Bill Borthwick Student Scholarships 2025 - announced

VEAC received an outstanding range of applications for the Bill Borthwick Student Scholarships for 2025 and eligible fields of study encompassed natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, economics, law, and politics.

Bill Borthwick scholarships were introduced in March 2011 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the inaugural meeting of the Land Conservation Council (LCC) and to pay tribute to the vision of the Hon Bill Borthwick who played a key role in establishing the LCC to provide recommendations to the government regarding the utilisation of public land in Victoria. Click here for information on the five awarded scholarships

 For 2025, VEAC has awarded five scholarships, and the recipients are: 

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Rhys Healy, Federation University of Australia 

Holes to Recovery: Investigating Hollow Resources and Occupancy by Greater Gliders at the Limit of their Species Range

Isabella Martin, Deakin University 

Wildlife and camping in Victoria

Shuqiao Zhang,  University of Melbourne 

Assessing Fire Susceptibility of Alpine Ash Trees Under Different Management Scenarios

Victoria Schwarz,  Monash University 

Hydroclimate in the Wimmera catchment from the Quaternary to Anthropocene, SE Australia

Patrick Kennedy, University of Melbourne 

A palaeoecological analysis of fires, floods, and vegetation to inform Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung-led restoration of urban billabongs