15 Feb 2008 | Renee Criddle
PhD student wins prestigious Endeavour Award
Ground breaking research into the history of colonial domestic service in Singapore, Hong Kong and Darwin has resulted in University of Wollongong PhD student, Claire Lowrie, receiving an Endeavour Award worth $25,000.
The award is part of an internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program that forms part of the Australian Government’s $1.4 billion Australian Scholarships initiative.
The Endeavour Awards allow leading researchers, executives and students in Australia to travel abroad to undertake short or long term study, research and professional development in a broad range of disciplines. It also allows overseas researchers to travel to Australia for the same purposes.
Claire’s Endeavour Research Fellowship will allow her to spend four months in Singapore and Hong Kong examining the history of ‘houseboys’ in the British colonial sites of these countries. The project expands from her UOW doctorate thesis which also details the history of colonial domestic service in Darwin between 1890 and 1930.
“My project is one of only a few on male domestic service and British colonialism in Asia and the only one which is comparative,” she said. “Ultimately, I intended to write a book on the subject.”
During her time overseas, Claire will be affiliated with the Asia Research Institute (ARI) in Singapore and the Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC) in Hong Kong.
For further information: Contact Claire Lowrie on (02) 4221 5827
A high-resolution photo of Claire can be obtained by contacting Renee Criddle on (02) 4221 3290.
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