Another 14 prestigious university scholarships have been awarded by the Playford Trust – this time to STEM students headed for careers in South Australia’s vital resources industry.
Key industry players, the State Government and the Trust are backing a five-year program to help ease a shortage of key skills in the sector, which contributes 50% of the State’s export income and is described as key to the nation’s technological future.
2017 Playford Trust PhD Scholarship
Robbie is now working as a Research Fellow at the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute (AITI) – a national leader in industry and workplace innovation research – and he’s based at Flinders University.
2018 Codan/Playford Trust Engineering Scholarship
The year after winning his scholarship, Alex joined the company that sponsored him – Codan/Minelab Electronics. There he used mathematical modelling to optimise the geometry of metal detector coils.
2018 Playford Trust/TAFE SA Award
At the time Joe received his Playford Trust Award, he was employing just two staff in his arborist business, Adelaide Hills Tree Services. Now there are 10 on the team…
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…
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…