Impact of Your Support

In 1964, College fees were the equivalent of $648, now they’re $30,000 a year. For a student this is pretty hard. But I’ve been able to make ends meet due to a College scholarship funded by a past student valued at half the yearly fees, along with the money I earn from a weekend job. I am so grateful to be here. College is like a family that looks after me, everyone here is like my best friend. I feel so at home and it’s helped me grow as a person. I can now pursue my dream and study Biomedicine at the University of Melbourne, and hopefully one day find a cure for malaria!

The plan was to stay at St. Hilda’s College as a resident tutor for one-year.  I stayed for seven, that's approximately a quarter of my life living at the college.  After finishing my Master of Engineering, in 2013 I enrolled into PhD research in the fields of earthquake and structural engineering.  It has been quite a journey, lots of highs and lots of lows, but I certainly could not have gotten through it without the support I received from St. Hilda’s College.  I was fortunate to be the recipient of the Pam Todd Scholarship twice, which helped support some experimental research outside of my PhD. I was also fortunate to receive a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, which will fund a one-year postdoctoral research programme working at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics laboratory. The friendship and support at St. Hilda’s College has been invaluable and life changing.

A Communitas thank you to all our supporters for your gifts large and small. 

Your donations make a difference and change lives for the better. Through your generosity our students have an opportunity to be, become, belong and achieve. 

Grateful thanks to The Miller Family for supporting the College for over 50 years.