Georgina Duguid – Structural design engineer

Georgina Duguid – Structural design engineer

2018 Playford Trust Honours Scholarship
Having completed my Bachelor of Civil Engineering at Flinders University in 2018, I am working as a structural design engineer with Mineral Technologies/Downer EDI – the company…

Michael Dello-Lacovo – Space scientist

Michael Dello-Lacovo – Space scientist

2014 AusIMM/Playford Trust Honours Scholar
I received the AusIMM/Playford Trust Scholarship for my Honours degree in geophysics in 2014 for the thesis topic ‘heat flow and geothermal energy in South Australia’….

Kate Delaporte – Curator, Waite Arboretum

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

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

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

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…