Philanthropy helps enable unique research
Apr, 2009
Alumni support of PhD candidates is ensuring MBS remains a thought-leader amongst its peers.
An alumni-funded scholarship is supporting the School’s first Indigenous PhD student, Michelle Evans, who also works as the Head of the Willin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Victorian College of Arts.
Michelle’s studies look at the bonds between indigenous leadership, arts leadership and leadership development. She is breaking new ground in exploring tensions within the emerging field of Indigenous Leadership in the Arts sector in Australia. Michelle has been encouraged by her discussions with indigenous elders to consider what traditional indigenous models of leadership might look like in a contemporary organisational structure.
Joanna Minkiewicz’s PhD is also furthering the School’s research output, as she looks at positional advantage in a global market within the Cultural and Recreational sectors. Joanna is the beneficiary of the Ian Kirk PhD Scholarship, gifted by alumnus Ian Kirk (MBA 1998).
Along with her supervisors, Jody Evans and Kerrie Bridson, Joanna was a recent winner within the Sports, Arts & Heritage Track for her paper on “Building brand identity: Does it Pay? An investigation into cultural and recreational services".
Both PhD candidates have said how much they value these scholarships – not only for the important financial assistance they receive, but for the endorsement of their work that these awards provide.
Click here if you would like to make a gift that supports research at MBS, or alternatively contact Director of Advancement, Clare Pullar, on c.pullar@mbs.edu or call +61 3 9349 8196.
