Roberta Sykes Scholarship

The criteria for the Roberta Sykes Scholarships reflect the strong community and activist roots of the foundation Roberta set up.  While we are looking for outstanding Indigenous scholars who will be role models for Indigenous communities, the Roberta Sykes Scholarships calls for more.  Our mission is to support scholars who will return from their overseas studies with a commitment to ‘give back’ to their community. We have no fixed ideas on how you should go about ‘giving back’, what courses are going to better advance the interests of indigenous communities, or whether this is better done in public or private sector on your return.  We are open to imaginative, novel and ambitious ideas.  We have supported students to study in education, environmental, law, arts, history, health, architecture and scientific courses. 

You will need to provide supporting evidence for your identification as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.  You also will need to show us a material level of contribution to community to date.   You may be proposing to use your overseas study to bolster the way you currently contribute, or you may be planning to strike out in new directions.  Whichever is the case, what you have contributed to date will helps us assess the strength and viability of your plans to contribute to community on your return.