Bridget Vincent,pictured ,who was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar two years ago, has been awarded a 2006 General Sir John Monash Award in Australia for her pioneering work and leadership potential in the humanities field.
The Monash Awards are regarded as the Australian equivalent to the British Rhodes Scholarships and the American Fulbright Awards,and the recipients are outstanding young people doing pioneering work in their fields.From Mount Helen,Vic. Bridget has literature as her area of study. She wants to contribute to Australian public life by combining rigorous research and teaching in modernist literature with involvement in advocacy for the humanities and for greater interaction between universities and the communities that surround them. She would like to found a National Youth Humanities Forum in the future. She will use her Monash Award to complete a PhD in Arts-Literature at Cambridge University,where she will study writers as agents for social and political change.She has completed a Masters of Arts, a Bachelor of Arts (Hons)(both achieving First Class results) and a Diploma in Modern Languages – French.
She is a talented writer, debater, actor, performer and musician, and returned to Australia for the Monash Awards ceremony from France,where she was teaching English.
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