Kate Sheppard Memorial Trust Award
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The Kate Sheppard Memorial Trust Award is an award made annually on 19 September, known as Suffrage Day, in New Zealand. This day is the anniversary of women winning the right to vote in New Zealand in 1893.
The award commemorates the life of a leading New Zealand women's suffrage campaigner, Kate Sheppard, and was established by a group of women from Christchurch who had also commissioned the Kate Sheppard National Memorial.{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/katesheppardawar/|title=katesheppardaward|website=sites.google.com|access-date=13 March 2016}} Its aim is to assist a woman to develop her potential through study, research or training in an area of value to the community. Although the award is open to any woman, it has been noted that the large majority of applications come from university and polytechnic institute students.{{Cite web|url=http://www.epmu.org.nz/news/show/42902|title=Scholarship for union women|last=EPMU|date=16 November 2005|publisher=EPMU|access-date=15 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816102947/http://www.epmu.org.nz/news/show/42902|archive-date=16 August 2016|url-status=dead}}
File:Kate Sheppard, circa 1914. Photographer unidentified..jpg, circa 1914. Photographer unidentified.]]
The selection panel is made up of representatives of Christchurch City Council, National Council of Women, NZ Council of Trade Unions, Rural Women of New Zealand and YWCA.{{Cite web|url=http://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/student-finance/scholarships/find-scholarship/scholarship-detail?detailCode=801309|title=Scholarship detail|last=Wellington|first=Victoria University of|website=Victoria University of Wellington|access-date=13 March 2016}}
Recipients
- 2005 – Tessa Giblin
- 2006 – Lisa Woods
- 2007 – Maria Rowe
- 2008 – Fiona Shanhun, a 27-year-old PhD student at Lincoln University, who is researching Antarctica soils as a means of unravelling past climate conditions in the ice-free areas of the continent.{{Cite web|url=https://livingheritage.lincoln.ac.nz/nodes/view/244|title=2008 Annual Report Lincoln University|website=Lincoln University Living Heritage: Tikaka Tuku Iho|page=11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204231439/https://livingheritage.lincoln.ac.nz/nodes/view/244|archive-date=4 February 2019|access-date=6 July 2019}}
- 2009 – Bethany Edmunds, a Ngāti Kurī woman and a Masters of Art and Visual Culture: Costume Studies student at New York University.{{Cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10598326|title=Maori artist wins trust award|date=19 September 2009|newspaper=New Zealand Herald|access-date=15 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305062209/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10598326|archive-date=5 March 2017|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/whangarei-leader/2909003/Award-for-meticulous-student|title=Award for 'meticulous' student|website=Stuff|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706025019/http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/whangarei-leader/2909003/Award-for-meticulous-student|archive-date=6 July 2019|access-date=6 July 2019}}
- 2010 – Dr Sunyoung Ma, a 29-year-old senior lecturer at the University of Otago, who is researching the most ideal rehabilitation options for patients who have complete tooth loss.{{Cite book|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/sjwri/otago053797.pdf|title=Research Report of the Sir John Walsh Research Institute, 2009–2010|publisher=University of Otago|pages=62}}
- 2011 – Kimberley Twigden, a 22-year-old PhD student at the University of Auckland, who is researching a seismic resilient building system.
- 2012 – Helen Tsui, a clinical psychology student at the University of Otago, who was studying diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's disease.{{Cite web|url=http://www.otago.ac.nz/psychology/news/otago041114.html|title=Clinical Psychology Student awarded the Kate Sheppard Memorial Award, News & Events, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, New Zealand|website=www.otago.ac.nz|access-date=15 March 2016}}
- 2013 – Sylvia Nissen, a 23-year-old PhD student at the University of Canterbury, conducting research into the shaping of young people's political expression.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1309/S00198/trust-announces-successful-applicant.htm|title=Trust Announces Successful Applicant Scoop News|website=www.scoop.co.nz|access-date=13 March 2016}}
- 2014 – No award made
- 2015 – Dr Rashi Karunasinghe, a 27-year-old PhD graduate of the University of Auckland, who conducted research into stroke-related brain injuries.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1509/S00106/kate-sheppard-memorial-trust-announces-successful-applicant.htm|title=Kate Sheppard Memorial Trust Announces Successful Applicant Scoop News|website=www.scoop.co.nz|access-date=13 March 2016}}
- 2016 – Amber Maree Kale, a 27-year-old master's degree student at Victoria University, who is conducting a community-based research project where Wellington hosts create murals with former refugees to explore concepts of home, belonging, and visibility.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1609/S00296/kate-sheppard-memorial-trust-announces-successful-applicant.htm|title=Kate Sheppard Memorial Trust Announces Successful Applicant {{!}} Scoop News|website=www.scoop.co.nz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923231301/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1609/S00296/kate-sheppard-memorial-trust-announces-successful-applicant.htm|archive-date=23 September 2016|access-date=6 July 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/kate-sheppard-memorial-trust-award-winner-announced/|title=Kate Sheppard Memorial Trust Award winner announced|website=Newstalk ZB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920122708/http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/kate-sheppard-memorial-trust-award-winner-announced/|archive-date=20 September 2016|access-date=6 July 2019}}
- 2017 – No award made File:Kelly_Tikao_MRD.jpg, in February 2025]]
- 2018 – Kelly Waiana Tikao, a Registered Nurse and PhD student at the University of Canterbury, who is researching Kāi Tahu birthing traditions and practices related to conception, pregnancy and birth.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1809/S00223/kate-sheppard-memorial-trust-award.htm|title=Kate Sheppard Memorial Trust Award {{!}} Scoop News|website=www.scoop.co.nz|access-date=6 July 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://healthcentral.nz/suffrage-scholarship-for-traditional-maori-birthing-research/|title=Suffrage scholarship for traditional Māori birthing research {{!}} Health Central|website=Health Central|language=en-NZ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706010637/https://healthcentral.nz/suffrage-scholarship-for-traditional-maori-birthing-research/|archive-date=6 July 2019|access-date=6 July 2019}}
- 2019 – No award made
- 2020 – Laura Keenan, for PhD research on yield prediction tools for a national forage database.{{Cite web|title=2020 Recipient – katesheppardaward|url=https://sites.google.com/site/katesheppardawar/Home/2020-recipient|access-date=29 June 2021|website=sites.google.com}}
- 2021 – No award made due to economic conditions{{Cite web|title=katesheppardaward|url=https://sites.google.com/site/katesheppardawar/|access-date=29 June 2021|website=sites.google.com}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://sites.google.com/site/katesheppardawar/Home Official website]