Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarship
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The Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarship is a scholarship
awarded annually to students and graduates of the University of Melbourne
to undertake graduate study in the United Kingdom
.
The scholarship was established by the estate of Victorian bank manager Rae Bennett, with the condition that scholarship recipients were "chosen from graduates displaying force of character industry thrift and true sportsmanship or sportswomanship along with their scholastic attainments and further qualities of good citizenship and signs of good family upbringing".
Recipients have come from all faculties in the University, and have included visual artist Callum Cooper, Opera Australia
principal artist Christopher Field, (2002) and historians Alana Harris (2003), and Benjamin Mountford (2008). Poet Judith Bishop
won the award in 1994 and completed a thesis on the poetry of Yves Bonnefoy
at the University of Cambridge
.
The Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne
, Professor Deirdre Coleman was one of the inaugural recipients in 1979.
Scholarship
A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.-Types:...
awarded annually to students and graduates of the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
to undertake graduate study in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
The scholarship was established by the estate of Victorian bank manager Rae Bennett, with the condition that scholarship recipients were "chosen from graduates displaying force of character industry thrift and true sportsmanship or sportswomanship along with their scholastic attainments and further qualities of good citizenship and signs of good family upbringing".
Recipients have come from all faculties in the University, and have included visual artist Callum Cooper, Opera Australia
Opera Australia
Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of its time spent in the The Arts Centre in Melbourne...
principal artist Christopher Field, (2002) and historians Alana Harris (2003), and Benjamin Mountford (2008). Poet Judith Bishop
Judith Bishop
Judith Bishop is a contemporary Australian poet, linguist and translator.-Biography:Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. She holds a DPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. In 1994 she received the Rae and Edith Bennett...
won the award in 1994 and completed a thesis on the poetry of Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher....
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
.
The Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
, Professor Deirdre Coleman was one of the inaugural recipients in 1979.
External links
- Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarship
- Melbourne Scholarships Office
- Melbourne University Secretary's Department List of Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarship Winners 1979-2006.