Alumni – Where are they now?
We love to hear from our alumni – and to share their career news and successes.
Below is a collection of short updates from some past Playford Trust scholars. We think they perfectly illustrate the ongoing value of receiving a Playford Trust scholarship or award. As we are so often told, it’s about so much more than the financial support…
If you’re one of our former scholars, please let us know where your work and studies have taken you. Just email an update and photo to admin@playfordtrust.com.au
Kate Delaporte – Curator, Waite Arboretum
1996 Playford Trust PhD Scholarship
Kate was only the third student to receive a Playford Trust scholarship. Now she’s Curator of SA’s Waite Arboretum and Senior Lecturer at the Waite Campus of the University of Adelaide…
Daniel Osborne – Brewing with Coopers
2016 Coopers Brewery/Playford Trust Honours Scholarship
My scholarship allowed me to continue studying and complete an Honours degree at the University of Adelaide’s Waite campus, focusing on improving steep conditions during the malting process. My relationship with Coopers blossomed into a career at the brewery…
Jillian Moffatt – Minerals and fluoresence
2015 Scantech/Playford Trust PhD
Jillian completed her doctorate on fluorescence identification of minerals in 2020. Since then she has worked at the University of Adelaide on multiple projects….
Nicholas Booth – Sustainable agriculture
2018 Playford Trust Honours Scholarship
Every year the agricultural industry applies close to 100 million tonnes of nitrogen fertilisers to cropping systems, this comes with high costs and is a major source of pollution…
Thomas de la Perrelle – Engineer at Frazer-Nash Consultancy
2019 Nyrstar/Playford Trust Scholarship
I am a mechanical engineer and physics graduate from the University of Adelaide, and am currently working as an engineer for Frazer-Nash Consultancy. Throughout my university studies…
Cathy Apps – Landscape designer
2018 Playford Trust/TAFE SA award
Cathy completed her studies at Urrbrae TAFE and now runs a successful landscape design business – Catnik Design Studio – in Adelaide. She used her SA award….