Rosemary Seymour Award 2006

Congratulations to recipients of the 2006 Rosemary Seymour awards.

In addition to the two $500 awards, the judges were empowered this year to grant up to four runner-up awards of $250. Applications were of a high standard and all four awards were granted, in the general category.

Diana Eivers won the Maori award with a study aimed at encouraging Maori women to seek and win election to local government authorities.

Isabel Haarhaus won the general award. She has just completed a doctoral thesis on the novels of Janet Frame and is completing an article on some methodological aspects of her work for an edited volume on Frame.

The four runners up awards were made to Kelly Campbell, Bronwyn Lloyd, Nicola Robertson and Melanie Turner. Kelly works in the community with single mothers and her project involves writing up interviews on the realities of their lives. Bronwyn is undertaking doctoral research analysing Rita Angus’s Goddess Paintings. Nicola is part of an oral history project to record stories of the Methven community who served at home and abroad during World War Two, and the award will enable her to record more women’s stories. Melanie is completing a Masters thesis on barrier to women’s entry into skilled trade occupations.