Royal Society of NSW scholarship winners 2015
Wednesday 4 February 2015
Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney
Melanie Laird
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
Melanie is a University Medallist in her second year of a PhD under the supervision of Professor Michael Thompson, studying reproduction in marsupials.
Ruth Wells
School of Psychology, University of Sydney
Ruth is enrolled in a doctorate of clinical psychology and Master of Science programme. With an exceptional display of initiative, Ruth built relationships with psychologists, psychiatrists, academics and health workers in Jordan over the internet; crowd-funded her travel costs, and then completed the research project in Jordan where she explored barriers to mental health care for Syrian refugees living in Jordan.
Stephen Parker
School of Chemistry, University of NSW
Stephen Parker is in his final year of a PhD in the Nanomaterials group in the School of Chemistry at UNSW where he is making surfaces that can capture cells from a blood sample and then release a single targeted cell that has a particular characteristic.
L to R: Brynn Hibbert, Stephen Parker, Melanie Laird, Ruth Wells, Donald Hector