians
Project Aim: The AV Jennings Churchill Fellowship to investigate alternative, affordable models of housing that could help older Australians to age-in-place.
Power of renters
Project Aim: To learn how to best build an organisation to grow the power of renters to advocate for social change.
Laura Egan
(NT, 2018)
Venture philanthropy
Project Aim: To investigate the use of venture philanthropy to grow enterprises that foster economic inclusion
Housing for women
Project Aim: To investigate innovative housing models for women.
Domestic violence and women’s safety
Project Aim: To gain insights into the impact of new domestic violence criminal offences on women’s safety.
Disability housing
Project Aim: To explore innovative options for disability housing that focus on user-choice and self-determination.
Education
Children’s books as vehicles
Project aim: To enhance expertise in children’s books as vehicles for disrupting prejudice and discrimination.
State and Territory History
Project aim: To revive learning about state and territory perspectives under our national History curriculum.
Student Absenteeism
Project aim: The WA Department of Communities Churchill Fellowship to research factors and contexts linked with successful and failing student absenteeism strategies
Religious Education
Project aim: To explore best Practice in Religious Education worldwide to enhance RE in a multicultural Australia
Jessica Colleu Terradas (WA, 2020)
Literacy intervention
Project aim: The Dorothy and Brian Wilson Churchill Fellowship to identify effective language and literacy screening and intervention practices for at-risk students
Adolescents with chronic pain and fatigue
Project aim: To increase quality of life, community and schooling outcomes for adolescents with chronic pain and fatigue.
Andrea Evans-McCall (VIC, 2020)
Inclusive learning and employability
Project aim: To investigate employability skills development in inclusive learning environments.
Virtual students
Project aim: To explore virtual student mobility programs to increase participation of disadvantaged students.
School infrastructure
Project Aim: The Northern Districts Education Centre (Sydney) Churchill Fellowship to transform and streamline strategic capabilities for school infrastructure planning.
First peoples
Child protection
Project aim: To explore how First Nations People are reclaiming child protection decision making to create change
Policing and employment
Project aim: To investigate a model for policing, employment and empowerment for remote Indigenous communities
Joe Flick (NSW, 2019)WW1 Burial sites
Project aim: To research and document the burial sites of Indigenous soldiers who died overseas during WW1.
Fatal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder prevention
Project Aim: To research holistic Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder prevention in urban Indigenous communities.
Mental health
Project Aim: To gain an international perspective on the work being undertaken in First Nations communities on Mental Health
Colonisation in galleries
Project Aim: To investigate colonised people’s interpretative strategies in permanent gallery displays.
Peritoneal Dialysis Units with First Nation patients
Project Aim: The Bob and June Prickett Churchill Fellowship to study the education and training practices of Peritoneal Dialysis Units with First Nation patients
Health and medicine
Dementia palliative care
Project aim: The WA Department of Health Churchill Fellowship to explore models of palliative care for people living with dementia
Trauma in childhood
Project aim: To understand how to make exposure to trauma and adversity in childhood a public health issue
Sepsis
Project aim: To develop a best practice approach to diagnosis and management of sepsis across Australia
Billy Garvey (VIC, 2019)
Evidence based parenting
Project aim: To improve child health and development using technology to support evidence-based parenting practice
Paediatric palliative care
Project aim: To advance the evaluation of paediatric palliative care in the Australian Capital Territory
Health literacy
Project aim: To ascertain if health literacy should be treated as a health, education and community issue
Neuroplasticity in brain injury and disease
Project aim: To explore pioneering technology promoting neuroplasticity in people with brain injury and disease
3D printing in bio applications
Project aim: To investigate application of advanced (Bio)mechanical modelling and 3D printing for personalised prosthetic design
COVID vaccine communication
Project aim: The Bob and June Prickett Churchill Fellowship to improve vaccine and risk communication to optimise COVID and routine vaccine acceptance and uptake
Blood products
Project aim: To investigate the use of blood products in the pre hospital setting
Simulated surgical training
Project aim: To explore leading global practices in the use of simulation in surgical education and training.
Grace Lethlean (VIC, 2018)Digital health
Project aim: To strengthen Australia’s digital health companies and industry using international best practice
Vaccine reaction
Project aim: To improve our clinical advice and management of vaccine reactions for the Australian community.
Samantha Rowbotham (VIC, 2020)
Skeletal trauma
Project aim: To develop guidelines for best practice skeletal trauma analysis in forensic anthropology.
Opioid misuse
Project aim: To investigate effective public health policies for preventing opioid misuse.
Public service - courts and emergency
Domestic violence offenders
Project aim: To explore diversionary methods to change behaviours in domestic violence offenders
Cognitively impaired offenders
Project aim: To understand global approaches to supporting rehabilitation for cognitively impaired offenders
Parenting Coordination after separation
Project aim: To investigate best practice in Parenting Coordination as a dispute resolution tool after separation
School attacks
Project aim: The Gallaugher Bequest Churchill Fellowship to investigate effective strategies to minimise casualties during school attacks
Devices and Fuel reduction
Project aim: The Bob and June Prickett Churchill Fellowship to research and assess UAV delivery methods of incendiary devices used in fuel reduction burning
Justice in isolated communities
Project aim: To evaluate practical models to improve access to justice in isolated and disadvantaged communities
Cate Sumner (TAS, 2019)Legal services for women and children
Project aim: The Gallaugher Bequest Churchill Fellowship to research how impact investing and social impact bonds can support legal services for women & children
Evidence based policing
Project aim: To investigate the development of evidence based policing across police agencies worldwide
Brendan Van de Duim (VIC, 2020)
Sex/violent offender management
Project aim: To identify proven risk based frameworks for serious sex/violent supervision order offender management
Gangs in youth detention
Project aim: The Donald Mackay Churchill Fellowship to investigate effective responses to youth gangs for use in youth detention centres
Kathleen Christopherson (QLD, 2020)
Coercive control
Project aim: To assess the efficacy of prosecuting the offence of coercive control
Infants in court
Project aim: To investigate innovative court-based approaches to infants in care and protection proceedings.
Policing engagement for people with mental and intellectual disabilities
Project aim: The Churchill Fellows Association of Western Australia Churchill Fellowship to establish diversionary practices for mentally and intellectually disabled persons engaging police.
Matthew Minehan (NSW, 2020)Ethical behaviour in police agencies
Project aim: To investigate world-class training for embedding ethical behaviour within police agencies.
Corrections intelligence
Project Aim: To investigate international best practice in corrections intelligence methodologies
Fatal and serious crash evidence
Project Aim: To achieve quick clearance while maintaining evidence integrity at fatal and serious crashes.
Volunteer firefighting leadership
Project Aim: To investigate learning and development options in leadership for volunteer firefighters.
Prosecution disclosure
Project Aim: To make a comparative assessment of strategies to effectively manage prosecution disclosure.
Science, technology and the environment
Biosecurity programs and citizen engagement
Project aim: To build and share knowledge of citizen science global participation in biosecurity programs globally
Space and STEM workforce
Project aim: The Park Family Churchill Fellowship to inspire young people into careers in Space and grow Australia’s future STEM workforce.
Health systems and the environment
Project aim: To explore how health systems can innovate to reduce their environmental footprint.
Geotechnical sustainability
Project aim: To develop a Statewide sustainable GIS geotechnical database to capture present data for the future.
Australian Flora and climate change
Project aim: The Elvie Munday Churchill Fellowship to investigate the origins and history of the modern Australian Flora and the likely impacts of climate change.
Seaweed production
Project Aim: The Richard Rischbieth Churchill Fellowship to expand my knowledge and experience of seaweed production in an ocean based environment.
Low carbon cities
Project Aim: To investigate leading global actions to transition cities to a resilient low carbon economy.
Water scarcity
Project Aim: To improve our legal frameworks’ response to water scarcity by learning from the global experience
Electricity and renewable energy
Project Aim: To optimally operate a low inertia electricity grid with high penetration of renewable energy.
Conservation partnerships
Project Aim: To explore, review and document case studies of successful private-public conservation partnerships.
Hydrogen and Australia’s energy future
Project Aim: To understand the role of hydrogen in Australia’s energy future.