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USUKAA Newsletter UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION USUKAA Newsletter AUTUMN 2014 PAUL GRAY INAUGURAL RECIPIENT AND GRADUATE OF CHARLES PERKINS SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAM Ben Harvey and Paul Gray Charles Perkins Scholarships give students the These postgraduate scholarships are particularly opportunity to become leaders, not only in their field but directed towards Indigenous Australians who have the in the broader community. potential to become leaders in their field of study and in The Scholarships were launched in 2009 in memory of their communities. Aboriginal leader and activist Dr Charles Perkins - the first A panel of prominent Indigenous and non-Indigenous Indigenous Australian man to graduate from university. In Australians, together with a representative of the British 2009, with the assistance of the University of Oxford, the Government and Cambridge Australia Scholarships, select Charles Perkins Trust established annual Charles Perkins the Charles Perkins Scholars each year. Scholarships to provide two talented Indigenous Australians In 2009 University of Sydney Alum Paul Gray became one each year with the opportunity to undertake postgraduate of the two inaugural recipients of this scholarship program. study at the University of Oxford from 2010. In 2011, with USUKAA took the opportunity to speak with him as he support from the Cambridge Trust, the Scholarships also prepared to submit his PhD dissertation. became available for study at the University of Cambridge. IN THIS ISSUE PAUL GRAY INAUGURAL 01 COVER STORY RECIPIENT AND GRADUATE 04 A LESSON AND LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP THROUGH OF CHARLES PERKINS RECIPROCITY SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAM CONT. 05 MEMORIES OF A PAST USUKAA PRESIDENT 1. Brief background to who you are: eventually my partner, with the help I am a Wiradjuri man and grew up in of my family, convinced me to contact 06 VISIONS OF A south-west Sydney. I completed a them, and to apply. FUTURE PRESIDENT Bachelor of Science (Psychology) 3. What did you initially feel the 07 ALUMNI PROFILE: and a Bachelor of Arts (Sociology and scholarship and experience would REFLECTIONS FROM Aboriginal Studies) at the University provide you with and how you apply BLOOMSBURY: GLOBALISM, of Sydney. During my studies I joined that on completing the studies? CULTURE AND OPPORTUNITY the NSW Department of Family My research is looking at some of the POST-GFC and Community Services (FACS) cognitive processes that are thought on a cadetship, and completed to mediate the relationship between 08 EVENTS: SUMMER my internship there to work as a childhood maltreatment and later RECEPTION AT THE HOUSE psychologist. In this role I supported adjustment. In particular we are looking OF LORDS IN LONDON vulnerable children and young people, at processes of emotion regulation and 09 EVENTS: SUMMER in particular those in foster care. social understanding in a sample of RECEPTION AT THE OXFORD I am also an active member of my adolescents in foster care, and whether CAMBRIDGE CLUB community, having supported local these processes show maltreatment- 10 NEWS: BRETT ROGERS foster care groups, serving on related effects that may confer risk of AWARDED OBE IN QUEENS’S the Board of the Local Aboriginal later social or emotional difficulties. BIRTHDAY HONOURS Lands Council and contributing Obviously this has direct implications to the Aboriginal Education for the children and young people that 12 ALUMNA WINS QANTAS Consultative Group. I work with, and may help us to better AUSTRALIAN WOMAN OF THE support them. This scholarship also YEAR IN THE UK AWARD 2014 2. Why did you choose to apply for the scholarship? gave me an opportunity to learn from View the newsletter online at When I started at FACS, I was always other researchers in this area from sydney.edu.au/alumni/usukaa strongly encouraged to think about different jurisdictions. This allowed postgraduate studies. I was really me to develop a better understanding committed to conducting research that of some of the different approaches EDITORS might contribute to our understanding that are out there and how they affect of the challenges that face children children and young people. Ben Harvey MA ’02 BA ’01 and young people in out-of-home care. 4. What has the personal and learning I feel this is a significant issue that experience been like for you so far, SUBMISSIONS from speakers and contributors perhaps doesn’t get the attention it and do you think it has changed you, are their own opinions and do not represent the opinions of the editors, the University of Sydney requires. My partner brought home your approach and aspirations? or USUKAA. information about the scholarship, It was really challenging to pick up and and initially I was pretty dismissive. move to Oxford. Family and community While I loved the idea of studying are really important to me, and yet here overseas, and at one of the most I was moving to the other side of the highly regarded universities in the planet. The Aboriginal community in world, I never thought I would have Oxford at that stage numbered three: any chance of being offered a place, Christian Thompson (who was also which was naturally a condition of the awarded the Perkins Scholarship), my scholarship. There was a group there partner, and myself. It was a tough looking at emotional disorders through move for my partner, who left her job a developmental lens which was a to move to Oxford with me. great fit for what I wanted to do, and 2 I was so grateful to have them there. around the country to improve the I think Oxford does a great job of lives of vulnerable children and THE FRIENDS OF welcoming international students, families. It’s meaningless unless it but it really helped having that little makes a difference for children and THE UNIVERSITY piece of community there too. young people. OF SYDNEY Each year since we have welcomed 6. Why do you think this scholarship more Aboriginal students to Oxford, offers a unique opportunity to those UK TRUST as well as others heading to who apply for it? The Friends of the University of Cambridge – our small Oxbridge This scholarship has been an amazing Sydney UK Trust allows alumni community keeps growing. opportunity for me, and I feel that I and friends residing in the UK to The Rhodes community was great have learned a lot about myself, my support the University through to us as well. When we started, the area of expertise and the world in tax- advantaged giving. Rhodes House warden was a fellow general that I hope will benefit my Every donation makes a Australian (Dr Don Markwell), and he community. I hope that this scholarship significant and immediate was determined to make sure we didn’t also encourages other young people impact on the ability of the fall through the cracks. to consider higher education and postgraduate studies. From the initial University to promote intellectual Oxford is an amazing place to study. two scholars in 2010, we have now had discovery and development. The access to experts from around the 23 Aboriginal students accepted to The Trust is currently world meant that there was always postgraduate courses at either Oxford prioritising fundraising for an interesting lecture happening or Cambridge. University of Sydney Merit somewhere, in addition to learning and Outstanding Achievement from the great people in my research All of the Aboriginal scholars that Scholarships and gifts to support group and the wider department. The joined us in the UK were extremely the Compass Program. collegiate system is great, and naturally committed to their communities, and exposes you to other fields outside have taken their experiences and Gifts to the trust are tax of your own expertise much means knowledge back to their communities deductible for UKresidents on you learn things you might not have around the country, from Hobart to both income and estate taxes. Broome, which can only be positive, otherwise come across, but also offers Further information not only in terms of their expertise, but fresh perspectives on your own work. Admin USUKAA also in encouraging others to further C/- Britain-Australia Society I’m not sure to what extent my studies. So not only do the scholars Australia Centre experiences over the last few years themselves get a world class education, Strand have affected my outlook. I think one but in taking this back to their London WC2B 4LG of the main things is around communities, they provide important E [email protected] confidence, and feeling that I can benefits, particularly for the younger make a significant contribution to the generation, as it automatically shifts Australian community in this area. I what is “possible”. think it has broadened my horizons UPCOMING about the extent of that potential, and Leaders like Charles Perkins opened how much is actually possible. the doors to universities around the EVENT country for Aboriginal and Torres Strait 5. What you see yourself doing when 25 April 2015, 4:45am Islander students, showing not only you complete the PhD? Centenary ANZAC Day that we have a place there, but that we I’ve already returned to the NSW Dawn Service, also have an important contribution to Department of Family and Community Hyde Park Corner, London make. This scholarship broadens the Services. It was always my intention scope of this ideal: not only do we have to return and keep working to try to a place at universities around Australia, improve things for vulnerable children but we have a place, and a contribution and young people. I hope that my to make, internationally. thesis, and the work I do from here, will contribute to the work that many people are doing around NSW and 3 A LESSON AND LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP THROUGH RECIPROCITY Sir Michael Hintze GCSG, AM (BSc ‘75 BE ‘77) and family continue to create a generous philanthropic legacy.
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