Rotary-Alf Gillespie Bursary for Indigenous Australian Undergraduate Students

The Rotary-Alf Gillespie Bursary for Indigenous Australian Undergraduate Students is offered annually by the Tjabal Centre at the Australian National University. The bursary aims to encourage Indigenous Australian students to continue with tertiary education and to study their own culture and history. Funding for this award has been provided by members of the Rotary Club of Canberra in honour of Alf Gillespie, who was a Rotary District Governor and Community Activist. The award is available to continuing ANU students who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and are enrolled in the third year of a Bachelor degree program. Recipients must be taking courses with a focus on the study of Indigenous Australian culture such as Archaeology, Anthropology, History and/or Linguistics. Selection is made on the basis of academic merit, specifically the highest GPA achieved in the first two years of study at ANU. The bursary is paid in one instalment upon acceptance of the offer, and students are automatically considered based on meeting the eligibility criteria.