2006: Maria Zeiss
/For her research into the landscape and cultural complexity of Sardinia and Sicily, drawing and painting the landscape of the Southern Italian immigrant titled ‘Cross Cultures’.
Read More2004: Lucia Lancellotti
/For her archeological research, including the reconstruction through computer simulations of the ancient landscape in south-west Sardinia known as the Bay of Oristano, from the Late Bronze Age (300BC) to the present time.
Read More2003: Brenda Runnegar
/For her photographic and theme paintings of the contrasts between Sardinian ancient architectural structures and the Sardinian landscapes titled ‘Images of Sardinia’.
Read More2002: Kari Henriksen
/For her wide ranging theme paintings of the Sardinian land and seascape titled ‘Light, Water and Air’.
Read More2001: Alison Close
/For her study into the experiences of Sardinian migrant women in Melbourne, concluded in the form of a thesis titled ‘Remembered Places Are Ethnic Territory /Conversations With Sardinian Migrant Women.
Read More2012: Book launch
/Scholarship funds utilised to launch the book “Ajò in Australia – Let’s go to Australia”, documenting the results of the research conducted by Saberio Minutolo into Sardinian immigration in Victoria and the history of the Sardinian Cultural Association, held at the Italian Immigration Museum @ COASIT.
The book has been written by Pino Bosi, published by Grollo-Ruzzene Foundation via the Italian Australia Institute at La Trobe University with the support of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and launched by Aldo Aledda, Sardinian Historian in Melbourne for this special occasion.
Read More2010-2011: Pino Bosi
/For writing the yet to be named book based on the research into the history of Sardinian immigration in Victoria, including a general prelude on the surrounding circumstances, individual family stories, including the publication of such stories, as well as the history of the Sardinian Cultural Association.
Read More2008-2009: Saverio Minutolo
/For his extensive research into Sardinian Immigration in Victoria, including the documentation of individual personal stories as well as the history of the Sardinian Cultural Association.
Read More2007
/Funds utilised to launch the Project aimed at researching Sardinian immigration in Victoria and the history of the Sardinian Cultural Association, held in the "Galli Room" of the Assisi Centre in collabration with the Italian Australian Institute and the Italian Consul General of Melbourne, of which the results will be released in the form of a contemporary book.
Read More2009
/Funds utilised to further expand the Family Support Program which had successfully implemented in 2008 due to the fact that when the time comes for a mother, father, husband or wife to have no option but to move to residential aged care, the grief and guilt only compound to the confusion, anxiety and often pain to family members. The main focus of this Program is to help families prepare and deal with an approaching death along with the pastoral care support team. Once again the firm Bernie McCarthy and Associates provides professional counselling and information to families, as well as to individuals as needed.
Read More2008
/Funds utilised to implement a unique Family Support Program to assist families in dealing with the dislocation, grief and often guilt that usually occurs when an elderly parent or relative needs to enter residential aged care. The firm Bernie McCarthy and Associates Pty. Ltd., who is one of the most well-known and respected aged care psychologists, was engaged to provide professional counselling support services not just for new entrants but also to help families at time of significant decline in health of their loved one and through all palliative times including after death.
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