Congratulations to PhD student Jessica Byrne who recently received the Dr Phillip Brown Research Award.
The Award is named in memory of Dr Philip Brown, an eminent historian whose work is characterised by meticulous research and extensive use of primary sources, and is given annually to an enrolled higher degree by research student within the Faculty of Arts and Education, for research into Australia and Australian history entailing the use of primary sources.
Potential recipients are nominated by academic staff members of the Australian Studies discipline and other disciplines in which aspects of Australian History are present, and a shortlist is developed for final selection of the winner by the award selection panel, chaired by Deakin University’s Professor Louise Johnson.
Jessica’s research ‘examines Yarning as a relational methodology in the filmmaking process with the aim to see how this process can be used to provide a foundation for Aboriginal people and communities to use film as a vehicle to pass on stories, knowledge and oral histories’.
Jessica being presented her award by the the Faculty of Arts and Education