Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Announce 2025 Winston Churchill Fellowships
16 October 2024
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Board is honoured to announce 2025 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship and the 2025 Churchill McNeish Writers’ Fellowship recipients.
“Breaking down barriers to communication is a key theme for the fellowships.” Says David Ivory, Board Chair, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
“The eleven Fellowships cover an impressive range of subjects, including, traditional Mâori weaving, historic house operations, oral health, elder care, driver licensing, online harm prevention, and communication and literacy skill development.”
“I extend my heartfelt congratulations to all the recipients, who will bring valuable knowledge and experiences back to New Zealand and I look forward to seeing the positive impact it creates.”
Established in 1965 with contributions from the government and the public, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust supports New Zealanders from diverse fields to travel overseas, expand their knowledge on topics of national significance, and bring back insights to benefit their communities and New Zealand as a whole.
More information on the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust can be found at: http://www.communitymatters.govt.nz/winston-churchill-memorial-trust-fellowships/ https://www.facebook.com/winstonchurchillmemorialtrustnz/
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Below are the Fellowship Recipients Name Region and topic:
2025 Churchill Fellowships
Alana Ruakere (Ngāmotu New Plymouth): For travel to the Netherlands, Norway and Canada to study Dementia Villages as a model for New Zealand multi-generational living and elder care in the future.
Chantelle Griffiths (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland): For travel to the United Kingdom and Europe to study processes and systems that will support revitalising braille and tactile literacy in Aotearoa.
Cherie Jacobson (Te Wanganui-a-Tara Wellington): For travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland to study historic house museum operations and their relevance to Aotearoa.
Claudine Crabtree (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland): For travel to Singapore, Scotland, and England to study the impact school libraries are having on student literacy and their applicability in Aotearoa.
Grace Brown (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland): For travel to London to explore technology solutions that break down barriers to communication for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and neurodivergent communities.
Heather Lear (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland): For travel to Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia to investigate community-based assistance for families to help them support their children’s early communication and language development.
Jessica Buchanan (Rotorua): For travel to the United Kingdom to examine methods of delivering healthcare and training to remote areas without specialist oral health services.
Karla Sanders (Alexandra): For travel to the United Kingdom and the United States to engage with leading organisations that involve young people as partners in creating positive online experiences and addressing online harm, including cyberbullying.
Lisa Sheehan (Kirikiriroa Hamilton): For travel to Europe to examine and record Kaitaka Huaki in museum collections to reclaim a vital part of traditional Māori weaving techniques and disseminate them to art communities in New Zealand.
Wendy Robertson (Tauranga): For travel to Australia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland to study licensing processes, driver education, enforcement controls, and to improve licensing accessibility.
2025 Churchill McNeish Writers Fellowship
Pennie Hunt (Ōtepoti Dunedin): For travel to Tasmania to extend her creative non-fiction writing.
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