Flinders’ Fulbright highlights

Two Flinders graduates have been named among the Australian Fulbright Scholars for 2020.

The Fulbright Program that exists between Australia and the United States is one the largest and most prestigious educational exchange programs in the world, and this year’s two scholarship recipients join a list of more than 50 Flinders students who have benefitted from Fulbright scholarships since 1967.

Victoria Bridgland, a PhD candidate in Psychology at Flinders’ College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, has received a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship and will be hosted at Harvard University’s Department of Psychology. Ms Bridgland’s research focuses on the emotional and behavioural effects of ‘Trigger Warnings’, which are warnings that alert people about specific content they may find distressing.

Katherine Oborne, who completed a Flinders Grad Cert in Public Sector Management in 2011 and is currently working at Pinnacle Group Australia, has received a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship. Her current studies in public administration is helping organisations (primarily not-for-profit and government) be the best they can be through strategic consultation. Her host institution in the US is yet to be confirmed.

Flinders will also host two US academics from later this month, continuing a longstanding link between Flinders and the Fulbright Program. Professor Jonathan Mendilow will be the new Flinders/CMUA Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy, to undertake collaborative research into key policy issues important to both Australia and the United States.

In a new exchange, Professor Jim King is coming to Flinders on a Fulbright Professional Scholarship in American-Australian Alliance Studies, which has been funded by Fulbright.

 

 

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